New Delhi. In every season of the Indian Premier League, there is talk about Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s retirement, but every time he answers the question with his batting. This season, something similar happened in the match between the current champions Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, after which the talks of his retirement are going to be postponed for one more season. Coming in the last over, the former Chennai captain scored runs at a strike rate of 500 and the team won against Mumbai by the same number of runs he scored.
Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by entering their own home. Batting first after losing the toss, the team scored 206 runs for 4 wickets on the basis of fifties of captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shivam Dubey. Former Mumbai team captain Rohit Sharma played a brilliant century but he could not lead the team to victory. The team could reach only 186 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned the match on 4 balls
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shivam Dubey took Chennai Super Kings team past 180 runs but the score of 200 was crossed due to the sixes of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. When the former captain stepped onto the field after the fall of the third wicket, only 4 balls were left in the innings. Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya had the ball in his hands and Dhoni hit three consecutive sixes on three balls and then took 2 runs on the last ball.
Mumbai lost by as many runs as Dhoni scored.
Against Mumbai Indians, former Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 20 runs with three consecutive sixes and 2 runs in 4 balls. The amazing thing is that Mumbai scored 186 runs for 6 wickets and Chennai won the match by 20 runs. If Mahendra Singh Dhoni had not scored these 20 runs, perhaps the result would have been different. The runs scored by this stalwart made the difference in the match.
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Tags: Hardik Pandya, IPL 2024, ms dhoni
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 15, 2024, 05:46 IST