Image credit: News Nation
Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians in the 49th match of IPL 2023. This is Chennai's second win over Mumbai this season. Earlier, Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings won the first match at Wankhede Stadium by 7 wickets. In the match at Chepauk on Saturday, CSK bowled first and allowed Mumbai to score 139 runs in 20 overs. Chennai achieved this target easily. With this victory, Chennai Super Kings reached second place in the points table. Now CSK has 13 points.
Image Credit: oneindia Hindi
In the match against Mumbai Indians, Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bowl first. Tushar Deshpande gave the first blow to Mumbai. He dismissed Cameron Green in the second over. In the third over, Deepak Chahar gave a double blow to Mumbai Indians. He showed the path of the pavilion to Ishaan Kishan on the first ball of his over and Rohit Sharma on the fifth ball. Rohit could not even open the account. This was the second consecutive match when Rohit was dismissed for zero. Rohit got out for a duck in IPL for the 16th time. Mumbai Indians scored 34 runs in the powerplay and lost 3 wickets.
Image Credit: thecricket lounge
Nehal Wadhera and Suryakumar Yadav definitely opened their hands and played an important role in helping the team reach the score of 139 runs. Vadhera played an inning of 64 balls in 51 balls. Deepak Chahar took 2 wickets and Tushar Deshpande also took 2 wickets for Chennai. Mathisha Pathirana got a maximum of 3 wickets. Chennai had lost 2 out of the last three matches and the last match against Lucknow Super Giants was washed out due to rain. In such a situation, victory in this match was necessary for Chennai.
