In the Indian Premier League 2022 (IPL 2022), Mumbai Indians (MI) beat Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 5 wickets in a thrilling low-scoring match on Thursday, thanks to a brilliant performance by the bowlers. In the match between the teams ranked 9th and 10th in the points table, Chennai’s hopes of survival in the tournament also ended with this defeat. Due to this, two of the most successful teams of IPL have been eliminated from the tournament. Mumbai bowlers bundled out Chennai for 97 runs in 16 overs. After this, the team led by Rohit Sharma scored 103 runs for five wickets in 14.5 overs to get the third victory. Let’s know the 5 main reasons for Chennai’s defeat
not getting DRS– In the match played at Wankhede Stadium, Chennai team had to bear the brunt of non-availability of DRS due to power failure in the opening overs. Devon Conway (nil) was done lbw by Daniel Sams and Robin Uthappa (a) by Jasprit Bumrah, but both could not take the DRS. After Uthappa returned to the pavilion, the umpires told about the non-availability of DRS. DRS was not available due to short circuit. Television replays after Conway’s dismissal showed that the ball was passing away from the leg-stump by a considerable margin.
Half the team returned to the pavilion in the powerplay Chennai’s team had lost 5 wickets for 32 runs in the powerplay i.e. in the first six overs. Daniel Sams dismissed Rituraj Gaikwad, Devon Conway and Moeen Ali. Robin Uthappa was sent to the pavilion by Jasprit Bumrah and Ambati Rayudu by Riley Meredith.
Brilliant catch from Ishan Kishan- Mumbai wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan took a brilliant catch of Shivam Dubey. Riley Meredith bowled the third ball of the eighth over of Chennai’s innings. Which the left-handed batsman wanted to cut. The ball hit the upper part of the bat and Kishan took a brilliant catch with both hands while jumping. If this ball had gone over him, Chennai would have got a four comfortably. Shivam Dubey returned to the pavilion after scoring 10 runs.
Dhoni did not get along- Chennai’s team was struggling for the loss of 4 wickets for 17 runs in 4 overs when Mahendra Singh Dhoni came to bat. He scored an unbeaten 36 off 33 balls. This included 4 fours and 2 sixes. Dhoni held on to one end and the rest of the batsmen kept getting out. They did not get along with anyone.
Bravo’s dismissal When Chennai’s team was struggling after losing 6 wickets for 39 runs in 7.3 overs, then Dwayne Bravo came to support Dhoni. A good partnership was flourishing between the two. There was a partnership of 39 runs in 29 balls between the two. It seemed that both would take Chennai to a respectable score, when Bravo Kumar became the victim of Karthikeya after scoring 12 runs in the second ball of the 13th over and Chennai’s hopes were shattered.