After fighting a state of peril, the three-time IPL champions were able to post a respectable total of 156. Mumbai Indians, playing without Hardik Pandya and Rohit Sharma, had some new faces in their batting unit as well.
Openers Quinton de Kock and Anmolpreet Singh steered their side to a decent start but the CSK quicks pulled things back and dismantled the top order in the latter stages of the powerplay.
Deep Dasgupta believed MS Dhoni’s captaincy was excellent during the game. Dasgupta noted how Dhoni’s ploy to change the field and bring back a specialist bowler did the trick in the case of Ishan Kishan and Kieron Pollard’s wickets. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Dasgupta said:
With Kishan just beginning to settle in at the crease, Dhoni deployed Dwayne Bravo with a short extra cover in place. Kishan went for an expansive cover drive on the very first delivery itself but the ball evaded the stumps through the inside edge and off to the boundary.
The plan worked itself out in the second delivery with perfection, however. Bravo pitched the delivery full and wide outside the off-stump. While Kishan connected the drive well, it found Suresh Raina well inside the circle.
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Spinners in the middle overs allowed the game to drift away: Deep Dasgupta on the momentum shifting CSK’s way
Earlier in the day, CSK were in a state of absolute disarray after the pacers wreaked havoc in the powerplay. With Ambadi Rayudu injured as well, the franchise were running out of proper batsmen who could play over two-thirds of the innings.
Instead of persisting with his pacers who picked up wickets, Pollard chose to bring on his spinners in the eighth over. Dasgupta believes the move favored CSK as they were able to build a platform with ease to switch gears easily in the death overs.
While Rahul Chahar held the fort for MI, Krunal Pandya conceded 18 runs off his second over which proved to be a big factor in terms of the momentum shifting CSK’s way.
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