CSK vs GT: Excitement in IPL 2023 final, such feat happened after 2008

In the final of IPL 2023, a thrilling match was played between CSK captained by MS Dhoni and Gujarat Titans captained by Hardik Pandya. The special thing about this season of IPL was that the two teams which played the first match of the season, came face to face in the final as well. Till the last ball in the world’s biggest cricket league i.e. Indian Premier League, which lasted for almost two months, it was difficult to predict which team would become the champion. When ten runs were needed to win the last two balls, at around 1:30 in the night, cricket fans around the world were fuming, but with Ravindra Jadeja at the crease, there was every possibility of anything happening. Meanwhile, what happened only once in the 16-year history of the IPL, happened once again on Monday night.

For the first time since IPL 2008, the team chasing the run won the match on the last ball.

In the history of IPL, 15 seasons were played before this final. But only once has this happened, when the team chasing the run has won the match on the last ball. Let us take you straight to the 2008 IPL final. That year the final match was played between Chennai Super Kings captained by MS Dhoni and Rajasthan Royals captained by Shane Warne. The team of Chennai Super Kings batted first and scored 163 runs at the loss of five wickets in the allotted 20 overs. That is, Rajasthan Royals needed 164 runs to win this match. Lakshmipati Bala ji came with the 20th over. Sohal Tanvir was in front, he needed one run off the last ball to win and he did it. Since then, it had never happened till now, when the team chasing runs on the last ball won the match, but now it has happened.

CSK needed ten runs on the last two balls to win, Ravindra Jadeja won the match
Talking about the final of IPL 2023 played between CSK and GT, the match was interrupted due to rain and when the match resumed after about two hours, CSK had to score 171 runs in 15 overs to win. Talking about the last over, Chennai Super Kings needed 14 runs off six balls. No run was scored on the first ball of Mohit Sharma and after that two runs came in two balls and the match seemed to be trapped. Only one more run came on the fourth ball of the over. That is, now ten runs were to be scored in two balls. GT and Mohit Sharma only had to get one ball out and the match would have been in their pocket. But Ravindra Jadeja hit a six on the fifth ball of the over and the match had reached a special threshold of excitement. Now four runs were needed off the last ball, Ravindra Jadeja showed his charisma by hitting a four. This feat may have happened for the second time in IPL but Ravindra Jadeja’s work was bigger than Sohail Tanvir’s.