Leader Online Desk: Chasing Chennai's 213-run challenge, Hyderabad's innings ended on 134 runs. In bowling, Tushar Deshpande played an important role in Chennai's victory by taking the maximum 4 wickets.
Earlier, Chennai Super Kings posted 212 for 3 in 20 overs on the back of captain Rituraj Gaikwad's 98 and Daryl Mitchell's 52. Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bowl first and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave Chennai the first blow by dismissing opener Ajinkya Rahane. After this, Rituraj and Daryl Mitchell put on a brilliant batting partnership of 107 runs for the second wicket and saved the team's innings. Gaikwad hit his third half-century of the season.
However, Jaydev Unadkat ended the partnership by dismissing Darryl Mitchell. Mitchell hit seven fours and one six in his 32-ball innings. After this Shivam Dubey gave good support to Gaikwad. Gaikwad continued his aggressive innings from the other end and came close to scoring his second consecutive century. However, T. Natarajan stopped Gaikwad from scoring a century by dismissing him on the second ball of the last over. Gaikwad hit 10 fours and 3 sixes in 54 balls. After this, Dhoni entered the field and was given a warm welcome by the Chennai crowd.
Shivam Dubey also batted aggressively and returned unbeaten after scoring 39 runs off 20 balls with the help of one four and four sixes. Dhoni also remained unbeaten after scoring five runs off two balls with the help of a four. Gaikwad and Mitchell helped CSK build a strong score. With this, CSK became the team to score more than 200 runs in T20s. CSK scored more than 200 runs for the 35th time in T20 cricket and in this case surpassed English county club Somerset, who have scored more than 200 runs in T20s 34 times.
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— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) April 28, 2024
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