Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in their 11th match in IPL 2023. With this victory, the Chennai team has reached the second position in the points table with 13 points. At the same time, Mumbai's team is in sixth place with five wins and five losses in 10 matches. Batting first in this match, Mumbai scored 139 runs losing eight wickets. In response, Chennai scored 140 runs in 17.4 overs losing four wickets and won the match by six wickets with 14 balls to spare.
Nehal Wadhera scored 64 runs for Mumbai in this match. There itself, Devon Conway scored 44 and Rituraj scored 30 for Chennai. Chennai's Mathisha Pathirana did wonders with the ball and took three wickets. At the same time, Tushar Deshpande and Deepak Chahar got two wickets each. Piyush Chawla took two wickets for Mumbai. Tristan Stubbs and Akash Madhwal took one wicket each. With this victory, Dhoni is once again overshadowed by Rohit. This season, both the matches between these two teams have been won by Chennai. Tushar Deshpande and Deepak Chahar got two wickets each. Piyush Chawla took two wickets for Mumbai. Tristan Stubbs and Akash Madhwal took one wicket each. With this victory, Dhoni is once again overshadowed by Rohit. This season, both the matches between these two teams have been won by Chennai. Tushar Deshpande and Deepak Chahar got two wickets each. Piyush Chawla took two wickets for Mumbai. Tristan Stubbs and Akash Madhwal took one wicket each. With this victory, Dhoni is once again overshadowed by Rohit. This season, both the matches between these two teams have been won by Chennai.
Batting first after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians had a very poor start . Captain Rohit changed the opening pair in this match. Cameron Green started the innings with Ishaan Kishan, but became the victim of Deshpande after scoring six runs in four balls. After this, Deepak Chahar took two wickets in one over to reduce Mumbai's score to three wickets for 14 runs. Deepak Chahar got Ishaan Kishan caught by Tikshna on the score of seven runs. At the same time, Rohit was caught by Jadeja on the score of zero.
Rohit Sharma got out without opening the account for the 16th time in IPL. He is the batsman who has been dismissed for zero most times in IPL. In this case, he is followed by Sunil Narine, Mandeep Singh and Dinesh Karthik. All three players have been dismissed without opening an account 15 times in the IPL.
Suryakumar and Nehal Wadhera handled the innings
Suryakumar Yadav and Nehal Wadhera handled the Mumbai team by sharing a half-century partnership for the fourth wicket. Both took Mumbai's score from 14/3 to 69/4. The pair were looking dangerous after sharing a half-century partnership, but Jadeja clean bowled Suryakumar Yadav for a personal score of 26 runs. After this, Tristan Stubbs and Nehal Wadhera also shared a half-century partnership. During this, Nehal also completed his half-century in 46 balls. He became the victim of Mathisha Pathirana after scoring 64 runs in 51 balls. With the fall of his wicket, Mumbai's score became 123/5. After this Mumbai lost wickets at regular intervals.
Tim David was dismissed for two runs and Arshad Khan scored one run. At the same time, Tristan Stubbs was dismissed after scoring 20 runs in 21 balls. Mathisha Pathirana took the maximum three wickets for Chennai. Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande got two wickets each. Ravindra Jadeja took a wicket. The economy rate of all the Chennai bowlers except Moin Ali was also good.
Seven Mumbai batsmen could not touch double figures
In this match, 10 players batted for Mumbai Indians, but seven of them could not even touch double figures. Nehal Wadhera scored the most runs (64 off 51 balls). Apart from him, only Suryakumar Yadav (26 runs in 22 balls) and Tristan Stubbs (20 runs in 21 balls) could touch the double figure. Green was dismissed for six runs, Ishaan Kishan seven runs, Tim David two runs and Arshad Khan scored one run. Captain Rohit could not even open his account. At the same time, Jofra Archer remained unbeaten after scoring three runs and Piyush Chawla scored two runs.
Chennai's good start
Chasing the target of 140 runs, the Chennai team got off to a great start. Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway added 46 runs for the first wicket. When Rituraj was dismissed for 30 off 16 balls, Conway, along with Rahane, scored at a good pace. In the powerplay, Chennai had scored 55 runs losing one wicket and reached a good position in the match. After this, Rahane was dismissed after scoring 21 runs in 17 balls and Rayudu scored 12 runs in 11 balls, but Conway remained frozen at one end. He took Chennai's score beyond 100 runs and along with Shivam Dubey brought the team to the threshold of victory. Conway was dismissed after scoring 44 runs in 42 balls, but by then Chennai's victory was decided.
In the end, Shivam Dubey and Mahendra Singh Dhoni gave victory to Chennai. Dubey remained unbeaten on 26 in 18 balls and Dhoni scored two runs in three balls. Piyush Chawla took two wickets for Mumbai. At the same time, Tristan Stubbs and Akash Madhwal got one wicket each.
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