Chennai Super Kings played their first match in the home game of the 11th edition of Indian Premier League. And yet again they won the match after delivering a stunning performance.
First Chennai Super Kings won the opening match after their thrilling performance and in the just concluded match as well, CSK won the match against KKR by 5 wickets.
As CSK was playing in the home city, the stadium was filled with a huge crowd and a sea of yellow can be seen supporting MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings. A flood of happiness went across the stadium when CSK won the match after the nail biting end.
Before the match started, MS Dhoni won the toss and choose to bowl first. The Kolkata Knight Riders players gave a stunning performance and gave Chennai Super Kings the target of 202 runs.
Chris Lynn scored 22 runs in 16 Balls. Sunil Narine had just started giving one thrilling performance, he scored 12 runs in 4 balls including two hit maximums but soon Harbhajan Singh dismissed him. Nitish Rana scored 16 runs in 14 balls including 2 fours, Robin Uthappa scored 29 runs in 16 balls with the strike rate of 119, he smashed 2 fours and 3 sixes and Rinku Singh scored only 2 runs before Dinesh Karthik and Andre Russell came and took over the match by storm.
Andre Russell gave a thrilling performance, he came like a hurricane and scored 88 runs in just 36 balls including 11 sixes and 1 four.
During the second innings, it was the performance of Billings that took everyone’s heart. With the strike rate of 243 he scored 56 runs in 23 balls which included 5 sixes and 2 fours.
Apart from Billings it was, Shane Watson who showed an amazing display of perfection on the ground. He scored 42 runs in 19 balls with the strike rate of 221. The winning shot was played by Ravindra Jadega, who scored 11 runs in 7 balls which included the winning sixer.
This nail biting match was worth watching it in every way. After the match, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the skipper of Chennai Super Kings was asked to speak about the match.
Here’s what he said after winning the match:
“It feels good to come back after two years and win the first game. I think it was a fantastic game. They deserved every bit of it; the first innings and the second innings. Everyone has their emotions and we tell everybody to keep it under control. We need to have the faith in the batsman who is batting or the bowler who is bowling.
At the end of the day, there is one man to bat that particular delivery and bowl that particular over. Lot of positive energy helps. It does. At times you feel disappointed, but that’s why the dressing room is there to express yourself and not in the dugout.
We all feel the same. If we are too expresseive, the commentators get a lot to talk about. Yes. But every game one player is getting injured. By that calculation we will not have 14 players at the end of the league other than that it is good to see Sam bat the way he did.”
Further in his statement he forced on the changes that he wants to see in the IPL. According to him, the sixes that are hit out of the grounds should be declared as ‘8 runs’ instead of 6. Here’s what he said:
“Somehow still feel that KKR scored more than us because with all those sixes. IPL should add two more runs for sixes hit out of the ground. Bowlers had a rough dayfrom both the sides, but overall it was a good day for the crowd over here.”
Well, we really wonder if this is possible.
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