Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper MS Dhoni sounded a warning to his quick bowlers and requested them to tug up their socks after his aspect held its nerve to win a thriller towards Lucknow Super Giants in Match 6 of the IPL 2023 on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
After posting 217 runs on the board for the lack of seven wickets, CSK quick bowlers got here a cropper as they leaked runs within the PowerPlay however their spinner got here up with a rescue act to assist their aspect beat LSG by 12 runs.
Deepak Chahar turned out to be the costliest skipper after giving freely 55 runs in his 4 overs. Tushar Deshpande was one other bowler who sprayed in line and size early within the innings however returned to select two wickets giving 45 runs.
Dhoni minced no phrases when requested in regards to the efficiency of his quick bowlers within the post-match presentation.
“Fast bowling we need to slightly improve. Need to bowl according to the conditions. What is important is to keep an eye on what the opposition bowlers are doing. One more thing is they’ll have to bowl no no-balls or extra wides. Or they’ll have to play under a new captain. It will be my second warning and then I’ll be off. The only reason we’ve scored those runs is if the surface is nice,” Dhoni mentioned.
Speaking general about his aspect’s efficiency, the captain mentioned, “Terrific high-scoring game. All of us were thinking how the wicket would be. It was the perfect first game that could happen. I thought it would be much slower. But it was a wicket where you could score runs. I was quite surprised with the wicket. But we’ll have to see if we can produce a wicket like this game after game.”
Losing skipper KL Rahul didn’t remorse his determination of bowling first after profitable the beginning and heaped reward on Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway for giving Chennai an explosive begin.
“Not the ideal start after winning the toss. The first couple of overs it was a bit sticky and there was a bit of movement, but we did not bowl in the right areas and they got that flier. When you have quality batters in the opposition, they make you pay. Something for us to learn but the way Rutu and Conway played was brilliant. It does take time to learn what lengths to bowl on a surface, but to go for 70 odd in six overs isn’t ideal,” Rahul mentioned.
Lucknow was off to a terrific begin within the chase as Kyle Mayers blazed off to an excellent half-century. But the introduction of spin noticed the opposition lose wickets at common intervals.
“We batted well but we didn’t capitalize the small momentum. Kyle Mayers is coming off good form, he was smoking them for West Indies and comes here with the same form and intent. Great to see what he’s done with the opportunity,” he mentioned.
The LSG skipper did have a particular phrase of point out for leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi who impressed with a three-wicket haul.
“Bishnoi is someone I’ve played with for a while, he gets wickets when things aren’t going well, puts his hand up and contains runs. Good to see different guys putting their hands up,” the skipper mentioned.
When requested if he would have modified his determination after profitable the toss, Rahul mentioned, “Wouldn’t change the toss decision, we didn’t win because we didn’t capitalize the small moments. We had a good start but couldn’t press on. Not often we’ll find 4-5 guys caught on the boundary ropes, they needed to go over and will go over the next time. We’ll take that in T20 cricket, today the game didn’t go our way but this is the way we want to keep playing.”
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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