IPL
2018 | Chennai Super Kings vs
Mumbai Indians at
Wankhede
West Indies all-rounder does the incredible; Markande’s spell goes in vain
Dwayne Bravo dashed Mumbai Indians’ hopes with some spectacular hitting off left-arm seamer Mitchell McClenaghan and Jasprit Bumrah to hand Chennai Super Kings a spectacular victory in the Vivo-IPL-11 opener at the Wankhede Stadium.
Bravo smashed 20 runs each off the two as he made a lightning-fast 68 with seven 6s and three 4s.
The injured Kedar Jadhav returned to the thick of action, played three dot balls in the last over from Mustafizur Rahman, but converted a brilliant six off the fourth over long-leg and then spanked a cover-driven four off the fifth to turn the tables on the home team.
The 20-year-old leg-spinner from Punjab broke the back of Chennai Super Kings, scalping Ambati Rayudu and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but in the end Bravo had his way.
Returning to the league after a gap of three years, Dhoni won the toss and decided to field. Dhoni began proceedings with right-arm seamer Deepak Chahar, who had played just four matches in the league. Home team captain Rohit Sharma was beaten neck and crop off the first ball.
He had hit a four and a six, when, in trying to force the pace in the PowerPlay, he top-edged Watson and Ambati Rayudu brought off a well-judged catch.
Sporting the MI colours after seven
seasons, Suryakumar
Yadav
took charge in a confident manner striking the ball fluently off his front
foot.
Suryakumar and left-hander Ishan Kishan raised 78 runs for the third wicket.
West Indies all-rounder does the incredible; Markande’s spell goes in vain
Dwayne Bravo dashed Mumbai Indians’ hopes with some spectacular hitting off left-arm seamer Mitchell McClenaghan and Jasprit Bumrah to hand Chennai Super Kings a spectacular victory in the Vivo-IPL-11 opener at the Wankhede Stadium.
Bravo smashed 20 runs each off the two as he made a lightning-fast 68 with seven 6s and three 4s.
The injured Kedar Jadhav returned to the thick of action, played three dot balls in the last over from Mustafizur Rahman, but converted a brilliant six off the fourth over long-leg and then spanked a cover-driven four off the fifth to turn the tables on the home team.
The 20-year-old leg-spinner from Punjab broke the back of Chennai Super Kings, scalping Ambati Rayudu and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but in the end Bravo had his way.
Returning to the league after a gap of three years, Dhoni won the toss and decided to field. Dhoni began proceedings with right-arm seamer Deepak Chahar, who had played just four matches in the league. Home team captain Rohit Sharma was beaten neck and crop off the first ball.
He had hit a four and a six, when, in trying to force the pace in the PowerPlay, he top-edged Watson and Ambati Rayudu brought off a well-judged catch.
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Suryakumar and left-hander Ishan Kishan raised 78 runs for the third wicket.
England’s
Mark Wood bowled his first two overs superbly, but
Krunal
Pandya, ever the late-order saviour for the men in blue and gold stripes,
delivered the goods again.
Though shackled for a major part of
its innings, MI scored heavily off leg-spinner
Imran Tahir’s first over (18 runs), Dwayne Bravo’s first over (14 runs) and
Wood’s third (19 runs) and fourth overs (17 runs).
Bravo’s smart bowling checked
the run rate in the end, but the Pandya brothers’ stand of 52 for the unbeaten fifth wicket enabled MI to set an asking rate of eight
runs an over
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