With this win, CSK has jumped to fourth position in the points table with two wins and a loss and four points. On the other hand, MI is at eighth position in the points table, having lost both of their games so far
MI finished their innings at 171/7 with Tilak being the one-man army, unbeaten at 84 off 46 balls, with nine fours and four sixes. Arshad Khan was unbeaten at 15 off 9 balls. The duo put on 48 for the eighth wicket.
Mumbai Indians will start its IPL 2023 campaign from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) from April 2 onwards. MI will play their first home game against Chennai Super Kings on April 8.
It was indeed a different version of Suryakumar batting on Lucknow pitch as in a rare case, he failed to cross the strike rate of 100 and ended his innings at an SR of 83.87
The bounce and turn on the Lucknow wicket was such that both sides struggled to score runs. Even T20 specialists like Finn Allen and Suryakumar Yadav struggled to strike at their usual strike rate. 10-15 extra runs from Kiwis could have pushed India to go harder with the bat
The match was an extremely low-scoring affair and saw both sides struggling for runs on a spin-friendly track. Even a chase of 100 runs went down till the last over.
India got off to a poor start as in the very first over of the innings Michael Bracewell dismissed Ishan Kishan for 4. In the second over of the game, Men in Blue lost their second batter as Rahul Tripathi returned to the pavilion
In a video posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Dhoni was seen interacting with the skipper Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Washington Sundar among others
Following his match-winning double century in the first ODI against New Zealand, rising India batter Shubman Gill said he was not thinking of scoring a double century initially but the sixes he hit in the 47th over made him feel that he could score one.