Marcus Stoinis’ match-winning 124 silences Chepauk after Ruturaj Gaikwad’s elegant century and Shivam Dube’s 66 powers CSK to 210/4
There was pin-drop silence on the MA Chidambaram Stadium and a victory roar within the center. Marcus Stoinis had pulled Mustafizur Rahman for a boundary off the third ball of the ultimate over as Lucknow Tremendous Giants pulled-off a heist in a high-scoring match.
On the midway stage of the chase, CSK had nosed forward. At 98/3, LSG wanted 112 runs within the final 10 overs. The house workforce had a couple of ace up their sleeve. CSK’s quick bowler Matheesha Pathirana had his total quota of 4 overs and Mustafizur had three extra. That’s seven good dying overs. LSG wanted to attain at 11.2 runs an over.
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Off the ultimate ball of the eleventh as Pathirana uprooted Devdutt Padikkal’s leg stump, the CSK devoted cheered. For Lucknow, it was the second that modified their course of the chase. With 13 off 19 deliveries, Padikkal was going nowhere. Instantly after Nicholas Pooran joined Stoinis, the momentum shifted. That Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Pathirana, Mustafizur leaked 69 runs between 12-16 overs didn’t assist Chennai’s trigger.
Within the first over after the second time-out Pathirana managed to get Pooran. It appeared like a dismissal that may swing the match CSK’s approach. However from there on, Stoinis took the problem head on. With Deepak Hooda taking part in a cameo, the Australian scored his maiden IPL century as even Pathirana and Mustafizur couldn’t cease Lucknow from finishing a double in opposition to them.For a serious a part of the innings, Stoinis’ knock was virtually a carbon copy of Ruturaj Gaikwad’s. Each obtained to their centuries off the 56th ball. However Stonis had extra boundaries 19 — 13 fours and 6 sixes — as in comparison with Gaikwad’s 12 fours and three sixes. Stoinis’s strike fee was 196.82, bettering Gaikwad’s 180.
Dube’s blitz
In a season the place Chennai’s abroad batsmen are struggling to seek out type, it’s their Indian recruits who’ve been making all of the noise. Tuesday was no totally different as Gaikwad and Shivam Dube confirmed India’s batting riches. Dube, with each passing knock, is exhibiting why his identify must be among the many first in India’s T20 World Cup listing as his 27-ball 66 was as useful as Gaikwad’s unbeaten 108 of 60. And to an extent, with out Dube’s booster innings, Gaikwad’s hundred would have regarded insufficient .
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Jadeja’s struggles
Having proven attacking intent at each ends to this point this season, Chennai managed solely 85 off the primary 10 overs. And it was largely all the way down to Ravindra Jadeja’s promotion to No.4, forward of Dube. This was one other innings the place Jadeja’s limitations as a T20 batsman confirmed up manifestly. Coming into bat within the remaining over of the powerplay, he performed 4 straight dot deliveries, then obtained off the mark by taking a single off a full-toss. In his 19-ball keep, he managed two boundaries, and scored simply 16. A supply earlier than he was dismissed, when Gaikwad was hanging at 181.57, Jadeja went at 94.44.And it was Jadeja’s dismissal that modified the tide for Chennai. Having scored solely 85 runs within the first 10 overs, the arrival of Dube would see the intent from each ends.
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The tall left-hander began with two singles earlier than hitting a six off the fourth supply he confronted – the primary of Chennai’s innings within the thirteenth over. And that opened the floodgates. Even Gaikwad, who was limiting himself, was starting to free his arms. The 14th and fifteenth overs fetched solely two boundaries and a six, earlier than Dube hit three successive sixes of Yash Thakur within the sixteenth. From there on, all of it went downhill for Lucknow. The seventeenth obtained them solely 8 runs, however 18th delivered by Yash went for 16. Mohsin Khan then conceded 17 off the following over earlier than MS Dhoni, dealing with the final ball, discovered a boundary as Chennai obtained 15 runs within the remaining over.If Gaikwad held Chennai’s innings collectively, it was Dube who turbo-charged them to 210. Regardless of not dealing with a single supply from spinners, his strike-rate of 244.44 was what Chennai wanted. Until LSG and Stoinis surprised the house workforce.
BRIEF SCORES: CSK 210 for 4 in 20 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 108 not out, Shivam Dube 66; Matt Henry 1/28) LSG 213/4 (Marcus Stoinis 124 not out; Matheesha Pathirana 2/35).