Mumbai Indians team faced Chennai Super Kings in the second match of the double header played on Sunday. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s innings played at a strike rate of 500 in the last over overshadowed Rohit Sharma’s scintillating half-century. Batting first, the Chennai team scored 206 runs for 4 wickets on the basis of captain Rituraj Gaikwad and Shivam Dubey’s fifties.
Even after Rohit Sharma’s storming century, the Mumbai team could not achieve the target of victory. Rohit’s second century in IPL career. Mumbai lost Sunday’s match against Chennai but Rohit kept his colours. He scored 105 runs in 63 balls.
The long-awaited match between the reigning champions Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and elected to bowl first against Chennai.
The team got off to a good start by getting the wicket of Ajinkya Rahane who came to open at the beginning. Chennai captain Rituraj Gaekwad came into the field after the first wicket fell and scored a brilliant fifty. However, later he got the support of Shivam Dubey. Rituraj scored 69 runs while Shivam scored an unbeaten 66 runs.
Chasing a mammoth score of 207 runs against Chennai, opener Rohit Sharma got off to a great start in style. He completed his fifty in just 30 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. Even after this he continued to score runs.
Mathisha Pathirana gave Mumbai Indians a big blow by dismissing Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav in a single over. Suryakumar took a brilliant catch of Mustafizur Rahman at third man. After this Pathirana took a wicket in the third ball in the 18th over. With this, a total of 4 wickets were taken in the innings. Who was given player of the match.
Chennai Super Kings, who came to bat first against Mumbai Indians, gave a target of 207 runs. But, fans are unlikely to forget the style in which Mahi scored 20 runs while batting in this match.
Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya was bowling in this 20th over. In this bowling balls like Wd, 4, Wd, W, 6, 6, 6, 2, were thrown. In which Dhoni scored 20 runs in just 4 balls. However, now Mumbai has also lost by 20 runs.
