Moeen Ali mentioned he has no points along with his spin getting used sparingly by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the Chennai Super Kings all-rounder helped his group to victory over Lucknow Super Giants within the Indian Premier League on Monday.
The 35-year-old didn’t bowl towards defending champion Gujarat Titans, who received by 5 wickets, of their match opener however claimed 4-26 towards Lucknow as Chennai secured a 12-run win in a high-scoring contest the place either side breached 200.
Dhoni astutely marshalled his spin sources with Moeen and Mitchell Santner sharing 5 wickets between them and conceding 47 runs of their eight mixed overs to tilt the sport in Chennai’s favour.
“I tried to bowl like I do in test cricket and just spin it as hard as I can,” the England participant mentioned after gathering the Player of the Match award.
“They have big hitters so you don’t want to get it up there against these guys but we had a good (bowling) partnership so it was nice to get the win.”
With all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja additionally within the squad, Chennai boasts a formidable spin assault and Moeen was assured Dhoni would get the most effective out of them.
“MS knows what he’s doing. The great thing about bowling under MS is he knows when to bowl players,” Moeen mentioned.
“I’m not going to bowl all the time with Jadeja in there. I think it’s going to take partnerships and individuals to stand up and win games.”
England Test captain Ben Stokes, who’s managing a knee harm and didn’t bowl towards Gujarat, bowled one over conceding 18 runs.
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The Chennai bowlers conceded three no balls and 13 wides towards Lucknow and Dhoni mentioned they needed to lower down on the additional deliveries.
“Or they’ll have to play under a new captain,” the previous India skipper added.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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