IPL 2024 CSK vs KKR: The 22nd match of IPL 2024 was played between the teams of Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. In this match, Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets. This is the third win of CSK team this season. In this match for CSK, Ruturaj Gaikwad played a captaincy innings and ended a wait that had been going on for 5 years.
Ruturaj Gaikwad played captaincy innings
Ruturaj Gaikwad played an unbeaten inning of 67 runs on 58 balls in this match. The CSK captain hit 9 fours in his brilliant innings. At the same time, Ruturaj Gaikwad became the second captain of Chennai Super Kings to score a half-century in IPL. Earlier, only MS Dhoni could achieve this feat as captain for Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni had scored 21 half-centuries as captain for CSK.
The 5 year long wait is over
With this inning, Ruturaj Gaikwad also ended a special wait of 5 years for the fans of Chennai Super Kings. Actually, this was the first time in the last 5 years when the Chennai Super Kings captain scored a half-century in the IPL. Earlier, MS Dhoni had scored a half-century for CSK as captain in the year 2019.
CSK team registered an easy victory
In this match, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bowl first. His decision proved correct. The bowlers of Chennai Super Kings put the KKR team under pressure with the very first ball of the match, due to which KKR, batting first, gave the target of 138 runs to the CSK team. Chennai Super Kings achieved this target at the loss of 3 wickets only. Apart from Gaikwad for CSK, Daryl Mitchell scored 25 runs in 19 balls. Shivam Dubey batted stormily and contributed 28 runs in 18 balls. Whereas, Rachin Ravindra could score only 15 runs in this match.
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