This was the Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) second defeat at home. The Super Kings’ openers got the team off to a great start after winning the toss and choosing to bat. Devon Conway made an unbeaten 92 as the home side arrived at the 200-mark indeed. Accordingly, PBKS had commitments from a few players before at last moving past the line just barely.
3) Error- Matheesha Pathirana and MS Dhoni missed the point on the last ball
Matheesha Pathirana is a phenomenal young talent who nearly put CSK ahead of PBKS in an unlikely circumstance. In contrast, MS Dhoni is arguably the greatest cricket captain of all time. However, when Punjab needed three runs, the two were not quite in sync off the final ball of the chase. The last finished, which saw Pathirana bowl to Sikandar Raza and Shahrukh Khan, made them attempt to stir up yorkers and more slow ones with square leg inside the circle.
Since Raza had already been fooled by a slower ball and knew what to expect, sending down a fast yorker off the final ball would have been the best move. Besides, with three hurries to win, CSK had the pad to endeavor a yorker and not stress over possibly getting a wicket.
Regardless, the Super Kings ought to have changed their field for the final ball. If Pathirana was going to attempt a slower ball, they should have brought fine leg inside the circle and pushed square leg to the ropes because doing so would have eliminated the ramp.
Raza deposited Pathirana’s cutter into empty spaces in the square-leg region, and CSK used neither strategy. However, this experience will teach the young Sri Lankan, who already possesses an extremely high level of intelligence.
2 CSK did it again, elevating Shivam masterstroke to No. 3 and made the middle overs bigger.
At the point when Ruturaj Gaikwad was excused in the tenth over, CSK had a great stage to work with. In the dugout, the Men in Yellow had a lot of firepower and were rated at 86/1. But the Chepauk surface was giving the PBKS spinners some grip and turn, and they had Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Sikandar Raza, and Liam Livingstone in their ranks. It might have turned out badly for the home side, who have had their issues against turn before.
However, IPL 2023 has been different, and Shivam Dube has played a significant role in this. This year, the tall southpaw has dominated the slower bowlers with his range and length, elevating him to No. CSK was able to keep a potent spin-hitting combination at number 3.
Teams in the IPL rarely opt to play without a right-left pairing. Nonetheless, MS Dhoni and Co. knew that both Dube and Conway are very great against off-turn. by bringing Dube in at number Thirdly, they eliminated Harpreet Brar from the equation.
They had to use one over of Rahul Chahar at the end because PBKS couldn’t bowl Brar, and Conway hit him for two boundaries. They additionally expected to blow away an of Livingstone, which wound up costing 16 runs.
1) Error: Ravindra Jadeja’s final over was played too late.
It’s extremely interesting to see MS Dhoni commit such a rudimentary error. It’s likewise uncommon to see him not bowl out a specific bowler when he’s in a decent beat.
During that over, which resulted in 17 runs, Jadeja was hit with two sixes. Pathirana eventually ran out of things to do when the required run rate dropped from 12 to 10.33.
CSK should have bowled Jadeja out earlier and held Theekshana at bay for one over. The left-arm spinner is maybe in the best bowling type of his profession, however he’s most likely not sufficient to dumbfound the seventeenth of a tall run-pursue.