CSK is now at the 2nd spot in points table.
CSK skipper MS Dhoni won the toss at Chepauk and chose to bowl first and said that CSK was unchanged. MI, on the other hand, made one change as Tilak Varma missed out due to a niggle and Tristan Stubbs came into the XI. Raghav Goyal made his IPL debut for MI as impact sub.
MI managed only 139/8 in 20 overs as Nehal Wadhera top scored with 64 in 51 balls, his first IPL fifty, and Suryakumar Yadav and Tristan Stubbs made 20.
For CSK, Matheesha Pathirana was the pick of bowlers as he ended up with 3/15 in his 4 overs. Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande picked two wickets each.
In reply, Devon Conway’s 44 and Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 31 were the crux of CSK’s chase, who won in 17.4 overs by 6 wickets, scoring 140/4. Shivam Dube with 26* and Rahane with 21 were other contributors.
With this win, CSK moved to second place on the points table with 13 points to their name in 11 games, while MI is 6th with 10 points from 10 games.
The cricket fraternity reacted to CSK thumping MI for the second time in this IPL 2023.
Here are the tweets: