MS Dhoni winds back the clock as he almost took Chennai over the line while chasing 21 runs in the last over. Dhoni could not finish it off in style in his 200th game as Chennai skipper.
The last over drama
Defending 21 against other batters might be relatively easy. But with the stature of Dhoni and the growth of Jadeja as a finisher in the last 2 years, it was not a cakewalk for the bowler. Sandeep Sharma bowled 2 wides to begin the last over and showed some signs of nerves.
Dhoni with his fast hands through the ball produced 2 flat sixes to bring CSK back into a winning position. The first six was hit so flat and hard that it raced away to the boundary in no time. Sandeep missed his yorker again and Dhoni pounced on the low full toss to hit it beyond the mid-wicket boundary.
But Sandeep smartly switched around the wicket and executed his yorkers on point. With 2 pinpoint Yorkers, it came down to 5 runs from 1 ball with Dhoni on strike. Sandeep Sharma again produced a yorker under pressure to give Rajasthan a crucial 2 points.
Prasidh Krishna, who was injured, was replaced in the Rajasthan Royals lineup for the IPL 2023 by veteran Punjab seamer Sandeep Sharma. Prasidh, a dependable bowler for the Royals, is out following lower-back surgery. Sandeep, who has 114 wickets from 104 IPL games at an economy rate of 7.77, had a fortunate break since he went unsold at the auction.
In their IPL 2023 encounter on Wednesday, Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by three runs thanks to a half-century from Jos Buttler and two-wicket hauls from Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Ashwin.
With numbers of 2/25, Ravichandran Ashwin was the best RR bowler on display. As Rajasthan Royals batted first and recorded a challenging 175 for 8, Jos Buttler scored 52 off 36 balls.
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