The Chennai Super Kings brand has been built around their ability to fight back from points of no return. They have done it time and again over the years and on Sunday, against a powerful Mumbai Indians, they showed that it has only got better with time. After being reduced to 24-4 (Ambati Rayudu being retired hurt) on IPL’s resumption in Dubai, Ruturaj Gaikwad fashioned a brilliant comeback for the three-time champions as they notched up a 20-run win to go top of the table.
The right-hander batted with no fear when wickets were falling around him to score an unbeaten 88 that helped CSK reach 156-6. It gave the yellow brigade the oxygen to fight and then it was the turn of the bowlers coupled with some astute captaincy of MS Dhoni that won the day for CSK. Swing bowler Deepak Chahar dismissed the openers Anmolpreet Singh and Quinton de Kock and then Dhoni did what he does. He used his T20 intelligence, cut down the scoring angles of batsmen, kept changing his bowlers at the right time as Mumbai huffed and puffed to finish at 136-8.
The fact that captain Rohit Sharma and explosive allrounder Hardik Pandya were not there didn’t make things any easier for Mumbai when things started taking a wrong turn. Pandya’s absence was especially felt when Mumbai needed around 50 off the last four overs but there was no one to give the defending champions the necessary push.
This story is from the September 20, 2021 edition of The Times of India Hyderabad.
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