Rajasthan beat Chennai by three runs in a thrilling match, Dhoni and Jadeja could not finish the match
Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings by three runs to register their third win in the tournament. With the victory in this match, the Rajasthan team has come on top of the points table. Batting first, Rajasthan Royals scored 175 runs for eight wickets. In response, the Chennai team was able to score 172 runs by losing six wickets and lost the match by three runs. In this match, the pair of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja could not score seven runs in the last three balls against Sandeep Sharma.
For Rajasthan, Jos Buttler scored 52 and Devdutt Padikkal scored 38 runs. Ashwin and Hetmyer scored 30-30 runs. Ravindra Jadeja, Akash Singh and Tushar Deshpande took two wickets each for Chennai. Moeen Ali got a wicket. At the same time, Devon Conway scored 50 for Chennai, Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 32 and Ajinkya Rahane scored 31 runs. Jadeja remained unbeaten after scoring 25 runs. Ashwin and Chahal took two wickets each for Rajasthan. Zampa and Sandeep Sharma got one wicket each.
WHAT. A. GAME! 👏 👏
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Another day, another last-ball finish in #TATAIPL 2023! 😎@sandeep25a holds his nerve as @rajasthanroyals seal a win against #CSK! 👍 👍
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Jaiswal out early
Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and asked Rajasthan to bat in his 200th captaincy match in the IPL. In the third over, Tushar Deshpande dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal (10). From here, Devdutt Padikkal showed good hands to take Rajasthan past 50 in the powerplay. Here he was also given life by Moin Ali in the slip. Rajasthan scored 57 for one in the powerplay, with the dangerous Jos Buttler contributing 17 runs.
Jadeja put a brake on the speed of Rajasthan
Butler started showing his hands as soon as the powerplay was over. He hit two consecutive sixes in Moeen’s over, 18 runs came in this over, but Ravindra Jadeja bowled charismatic bowling in the next over. First he dismissed Devdutt who scored 38 runs in 26 balls. Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal shared a 77-run partnership in 41 balls for the second wicket. Only one ball later, Jadeja bowled captain Sanju Samson on the best ball.
Moin Ali dropped the catch
Rajasthan’s condition would have been even worse if Moeen had taken Ashwin’s catch in the slip. Jadeja had given 11 runs in the first over. In the last three overs, he conceded 10 runs and took two wickets. Ashwin took advantage of the missed catch and hit Akash Singh, playing his first IPL match, for two consecutive sixes. He was caught by Magala on a personal score of 30 by Akash.
40 runs scored in the last five overs
Jos Buttler was unable to show his natural game in the flurry of falling wickets. However, during this time he completed his three thousand runs in the 85th innings in IPL. Chris Gayle has scored three thousand runs in less innings than him in 75 and KL Rahul in 80 innings. He also completed his 23rd half-century in IPL in 33 balls. Butler was dismissed immediately after scoring 52 runs in 36 balls. Hetmyer hit two sixes in the last over, but Chennai came back and took four wickets for just 40 runs in the last five overs. Shimron Hetmyer played an inning of 30 runs.
Bad start for Chennai
Chasing a score of 176 runs, Chennai got off to a very poor start. Rituraj Gaikwad got out after scoring just eight runs. After this, Rahane and Conway took over Chennai’s innings with a half-century partnership, but Rahane became the victim of Ashwin by scoring 31 runs in 19 balls. At this time the team’s score was 78 runs. After this, Ashwin also trapped Shivam Dubey in front of the wickets on the score of eight runs. Ashwin’s ball was going outside the leg stump, but Dubey did not take the review and was out.
Moin Ali was also dismissed after scoring seven runs and Ambati Rayudu after scoring one run. Chennai batsmen struggled in front of Rajasthan’s spin bowlers and Devon Conway also became Chahal’s victim by scoring 50 runs in 38 balls. The Chennai team was struggling after losing six wickets for 113 runs in 15 overs. After this Dhoni and Jadeja handled the innings together. Both added 59 runs in 30 balls, but both of them could not score seven runs in three balls of Sandeep Sharma’s last over. With this, Chennai had to face defeat.
Ashwin scored only four runs in the 16th over and Chahal also gave only five runs in the next over. In the 18th over of Zampa, Dhoni scored 14 runs by hitting a four and a six. In the 19th over of Holder, Jadeja scored 19 runs by hitting two sixes and a four. Now Chennai needed 21 runs to win in the last over. Sandeep Sharma hit the first two wides and Dhoni hit two sixes in the next three balls. Chennai needed seven runs in the next three balls to win, but Dhoni and Jadeja could not score these runs. This is Chennai’s second defeat in four matches. At the same time, Rajasthan has won three out of four matches.
