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Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 20 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Sunday. Mumbai won the toss and chose to bowl first at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Chennai scored 206 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. Mumbai could score only 186 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.
MS Dhoni scored 20 not out by hitting 3 sixes in the last 4 balls. At the same time, Mathish Pathirana took 4 important wickets, he bowled Romario Shepherd with an excellent yorker. Rohit Sharma, who scored a century, gave life to Rituraj Gaikwad.
Moments of CSK vs MI match….
1. Rohit gave life to Gaikwad
Rohit Sharma gave life to Rituraj Gaikwad. During the 12th over of CSK’s innings, Ruturaj Gaikwad slogged the ball of Akash Madhwal towards deep mid-wicket. The ball going in the air was close to Rohit. Rohit dived to catch the ball. However, despite many efforts, the ball did not come into his hands and he could not complete the catch. At the time of Jeevandan, Gaikwad was on 40 runs, he played an inning of 69 runs.
Rohit Sharma dropped the catch of Rituraj Gaikwad.
2. Dhoni gave the ball to the fan
While returning to the pavilion, MS Dhoni gave the ball that had fallen on the stairs to the fan. When he was going back to the pavilion after playing an innings of 20 runs in 4 balls, he gave the match ball as a gift to a little girl present in the stand.
MS Dhoni gave the ball to the little fan sitting on his shoulder in the blue jersey seen in the photo.
3. Dhoni hit three sixes on three balls as soon as he came on the pitch.
MS Dhoni hit 3 sixes in the last 4 balls of CSK’s innings. Hardik Pandya was bowling the last over. Dhoni came to bat after the wicket of Daryl Mitchell on the second ball. Dhoni hit a six over long-off on the first ball. After this Dhoni hit a flat six over long on. Dhoni made a hat-trick of sixes by hitting a six on deep square leg in front of a full toss on the third ball.
MS Dhoni hit 3 sixes in 4 balls. He became the first Indian batsman in IPL to hit three sixes as soon as he came into the innings.
4. Mustafizur Rahman took a juggling catch
Mustafizur Rahman took a brilliant juggling catch at the boundary. Due to this catch, Suryakumar Yadav was out on the score of zero runs. During MI’s run chase in the eighth over, Mathish Pathirana bowled a short length ball, Suryakumar played an upper cut over the fielder at third man.
Mustafizur, standing at third man, tossed the ball in the air, then came in outside the boundary and completed the catch.
This was Mustafizur Rahman’s first catch of the season.
5. Rohit missed the catch from Tushar Deshpande
Rohit Sharma’s catch was missed by Chennai Super Kings player Tushar Deshpande. On the second ball of the 11th over, Rohit played a big shot on the leg side in front of Jadeja. Tushar Deshpande who was fielding came there. The ball passed through his hands and crossed the boundary line and Rohit got a lease of life.
Tushar gave life to Rohit on the score of 65 runs, Rohit scored a century.
6. Pathirana bowled Shepherd
CSK pacer Mathish Pathirana bowled Romario Shepherd. Pathirana threw the third ball of the 18th over forward, Shepherd did not understand the ball and the ball went straight between his bat and pad and hit the stumps. Pathirana had earlier bowled Mitchell Marsh and Tristan Stubbs in a similar manner against Delhi.
Romario Shepherd could score only 1 run in 2 balls.
7. Rohit completed his century by hitting a four
Former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma completed his second century in IPL by hitting a four. On the third ball of the 20th over, Rohit completed his century by hitting a four towards extra cover. He played an unbeaten inning of 105 runs on 63 balls.
Rohit Sharma scored IPL century 12 years after 2012 i.e. in 2024.