-Vinay Kumar
On Sunday, April 3, against Punjab Kings (PBKS), the extremely slow batting of CSK’s batsman and former dashing missing Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni) broke the hearts of his fans present in the country and the world. Among them, Bhishma Pitamah of the cricket world and great cricketer Sunil Gavaskar were also involved.
Yesterday there was a clash between Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings. Batting first, Punjab Kings scored 180 runs and gave a target of 181 runs to CSK to win. Chennai Super Kings entered the field chasing the target, but Teemanka’s top batting order failed miserably. After that, when the former captain of the team MS Dhoni came into the field holding the bat, the team’s score was 36 runs for 5 wickets.
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Earlier in the two matches played in this season, MS Dhoni had batted well, but he failed in this match. Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a disappointing innings of just 23 runs in 28 balls. Commenting on Dhoni’s slow innings, cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar said, “It’s like with MSD (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) that if he doesn’t play big shots, he keeps changing the strike and takes 1 or 2. keep converting. He didn’t seem to be able to do so this time. This is where CSK (Chennai Super Kings) got stuck.”
In this match against PBKS, while MS Dhoni was seen struggling a lot, young all-rounder Shivam Dubey played a tremendous innings of 57 runs in 30 balls. On playing with Shivam Dubey, who was batting on the pitch in this match, Sunil Gavaskar said, “Look at some of the dot balls that he (MS Dhoni) played. It was a high class innings of Shivam Dubey. Unfortunately, no one could stick with him on the pitch. Even MS was a bit out of his game with a strike rate of 80.
Significantly, in the latest season of IPL 2022, Chennai Super Kings had to face the third consecutive defeat on Sunday. Punjab Kings added another win to their account with excellent bowling. Earlier in this latest season, Chennai Super Kings have lost the match to CSK and KKR. There is talk of increasing tension for the new captain of CSK, Ravindra Jadeja. Now the next match of CSK will be against Sunrisers Hyderabad (Sunrisers Hyderabad SRH) on 9 April.