IPL 2023: “How is it unfair to GT?”- Irfan Pathan gets slammed on Twitter for saying interruption gave CSK the advantage

CSK defeated GT by 5 wickets via DLS method after being asked to chase 171 in 15 overs due to rain.

By Jatin Sharma - 31 May, 2023

CSK won the IPL 2023 and became the five-time champions | Twitter On Monday night, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) final, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

The MS Dhoni-led team defeated the 2022 champions by a margin of five wickets to win their fifth IPL championship. On Monday, play was stopped due to rain, cutting CSK's run chase by five overs. The team had barely batted three deliveries when the stoppage occurred.

With a 15-over game, the new playing conditions meant no bowler had the four-over quota for Gujarat Titans anymore, and former India bowler Irfan Pathan stated that it worked in CSK's favour.

“In a rain curtailed shortened final Yesterday CSK started batting with Shami. Rasid and Mohit losing one over each from their regular quota of 4 overs. That means league’s top 3 wicket takers were deprived of 18 balls and no wickets. That’s certainly played as an advantage to CSK,” Pathan tweeted.

In a rain curtailed shortened final Yesterday CSK started batting with Shami. Rasid and Mohit losing one over each from their regular quota of 4 overs. That means league’s top 3 wicket takers were deprived of 18 balls and no wickets. That’s certainly played as an advantage to…
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) May 30, 2023

However, this didn’t sit well with the CSK fans on Twitter who came up with good reasonings why CSK were actually in disadvantage in the final after they were asked to chase 171 runs in 15 overs.

Here are some of the reactions:

Looks like bro hasn’t woke up from Dharamshala yet.

Conway and Ruttu’s Reduced PP overs can be taken into account of Mr. Vijay Mallaya https://t.co/swV06yEJdN pic.twitter.com/DIMopfFygW
— Jeya Suriya (@MSPMovieManiac) May 30, 2023

powerplay reduced to 4 overs. that means csk openers were deprived of 12 balls to play as freely as possible. that's certainly played as an advantage to gt
— Neeche Se Topper (@NeecheSeTopper) May 30, 2023

In the curtailed shortened final, of Shami/Rashid & Mohit - 3 overs of 54b they bowled CSK scored 109 runs. So if they had bowled csk would have scored 145 runs leaving only 71 to score of remaining 8.

That means if we had a full game, we could have ended the game in 19 overs…
— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) May 30, 2023

For 5overs, only 43runs were reduced
GT scored at 10+ RR and CSK were asked to score 11.5+RR per over
How is it unfair to GT?
Did you expect CSK to be chasing 200 in 15overs sir?
— msd_stan (@bdrijalab) May 30, 2023

Can't believe you are a cricket expert. U think 171 in 15 overs at 11.40 Rpo was easy and that too against the best bowling line up?? 9 out of 10 times bowling team can easily win in this situation and that one time was yesterday for CSK. Jadeja rayudu conway r experienced…
— vikas pandey (@vikaspandey6) May 30, 2023

171 in 15 overs that too in a final is a bit easy against one of the best bowing attack by Irfan Pathan logic ????
— Mr.Yadav (@MigTrader) May 31, 2023

That's why your career got over way too earlier https://t.co/SzuaAM5RS6
— ~ Leo Srinath???? ????~ (@srenathhrayd) May 31, 2023

What's this logic? It's not like someone else is bowling their 18 balls.

All the three are still getting 1/5th of the team's overs as it should be. https://t.co/FGtkcQDB5r
— Mayank (@ImMayankB) May 31, 2023

First of all, No one asked your opinion, and second, for the record, CSK would have won either way.
— Meghan (@federaltrust) May 30, 2023

Cry baby cry
— The new Bharat Army (@vaspar78) May 30, 2023

What ?? Dude , Had it been a 20 over game all 3 would have bowled 12 overs combined ( 60% of the balls ). In a 15 over game they still bowled 9 overs ( 60% of the balls ) which is the same. So the batsman still had to face the same% of deliveries from those 3.
— Anshul Gupta (@iAnsh_95) May 31, 2023

In Last 5 overs GT literally scored 70+ runs.. But for CSK, they let them to chase 171 in just 15 overs with NRR of 11.4 P/O just by reducing 43 runs

And you’re here sitting & tweeting about advantage for CSK..???? https://t.co/x8bYUdrXIU
— ???? (@ponmanivj03) May 30, 2023

IPL 2023: “How is it unfair to GT?”- Irfan Pathan gets slammed on Twitter for saying interruption gave CSK the advantage

CSK defeated GT by 5 wickets via DLS method after being asked to chase 171 in 15 overs due to rain.

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