MS Dhoni: He had come to give me a farewell… Mahi made another gesture with a smile, can retire anytime – ms dhoni says eden gardens crowd came to give me a farewell after defeating kkr in ipl 2023

Kolkata: ‘Many thanks to the Eden Gardens crowd. All of them had come to bid me farewell.’… These were the words of Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the victory over Kolkata Knight Riders last night in the 16th season of IPL. This historic ground in Kolkata was packed to the brim with its local team KKR as well as Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Batting first in the match, Chennai scored the biggest T20 score i.e. 235 runs on this ground. In response, CSK’s team was reduced to 188 runs at the loss of eight wickets and remained 49 runs away from victory. After the match was over, the fans who reached the ground stayed till late night to hear Dhoni’s voice in the award ceremony. Mahi thanked the fans and told in gestures that now as a player he might not play the next match on this ground i.e. his IPL retirement is going to come soon. Dhoni said after the match, ‘Yes, fast bowlers and spinners are doing their job well. We always put pressure on the opposition and if you look at their batting order, they have big hitters lower down the order and we respect that.

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When important players like Ben Stokes and Deepak Chahar are injured, he says, ‘I keep it simple. Whoever is injured cannot do anything. I look at who looks better prepared and I look at who can take a chance and inspire. I hope it continues.

Knight Riders captain Nitish Rana admitted that it was not easy to chase such a big target due to not getting a good start. Rana said, ‘We did not have a good start. We scored very few runs in the powerplay and after scoring so few runs in the powerplay, it is not easy to chase such a big target. Ajinkya (Rahane) once again played a brilliant inning.

Rana said that his team is not taking lessons from its mistakes and is constantly repeating mistakes. He said, ‘Our team is not learning from its mistakes. We are repeating the same mistakes against such big teams in such a big tournament which is a problem. We are not improving our performance in the tournament. It is difficult to digest that 235 runs were scored on this pitch.

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