Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets in the first match of IPL 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi and thus kicked off their campaign on a winning note.
Earlier Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to bowl first. Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock gave a good start of 46 runs but both the batsmen couldn't convert their starts and got out in back-to-back overs. Suryakumar Yadav and Saurabh Tiwari's useful partnership took the score to over 90 runs and at one stage Mumbai were 121/3 in 14 overs but in the last six over Chennai Super Kings made a good come back and conceded only 41 runs for 6 wickets and restricted Mumbai to 162/9 in 20 overs.
In reply, Chennai Super Kings had a very poor start as Watson got out on Boult's bowling while Pattinson sent back Vijay to the dressing room for just 1 run, and at 6/2 they're in big trouble. Faf du Plessis and Ambati Rayudu rebuilt the innings and brought back their team into the game. Rayudu continued to play his shots and brought up the first fifty of this season. He got out after scoring 71 runs off 48 balls.
In the end, Super Kings needed 40 odd runs in the last 4 overs. Cameos from Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran helped Faf du Plessis to take their team home in the last over. Faf du Plessis also played 58* runs knock.
All the major stats and facts from the first match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Abu Dhabi :
1 - This is Chennai Super Kings' first win over Mumbai Indians since the opening match win in IPL 2018. In between these two wins, they lost five matches against them.
6 - Mumbai Indians have lost each of the six matches they have played in the UAE so far. Five of the losses came in 2014.
11 - Number of fifty-plus scores Faf du Plessis has scored for Chennai Super Kings in IPL - the joint fourth-most by a batsman.
Most Fifty Plus Scores for CSK in IPL -
33 - Suresh Raina
21 - MS Dhoni
14 - Michael Hussey
11 - Faf du Plessis / S Badrinath
9 - Murali Vijay
43.33 - Jasprit Bumrah's bowling average against Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. He has taken only 6 wickets at this average against them in this league.
100 - This was the 100th win for MS Dhoni as captain of Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. He is the first captain to win 100 matches as captain for a team in the IPL.
Most Wins as captain for a team in IPL -
100 - MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings, 161 Matches)
61 - Gautam Gambhir (Kolkata Knight Riders, 108 Matches)
60 - Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians, 105 Matches)
49 - Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore, 110 Matches)
30 - Shane Warne (Rajasthan Royals, 55 Matches)
30 - Sachin Tendulkar (Mumbai Indians, 55 Matches)
151 - Piyush Chawla has taken 151 wickets in IPL - the third-most by a bowler.
Most wickets in IPL -
170 - Lasith Malinga
157 - Amit Mishra
151 - Piyush Chawla
150 - Harbhajan Singh
147 - Dwayne Bravo
2013 - Mumbai Indians have lost their opening match of each IPL season since the start of 2013.
Mumbai Indians' opening match in each IPL season since 2013 -
2013 - Lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore
2014 - Lost to Kolkata Knight Riders
2015 - Lost to Kolkata Knight Riders
2016 - Lost to Rising Pune Supergiant
2017 - Lost to Rising Pune Supergiant
2018 - Lost to Chennai Super Kings
2019 - Lost to Delhi Capitals
2020 - Lost to Chennai Super Kings
