CSK restricted KKR to 137, Ravindra Jadeja shined

IPL 2024, CSK vs KKR: Chennai Super Kings have restricted Kolkata Knight Riders to the score of 137 in the first innings. Ravindra Jadeja And Tushar Deshpande Gave a big blow to KKR by taking three wickets each. Despite a great start, KKR failed to post a big score on the Chepauk ground. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored the maximum 34 runs for KKR. Sunil Narayan played an inning of 27 runs. 24 runs came from the bat of Angkrish Raghuvanshi. To win this match, CSK will now have to score 138 runs in 20 overs, which does not seem too difficult.

IPL 2024: Jadeja took 3 important wickets

Ravindra Jadeja turned the tide of KKR’s innings with the wickets of Angkrish Raghuvanshi (24 runs in 18 balls), Sunil Narine (27 runs in 20 balls) and Venkatesh Iyer (three runs) in his first two overs. Jadeja got good support from Tushar Deshpande (three wickets for 33 runs in four overs), Mustafizur Rahman (two wickets for 22 runs in four overs) and Mahish Tikshana (28 runs for one wicket in four overs). For KKR, captain Shreyas Iyer scored the highest score of 34 runs in 32 balls. Deshpande gave a great start to Chennai by dismissing Phil Salt (0) on the very first ball of the innings. Jadeja took a brilliant catch in the point area.

Rohit Sharma missed half-century, but registered a big record in his name

IPL 2024: Sunil Narayan hits the first six of the innings

However, it had no effect on Narayan and young batsman Radhuvanshi. Both of them scored fast runs against CSK bowlers and completed half-century partnership in just 29 balls. During this, Narayan hit the first six of the innings against Deshpande, while both the batsmen hit Tikshana’s ball into the audience in the fifth over. After the powerplay, the team’s score was 56 runs for one wicket. Jadeja, who came to bowl in the seventh over, broke the 56-run partnership by showing both the batsmen the way to the pavilion.

IPL 2024: Rinku Singh’s bat did not work

He gave double success to CSK by trapping Raghuvanshi LBW on his first ball and then getting Narayan caught by Teekshana. Even Venkatesh Iyer could not do well with the bat. Ramandeep Singh (13 runs) hit a six off Teekshana’s ball to increase the run rate in the 12th over but was bowled on the next ball. Shreyas Iyer and Rinku Singh were also seen struggling to score runs at a fast pace due to which the team completed the hundred runs in the 16th over. Shreyas ended the 25-ball boundary drought by hitting a four in this over of Shardul Thakur, who was playing his first match in the current season for CSK.