Dhoni’s great performance
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) suffered a defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their home ground Chepock after 17 years. Although the team lost, 43 -year -old Mahendra Singh Dhoni once again won the audience’s heart with his performance. Dhoni scored an unbeaten 30 in 16 balls while batting at number-9.
Fast innings played at a strike rate of 187.50
In this innings of Dhoni, he hit 2 sixes and 3 fours and scored at a strike rate of 187.50. With this innings, Dhoni also took a big record. He has become the highest run -scorer in the IPL for Chennai Super Kings.
Raina’s record broken
After this match against RCB, Dhoni’s IPL has 4699 runs in 236 matches for CSK. With this, he left behind Suresh Raina’s record, who scored 4687 runs in 176 matches for CSK.
Dhoni could not win the team
Despite Dhoni’s innings, Chennai Super Kings could not reach the target. The team chased the target of 196 and scored just 146 runs and lost by 50 runs. This was RCB’s first win in Chepock that came after 2008, ie after a long gap of 17 years.
Dhoni’s IPL data
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has scored 22 half -centuries so far for Chennai Super Kings, batting at the IPL at a strike rate of 139.43 and an average of 40.50.
CSK’s top run scorers
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 236 matches, 4699 runs
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Suresh Raina – 176 matches, 4687 runs
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Faf du Plessis – 92 matches, 2721 runs
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Rituraj Gaikwad – 68 matches, 2433 runs
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Ravindra Jadeja – 174 matches, 1939 runs
Rajat Patidar’s important role in RCB’s victory
In this match, Captain Rajat Patidar scored 51 off 32 balls for RCB. Apart from him, Phil Salat scored 32 off 16 balls and Virat Kohli scored 31 runs from 30 balls. Josh Hazlewood dismissed Rahul Tripathi and Rituraj Gaikwad in their first over and gave the initial shock to Chennai, which could not handle the team.
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