Chennai:
The fifties of Rachin Ravindra (65 Not Out) and Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (53) helped Chennai Super Kings to start their IPL 2025 campaign with a four-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in the Ma Chidambaram stage on Sunday. After Noor Ahmad's 4-18 and the 3-29 of Khaleel Ahmed CSK helped to limit Mi to 155/9, Gaikwad aggression and timing mixed to hit six four and three sixes while raising his fifty in 22 balls, his fastest half century in the tournament. Despite the fact that wickets fell from the other end, Ravindra held one end company to hit an unbeaten 45-ball 65, peppered with two four and four sixes, while CSK won a nervy victory. For Mi, who has not won their first match of an IPL season since 2012, Debutant Vignesh Puthur's enchantment of 3-32 would be the biggest positive.
Chasend 156, Deepak Chand struck while Rahul Tripathi pointed his short ball to the top to keeper Ryan Rickleton in the second. Gaikwad, who came out at number three, loved two disks from Trent Boult for back-to-back fours, before he pulled Chahar for six.
With debutant Pacer Satyanarayana Raju who gave the width, Gaikwad benefited for his mistakes to hammer Square from the Off-Side before he hammered Mitchell Santner for six and two, while CSK ended the Power-Play on 62/1. After that, Gaikwad Lofted Will Jacks will be discussed from the inside before he brought up his fifty in 22 balls. But Gaikwad fell for 53 when he looked to play the Lofted Straight Drive against Debutant Vignesh Puthur, but threw out for a long time.
Puthur, still to play senior cricket for Kerala, still had a big wicket when Shivam Dube went to the field border near the straight border for nine, shortly after cheating the spider Hitter with a Googly. In the midst of all this, Ravindra, who was on 28 balls of 27 balls, meant a shift in gears by dancing the pitch and dancing Puthur for six. But the dream evening of the young spinner went on, because Deepak Hooda was not given a height on the slog sweep and was caught in the depth.
From there the problems of CSK started because Sam Curran tried to take on after two silent overs jacks, but she was dug for four. With 31 runs needed from the last four overs, Ravindra Jadeja Boult hit the backward point to collect a four in a 10-run 17th.
In the meantime, Ravindra raised his fifty in 42 balls through Puthur over mid-wicket for six to six, before he smoked him for another maximum. Although Jadeja 17 was sustained, Ravindra ended the chase in style by Santner for six, to the delight of the crowd, who also saw Mrs. Dhoni, who did not score a run, because CSK started their campaign with a victory.
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