Match Details

CSK vs MI 59th Match, IPL 2022

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MI
103-514.5
Mumbai Indians won by 5 wickets 🏆
CSK
16.097-10
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12th Over:
0
0
4
2
1
0
 
= 7
13th Over:
0
1
0
W
1
1
 
= 3
Last Over:
1
1
2
1
0
1
 
= 6
This Over:
6
1
0
1
6
 
= 14
MIMI - 2nd Innings
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6 Over 4536
10 Over 6166
CSKCSK - 1st Innings
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6 Over 4632
10 Over 5765
15 Over 9987
20 Over 10297

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That is all we have from the commentary box folks. Till the next time it's good-night and good-bye from me (Arya Sekhar Chakraborty), my fellow commentators Ayan Chatterjee and Ninaad Dixit along with our scorer/analyst Paras Yadav. 
Daniel Sams is the player of the match- I think like you said the first few games didn't go to plan. Got a few games off to reflect on that and I figured out I wasn't focussing on my strengths and was rather focussing on the batter at the other end. We always talk about each batter. Moeen Ali is a very good batsman. It's one of the things we have spoken to use the bounce against most of the batters. I was really excited to bat at No 3. Any opportunity with the bat I am happy to do that. MJ  (Mahela Jayawardena) spoke about that today. The whole IPL this year has been beautiful wickets to bowl on. Little bit more grass and it has been every enjoyable. It's good to see a T20 game where the bowler has dominated. 
Rohit Sharma, MI skipper- Yeah I mean looking at the way the pitch was playing and to lose wickets upfront it was a bit tense at the start but we got the job done in the end which is pleasing. I think we have played a lot of cricket and Wankhede. We have had pitches like this earlier. At times it's important to get the bowlers into the game. It was good to see some bounce from bowlers from both sides. We are keeping an eye on that (about the future). The bottom line is that we want to win games. We are trying to give some games to certain players and see if they can take the pressure. We might do certain things in the next two games. Tilak has been very brilliant. Playing in his first season and having such a calm head is never easy. He will be an all-format player for India very soon. Lot of things looking bright for him. There is hunger from him to do well. He is on the right path. I have particularly seen enough of Bumrah so I don't need to tell him what he needs to do. The roles are different when he is playing for India. It was a magnificent spell upfront. We saw what he did the last day. He (Pollard) has been a stalwart for Mumbai. It is he who came out and said it was okay. If there was a situation where we had a chance to qualify it wouldn't have happened. We had to take the call and Kieron came up and said it's absolutely okay. 
Time for the post-match presentation ceremony with Harsha Bhogle. 

Arya- Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and put Chennai Super Kings in. The talking point before the start of the match was Kieron Pollard finally facing the axe in favour of a young South African Tristan Stubbs. The opening over of the match by Daniel Sams included a lot of drama. Devon Conway was adjudged LBW in the 2nd delivery of the match and due to a power cut, DRS wasn’t available and Conway would feel hard done by. 

It was clearly sliding down the leg stump and this is not the first time, there has been an umpiring howler in this tournament nor it will be the last occasion. That unfortunate dismissal started something special for the Mumbai Indians bowlers. Daniel Sams bagged the wicket of Moeen Ali in that first over itself to reduce CSK to 2/2. In came Jasprit Bumrah in the 3rd over and he trapped Robin Uthappa with an exceptional away seamer. DRS wasn’t available yet, but it looked very close this time, and Uthappa should have been a goner even if he had DRS available. 

Wickets kept tumbling as Sams got the man in form Ruturaj Gaikwad in his 3rd over. It was a strangle down the leg side as he managed to get a feather to a delivery which otherwise would have been a wide had he left that alone. At 17/4, in came MS Dhoni to join Ambati Rayudu in the middle and they needed to settle the proceedings with a partnership. However, it wasn’t to be as Riley Meredith joined in the act bagging the wicket of Rayudu in his first over. 

He followed it up with the wicket of Shivam Dube with a very well-directed short delivery and the left-hander couldn’t quite fend that away gloving it straight to Ishan Kishan behind the stumps. MS Dhoni was the lone warrior out there in the middle who smashed a few boundaries to give the CSK fans in the crowd something to cheer about. 

Dwayne Bravo also smoked a biggie over midwicket but was pocketed by Kumar Kartikeya in the very next delivery. It was a full toss and Bravo tried to lift that over the short cover fielder. Tilak Cerma who was at place timed the jump to perfection and held onto it with both hands. Simranjeet Singh was out in that over itself as he was rapped right in front by the left-arm spinner. 

Dhoni played some exceptional shots from the other end despite the cluster of wickets. Rohit Sharma then introduced Ramandeep Singh into the attack and guess what, he bagged the wicket of Maheesh Theekshana in his very first over. Dhoni then whacked Riley Meredith for a maximum over deep backward square leg. Mukesh Choudhary tried to give him some company but Dhoni had to keep strike and in a bid to take the run on the final delivery of the 16th over, Choudhary was found short of the crease as Ishan Kishan inflicted a terrific run-out.

