Chennai defeated Lucknow by 12 runs.

In the sixth game of the Indian Premier League-16, four-time champion Chennai Super Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by a score of 12 runs. After almost four years, the team was back at Chepauk, where it had previously played. In this match, the Yellow Army has won 19 out of the previous 22 games.

With this victory, Chennai’s team has caught up to Lucknow in the head-to-head competition. The two had already played once before. The winner of the first game was Lucknow.

three crucial moments in the game

The Chennai opening pair’s century partnership CSK’s opening pair gave the team a strong start by partnering for a century. On 56 balls, Devon Conway and Rituraj Gaikwad combined for a partnership of 110 runs. These two had now combined for three centuries in nine innings.

turning over 10th place to Ravi Bishnoi KL Rahul, the captain of Lucknow, put off bowling to Ravi Bishnoi. The 10th over was his opportunity to bowl. In his four bowling over, Ravi took three wickets for 28 runs. After the powerplay, he could have been bowled. Mark Wood also scored three goals, but Wood needed to use 49 runs.

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Moin Ali secured four wickets. Moin Ali delivered precise bowls. First, he ended the opening duo by ejecting Kyle Mayer, the Lucknow opener. (53 runs). KL Rahul (20 runs) was then forced to walk as well. Additionally, he destroyed the middle of the order by ejecting Marcus Stoinis and Krunal Pandya (9 runs). (21 runs). The remaining work was completed by Mitchell Santner and Tushar Deshpande.

Report on the game…

Chennai got off to a good start thanks to the third century partnership between Rituraj Gaikwad and Dwayne Conway and two sixes by MS Dhoni in the final over. 110 runs were scored in their opening partnership, which took 56 balls. In nine innings, this is their third century partnership. Conway was out for 47 while Gaikwad scored his second consecutive fifty in the current campaign (57 off 31 balls). After the openers, the team’s total rose to 217 runs thanks to runs of 27 by Shivam Dubey and Ambati Rayudu and two consecutive sixes by Dhoni in the final over. Lucknow lost 3-3 wickets thanks to Mark Wood and Ravi Bishnoi.

Lucknow made a strong start in pursuing the target. The team’s opening pair combined for 79 runs off of 35 balls, but Moin Ali dismissed Mayer before the partnership could become dangerous. Following Mayer’s firing, Captain KL Rahul was also let go. Marcus Stoinis (age 21), Nicholas Pooran (age 32), and centre Ayush Badoni then made an unsuccessful attempt to avert defeat by scoring 23 runs.

Kyle Meyers reached his second consecutive half-century with a score of 53 off 22 balls. He has set a new record for the IPL by scoring fifty points in each of the first two games. Chennai’s Moin Ali claimed four wickets.

For the 24th time, Chennai scored 200 or more.

Chennai has scored 200 or more for the 24th time while batting first after losing the toss.

The batsman who hit the most balls in the final over, Dhoni, scored two sixes.

When Mark Wood bowled the final over, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit two consecutive sixes on the ball. He is the batsman who scored the most sixes in an IPL game’s final over.

Dhoni scores 5,000 runs in the IPL.

With the aid of two sixes in the span of three balls, Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 12 runs in Chepauk. Additionally, he scored 5,000 runs in the IPL. He did so as the fifth Indian and seventh player overall. For this, Dhoni played 237 matches. In the very first over of his innings, Dhoni hit both of his sixes. In the IPL’s 20th over, he leads the list of players with the most sixes hit. In all, he has 55 sixes in his name. Following him, Hardik Pandya has 25 sixes, Ravindra Jadeja has 26, and Kieron Pollard has 33 sixes. Rohit Sharma, the captain of the Mumbai Indians, comes in at number five on this list with 23 sixes.

Powerplay’s start is explosive

After losing the toss, Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway gave CSK an explosive start by choosing to bat first. In 6 powerplay overs, both scored 79 runs without conceding a run. This is Chepauk’s largest powerplay score in history. In their previous match against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2018, CSK scored 75 runs.

In place of Unadkat, Yash Thakur was given a chance.

As opposed to Dhoni’s Chennai, Lucknow gave Yash Thakur a chance in place of Jaydev Unadkat.