Chennai Super Kings became the second team to be knocked out of the race for IPL 2022 playoffs. The writing had been on the wall for CSK, although they were clinging on by the thinnest of margins, but Mumbai Indians played the role of party spoilers on Thursday at the Wankhede Stadium.
The El Clasico of IPL didn’t disappoint at all even though both teams were virtually out of the race for playoffs, but MI and CSK produced a surprising see-saw battle, wherein Rohit Sharma’s men emerged victorious.
CSK were restricted to their second-lowest ever total in IPL of 97 runs courtesy of some brilliant bowling from Daniel Sams. His first wicket of the day, Devon Conway might felt a bit unlucky with DRS not available during the initial overs due to a power-cut at the Wankhede.
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But from then on, there was no way back for CSK. Their bowlers did put up a valiant effort to scalp four wickets early in MI’s inning to give them a major scare, but Hrithik Shokeen and Tilak Varma’s crucial knocks helped their side over the line.
#MumbaiIndians register their third win of the season!
The Rohit Sharma -led unit beat #CSK by 5 wickets to bag two more points.
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 12, 2022
Chasing 98 for victory, Mumbai Indians were in trouble at 33/4, losing their top batters Ishan Kishan (6) and skipper Rohit Sharma (18) cheaply.
However, sensible batting by young middle-order batter Thilak Varma (34 not out, 32 balls, 4×4), Hrithik Shokeen (18, 23 balls, 2 x 4), and Tim David (16 not out, 7 balls, 6 x 2), helped Mumbai Indians reach 103/5 and register their third victory in 12 matches.
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This was Mumbai’s third win in 12 matches and took them to six points while CSK slumped to their eighth defeat and remained on eight points from 12 games, thus ending their slim hopes of making it to the last four.
With inputs from IANS
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