Arya- The target of 97 wasn’t going to bother MI too much unless they lost a cluster of early wickets like CSK did. MS Dhoni took a review out of frustration for what happened with them in the first innings. He knew the ball was pitching well outside off but took the DRS which was obviously wasted. Ishan Kishan started off with a boundary but was dismissed in the opening over itself by Mukesh Choudhary. 

Rohit Sharma started off in a blazing fashion after missing a few but couldn’t quite carry on his early onslaught. He smashed four delightful boundaries on his way to 18 before Simranjeet Singh bowled a brilliant outswinger, inducing the outside edge of Rohit Sharma’s blade. Daniel Sams who was sent up the order to use the powerplay struggled to get going in the initial stages and was eventually trapped right in front by Mukesh Choudhary. 

Chennai Super Kings managed to remain in the game as Mukesh Choudhary bagged one more in his 3rd over dismissing debutant Tristan Stubbs with a sensational in dipper which struck the youngster on the back pad and there was no question if the ball was hitting the stumps. With the score reading 33/4, CSK was in with a chance. However with the scoreboard pressure not being enough, two youngsters Tilak Verma and Hrithik Shokeen decided to grind out the difficult phase and once there was a partnership, the target was way too less for CSK to defend. 

Both the batters played some quality shots and it was their partnership which blunted the run-chase. It was sensible batting from the left-hand right-hand duo as MI kept chipping away towards the target. Shokeen lost his concentration towards the fag end of the match and gave his wicket away cheaply. However, Tim David was there to see his side through. Two sixes of Moeen Ali in the 15th over was enough to take MI over the finishing line.

Zaheer Khan: "Every game is important. We have tried hard to keep the processes going and it's been difficult. So, it was good to see swing and seam today and I was happy to see things finally coming together. IPL has been exciting. All the bowlers of various franchises have excelled and I am happy to see the talent coming through. They have a good speedometer. So, we are in the last leg of the tournament. We want to see how the young players are reacting to the situation and see how they develop. Pollard is a legend. We spoke to him and his contribution to us has been immense. He took the decision by himself. It was not an easy decision for him. But he took the call by himself. He is a champion and a legend and we told him we will give the youngsters a go. So, he was on board with it. "
MS Dhoni: "I don't think that's not enough, the wicket doesn't matter. Anything below 130 is hard to defend. I asked the bowlers to still bowl at their best, not thinking about the results and both the fast bowlers did well. It's good to have fast bowlers. We had a time when we never had a real bench strength of fast bowlers. Bowlers need their time to mature. If you are lucky a bowler can mature within six months to play in any format. Yet you see a few who shy away a bit initially but as they play more games, they get better at executing their plans. The fast bowlers, both of them bowling well is a good positive. We have two more fast bowlers coming in for the next season. There are quite a few positives, we will take them in the next season. There are some loopholes and we want to fill them. When you are batting in that kind of a pressure, the initial deliveries are important. Once they get past that stage, they can be themselves but it didn't pay off. The opposition bowled really well. You have to soak in the pressure, even if the format is shorter, they have enough overs. Some batters got out on good deliveries and it is the part and parcel of the game."
Arya- A comfortable victory for the Mumbai Indians in the end by 5 wickets and with 31 deliveries to spare. Mukesh Choudhary bowled brilliantly in the powerplay which gave CSK a glimmer of hope. However it was some sensible batting by Tilak Verma and Hrithik Shokeen and in the end it was Tim David who smoked two big sixes to finish the match off for the Mumbai Indians. 
14.5 M Ali to T David
6 Tim David finishes it off in style. Was halfway down the track from Moeen Ali. Tim David goes deep into his crease and pulls it away up and over and it goes sailing well over the deep square leg fence. 105 metres six to finish off proceedings. Almost a perfect match for MI barring that early hiccup. Comfortable in the end but at 33/4, there would have certainly been a few nerves. 
14.4 M Ali to T Varma
1 Tossed up fuller-length delivery a shade outside off and Tilak Verma shimmies down the track and pushes this down the long-off region for a single. 
14.3 M Ali to T Varma
0 Moeen Ali pitches it on a length around middle-stump. Tilak Verma makes some room and pushes this down the backward point region. 
14.2 M Ali to T David
1 Flatter this time on the stumps and David pushes this away down long-on for a single. 
14.1 M Ali to T David
6 Tim Dvid smokes this for a maximum. He got plenty of it and it goes sailing over the wide long-on fence for a maximum. Moeen Ali tosses this up a shade outside off. Tim David launches into that and ends up thumping that well over the boundary ropes. 
Arya will take us through to the end of the match. 
OVER 14
Mumbai Indians
89/5
Tilak Varma
33(30)
Tim David
3(4)
Maheesh Theekshana
0-24(3.0)
13.6 M Theekshana to T David
1 A quicker one that's pushed through David drives it through the covers for a single to end the over. 
13.5 M Theekshana to T David
0 Tosses up here, David swings and misses to the keeper. 
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