NEW DELHI: It was MS Dhoni mania as soon as once more, this time on the Ekana Stadium because the Chennai Tremendous Kings talisman pulled off an unimaginable 9-ball 28 not out cameo, delighting the Lucknow followers on Friday.
The hosts had saved issues below management earlier than Dhoni and Moeen Ali (30 off 20) went on a six-hitting spree on the loss of life to take CSK to a combating 176 for six.
However regardless of leaking runs within the remaining over, Lucknow Tremendous Giants restricted Chennai to a average complete after which pulled off the chase comfortably with 6 balls to spare.Skipper Rahul led from the entrance with a whirlwind 53-ball 82 as Lucknow beat CSK for his or her fourth win of the season.
After the match, KL admitted that his bowers leaked additional runs on the loss of life as they had been swayed away by Dhoni’s presense within the center. Rahul admitted that his younger bowlers received below strain by the Dhoni’s presence.
“160-165 would have been splendid however yah once more its MSD (smiles). He walks in and the strain will get to the bowlers. That is the presense and intimidation he has had over groups and bowlers. We’ve got a younger staff and I believe it was the primary time they had been put below strain by enormous determine like MS. Crowd was actually relly loud. However I nonetheless thought they caught to their plans. He’s a phenominal participant to nonetheless hit them for sixes. Yeah, 15-20 runs additional however we knew if we bat nicely we are able to chase it down,” Rahul mentioned on the post-match presentation.
Rahul, the chief, had a superb day in workplace as he was spot-on along with his bowling adjustments and in addition took two catches and affected a stumping earlier than returning to smash a match-winning 82.
“Feels good on the finish of the day, While you win, appears such as you make all the selections proper,” mentioned Participant of the Match Rahul.
“Not possible to get all proper. Depends upon the sort of wicket we’re enjoying on and the sort of batters there are. We spend time doing homework on techniques and technique and we spoke about them not settling in opposition to one model of bowling,” he added.
Chasing 177, Rahul (82) and De Kock (54) batted with authority throughout their match-winning alliance of 134, the best partnership for any wicket on the Ekana Stadium, as LSG scored 180 for two in 19 overs.
“Felt that if we bat nicely, we might chase it down. I’ve been attempting to evaluate the state of affairs and at present it got here off. With Chennai’s spinners, they tried to place brakes on us,” Rahul mentioned.
“We tried to get to a superb begin. Tried to take them down, fortunately it got here off. When your partnership goes on, you may take a couple of extra probabilities. Glad that it occurred.”
Ruturaj Gaikwad, the CSK captain, mentioned his staff was 10-15 runs brief with dew coming in.
“We completed off very nicely, could not have requested for extra. However after powerplay, we could not kick on until 14-Fifteenth over. We misplaced wickets commonly and had been 10-15 brief.
“Barely troublesome to bat however with Impression Participant rule you want an additional batter. With dew approaching later, felt 180-190 might have been good.”
CSK bowlers could not produce a breakthrough as Rahul and De Kock batted nicely within the powerplay and Gaikwad agreed they wanted to bowl higher within the first six overs.
“[Bowling in the powerplay] is one space we want to enhance, places opposition on the again foot if we are able to get wickets within the powerplay. Good to play them once more quickly, will come again with homework completed,” he mentioned.
The 2 groups will once more face off on April 23 at Chepauk.
(With inputs from PTI)
The hosts had saved issues below management earlier than Dhoni and Moeen Ali (30 off 20) went on a six-hitting spree on the loss of life to take CSK to a combating 176 for six.
However regardless of leaking runs within the remaining over, Lucknow Tremendous Giants restricted Chennai to a average complete after which pulled off the chase comfortably with 6 balls to spare.Skipper Rahul led from the entrance with a whirlwind 53-ball 82 as Lucknow beat CSK for his or her fourth win of the season.
After the match, KL admitted that his bowers leaked additional runs on the loss of life as they had been swayed away by Dhoni’s presense within the center. Rahul admitted that his younger bowlers received below strain by the Dhoni’s presence.
“160-165 would have been splendid however yah once more its MSD (smiles). He walks in and the strain will get to the bowlers. That is the presense and intimidation he has had over groups and bowlers. We’ve got a younger staff and I believe it was the primary time they had been put below strain by enormous determine like MS. Crowd was actually relly loud. However I nonetheless thought they caught to their plans. He’s a phenominal participant to nonetheless hit them for sixes. Yeah, 15-20 runs additional however we knew if we bat nicely we are able to chase it down,” Rahul mentioned on the post-match presentation.
Rahul, the chief, had a superb day in workplace as he was spot-on along with his bowling adjustments and in addition took two catches and affected a stumping earlier than returning to smash a match-winning 82.
“Feels good on the finish of the day, While you win, appears such as you make all the selections proper,” mentioned Participant of the Match Rahul.
“Not possible to get all proper. Depends upon the sort of wicket we’re enjoying on and the sort of batters there are. We spend time doing homework on techniques and technique and we spoke about them not settling in opposition to one model of bowling,” he added.
Chasing 177, Rahul (82) and De Kock (54) batted with authority throughout their match-winning alliance of 134, the best partnership for any wicket on the Ekana Stadium, as LSG scored 180 for two in 19 overs.
“Felt that if we bat nicely, we might chase it down. I’ve been attempting to evaluate the state of affairs and at present it got here off. With Chennai’s spinners, they tried to place brakes on us,” Rahul mentioned.
“We tried to get to a superb begin. Tried to take them down, fortunately it got here off. When your partnership goes on, you may take a couple of extra probabilities. Glad that it occurred.”
Ruturaj Gaikwad, the CSK captain, mentioned his staff was 10-15 runs brief with dew coming in.
“We completed off very nicely, could not have requested for extra. However after powerplay, we could not kick on until 14-Fifteenth over. We misplaced wickets commonly and had been 10-15 brief.
“Barely troublesome to bat however with Impression Participant rule you want an additional batter. With dew approaching later, felt 180-190 might have been good.”
CSK bowlers could not produce a breakthrough as Rahul and De Kock batted nicely within the powerplay and Gaikwad agreed they wanted to bowl higher within the first six overs.
“[Bowling in the powerplay] is one space we want to enhance, places opposition on the again foot if we are able to get wickets within the powerplay. Good to play them once more quickly, will come again with homework completed,” he mentioned.
The 2 groups will once more face off on April 23 at Chepauk.
(With inputs from PTI)
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