MI vs CSK Highlights: Mumbai Indians proved to be a letdown in IPL’s El Clasico, Chennai Super Kings hit home – csk thrashed mumbai indians at wankhede stadium

Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings have won the first El Clasico of IPL 2023. Four-time champions Chennai defeated 5-time champions Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium. Opting to bat first, Mumbai got off to a brisk start but Chennai came back on the back of left-arm spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Mitchell Santner’s spin. Mumbai scored 157 runs for 8 wickets. Chennai achieved the target by losing 3 wickets in the 18th over. This is the second consecutive win for Dhoni’s team. At the same time, Mumbai lost the second match in a row. Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Joffra Archer could not play this match due to fitness issues.

Chahar injured in the first over

Chennai were jolted by an injury to key pacer Deepak Chahar in the opening over of the match but Jadeja and Santner bowled tight in the middle overs, sharing five wickets between them to put Mumbai on the backfoot. Jadeja took three for 20 in four overs and Santner took two for 28 in the same over. Tushar Deshpande (31 runs in three overs) took two and IPL debutant Sisanda Magala (37 runs in four overs) took one wicket. Ishan Kishan top-scored for Mumbai with 32 off 21 balls while Tim David scored 31 off 22 balls.

Mumbai had made a fast start

In the 1000th match of IPL history, captain Rohit Sharma and Kishan gave Mumbai Indians an aggressive start by sharing a 38-run partnership in the first four overs. Rohit (21 off 13 balls) hit a total of three fours against Deepak and Deshpande in the first two overs while Kishan welcomed Magala with three fours in the third over. After the powerplay, Mumbai’s score was 61 runs for one wicket. Mahendra Singh Dhoni handed the ball to Jadeja in the seventh over and the experienced bowler had Kishan caught by Pretorius.

middle order did not work

In the next over, Dhoni continued Suryakumar Yadav’s poor form by taking a brilliant catch off the bowling of Mitchell Santner. After this, Jadeja caught an excellent catch of Cameron Green (12 runs in 11 balls) on his ball, while Santner trapped Arshad Khan. In this way, Mumbai lost four wickets within 12 runs. Tilak Verma, who scored a half-century for Mumbai in the last match, hit a six against Jadeja in the 13th over to complete his team’s hundred, but became the third victim of Jadeja’s third ball when he was lbw on the next ball.

Tristan Stubbs (five runs in 10 balls) became Magala’s first victim in the IPL in the 16th over. Tim David (31 off 22 balls) tried to make a comeback for Mumbai by hitting two sixes and a four against Deshpande in the next over but was caught by Ajinkya Rahane in the process of playing another big shot. In the last over, Hrithik Shokin (18 not out in 12 balls) hit three fours against Pretorius to bring Mumbai’s score to a respectable score.

Rahane’s explosive batting

Mumbai Indians started well with the ball. In the very first over, Jason Behrendorff bowled Devon Conway. But what happened after this was probably not even expected by Chennai Super Kings. Ajinkya Rahane, who landed at number three, started explosive batting. He hit 4 fours and a six in the fourth over against Arshad Khan. Running out of Team India on 19 balls, Rahane completed the fastest fifty of the season.

Rahane was dismissed by Piyush Chawla. Even after this, Rituraj kept handling one end. He made a partnership of 43 runs with Shivam Dubey. In the end, adding 34 runs with Ambati Rayudu took the team to the target. Rayudu remained unbeaten on 20 and Rituraj scored 40 runs.

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