30th Match: Chennai XI vs Mumbai XI at Dubai, Sep 19, 2021
Chennai Super Kings won by 20 runs
Chennai XI 156/6 (20)
Mumbai XI 136/8 (20)
RR: 6.8
Last 12 Balls: 4 1 2 6 . 1wd . | 1 W 1 W . 1
Current Partnership: 18 runs, 2.2 overs, RR: 7.71 ( Quinton de Kock, Anmolpreet Singh )
Last Wicket: Saurabh Tiwary 50(40)
Ruturaj Gaikwad | MoM: Obviously one of my top innings till now. With the pressure of early wickets and with the seniors in the dressing room, I just had to grind and get the team to 130, 140 and then 150 was possible. When Mahi bhai is around and with the CSK management, once they back you, you don't have to think much. The SL tour and the preparation coming here did help too. Initially the ball was seaming and swinging so I had to take my chance against the spinners. Jaddu just came in and I had to take my chance and it came off well. Quinton was taking charge, and my drop at that stage could have crucial, but luckily Deepak got him out soon after.
MS Dhoni (CSK): I think at 30/4, you want to get something respectable on the board and Ruturaj and Bravo got us more than what we expected. We had to bat exceptionally to get to 140, but to get to 160 was tremendous. The wicket was slightly two-paced and slow to start off with. Most of them got out to the slowness. If you come later and you want to go hard and that's why we lost wickets. I would have tried to get into the eighth or ninth over and then take it from there. You always think you could have gone harder earlier, but with wickets down, it was a risk. There's always a catch, one batter played till the end and the others contributed well. It's a give and take, you need to see how many fast bowlers have in the armoury and how much time they take to bowl their overs. If a fast bowler has a long run-up or wastes a lot of time, it is tough for the captains. It depends on the situation. Rayudu was smiling, so he hasn't broken his arm. He has four days now and that should help him.
Kieron Pollard (MI): We must have got a partnership. You can do a lot of things differently in hindsight. Losing by 20 runs, I think that is the difference. Gave too many with the ball at the end. Their batters tried to continue the momentum throughout, we didn't do that. We could have learnt from their mistake of losing too many wickets in the powerplay. We needed one guy to bat deep. We had a couple of soft dismissals. We can't let that happen at this level, but we still have six games to go.
Chennai Super Kings won by 20 runs
19.6
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Over 19.6 Dwayne Bravo bowls a pitched up delivery to Jasprit Bumrah,1 run, stays deep inside the crease and squeezed into mid-wicket and picks up just a single.
19.5
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Over 19.5 Dwayne Bravo bowls a good length delivery to Jasprit Bumrah, no run, gets forward and plays all around it, ending up digging it onto his leg
