Chennai Super Kings returned to the IPL fold after two years of suspension and have not missed a step, as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 2 wickets to qualify for their 7th IPL final in 9 seasons of the tournament.
CSK were behind the whole time in their match against SRH, as the SRH bowlers had sent back the top brass of CSK batting back in the dugout. However, Faf du Plessis, who had been out of touch in previous games, came into form at the right time and took CSK to a win by hitting a six off Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Before this, CSK bowlers had restricted SRH batting to 139/7 only, with Carlos Brathwaite being the top scorer with 43*. SRH bowlers then showed their might and CSK were 92 for 7 at one stage, but Shardul Thakur hit Siddarth Kaul for 15 runs in 19th over to bring CSK closer to the win and Du Plessis finished the great escape.
The whole CSK team was elated by making it to the finals on their return to IPL fold and took to Twitter to celebrate.
Here are some tweets:
Uuuuuuuuu beauuuutttyyyy class act Top class @faf1307 @imShard 15 runs in 5 balls were the most important.. Great game of cricket ???? @ChennaiIPL vs @SunRisers @rashidkhan_19 yet another top spell @IPL
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 22, 2018
Unnai 11 manikulla mumbai vittu anupidaren.ithu nadakala intha padayappanoda moochu ninnu pochu. Yengakukku @ChennaiIPL innoru mugam irukku pakkada nonthuduva #eduda vandiya poduda whistle
— Imran Tahir (@ImranTahirSA) May 22, 2018
WOW!!!!!! Another unbelievable win... @faf1307 ???? ! @ChennaiIPL @IPL Final time ???????? something seriously special about this franchise! ???? #whistlepodu
— Sam Billings (@sambillings) May 22, 2018
Nail biting finish! @faf1307 you beauty! @ChennaiIPL back to where we belong. The finals of the @IPL. Can’t wait for Sunday. #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/lf0y4xQDCa
— Suresh Raina (@ImRaina) May 22, 2018
One team, one direction, awesome effort ???????? @ChennaiIPL pic.twitter.com/hqXP03mibS
— Murali Vijay (@mvj888) May 22, 2018
Congrats to my entire team @ChennaiIPL and @faf1307 well done tonight bro... finals here we come #rundworld ???????? pic.twitter.com/On7oDUAx6n
— Dwayne DJ Bravo (@DJBravo47) May 23, 2018
Wow, that was incredible last night, what a win! Take a bow @faf1307! What a great franchise @ChennaiIPL is! 1 more to go!!!! #WeareChennai! #CSK #IPL #IPLFinal
— David Willey (@david_willey) May 23, 2018
Watching @faf1307 bat like that was a blessing to see under pressure the man kept his cool just beautiful to watch...
— Lungi Ngidi (@NgidiLungi) May 22, 2018
Thanx so much to everyone for the kind messages.. Can’t believe that we won that game last night. Special to be there at the end. Looking forward to the final on Sunday pic.twitter.com/uAkXJqqLy7
— Faf Du Plessis (@faf1307) May 23, 2018
