New Delhi. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have returned to winning ways by stopping Vijayarath of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024. Ruturaj Gaikwad’s team CSK defeated KKR in a competitive match on Monday. Kolkata Knight Riders had reached Chennai with a hat-trick of wins, but CSK dashed their hopes of a fourth win. With this victory, Chennai Super Kings has 6 points in the points table. He is at fourth position in the points table. Rajasthan Royals is at number one with 8 points.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and bowled first at MS Chidambaram Stadium. Chennai bowlers proved captain Ruturaj Gaikwad’s decision right and restricted Kolkata Knight Riders to 137 for 9 wickets. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored the maximum 34 runs for KKR. Sunil Narine scored 27 runs and Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 24 runs. Ramandeep Singh was out after scoring 13 runs, Andre Russell after scoring 10 runs and Rinku Singh after scoring 9 runs.
Rituraj played captaincy innings
The target of 138 runs was never considered difficult in IPL and never when dew was falling. This was also visible in the batting of Chennai Super Kings. Its captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (67) scored a brilliant fifty. He scored most of his runs with delicacy rather than power. As long as Shivam Dubey (28), Daryl Mitchell (25) and Rachin Ravindra (15) remained at the crease, it never seemed that they were facing any problem in scoring runs. Chennai Super Kings won this match by losing 3 wickets in 17.4 overs. When CSK won the match, 14 balls of its innings were still to be bowled. This is KKR’s first defeat in IPL 2024.
Jadeja-Tushar took 3-3 wickets
Tushar Pandey and Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets each for Chennai Super Kings. Tushar, who brought the first over, dismissed KKR opener Phil Salt on his very first ball. Jadeja also took a wicket on his first ball. He dismissed Angkrish Raghuvanshi on the first ball of his first over. Jadeja also took the wicket of Sunil Narine in the same over.
Purple cap named after Rahman
Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman took 2 wickets in his name. With this he also won the Orange Cap. Rahman has taken maximum 9 wickets in the tournament. Yuzvendra Chahal is at second place with 8 wickets. Mohit Sharma, Khalil Ahmed and Coetzee are jointly at third place in this list with 7 wickets each.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 8, 2024, 23:03 IST