CSK vs LSG / Chennai's first win this season, beat Lucknow by 12 runs

CSK vs LSG: 4-time champion Chennai Super Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 12 runs in the sixth match of Indian Premier League-16. Chennai, after losing the toss and batting first on their home ground Chepauk after almost four years, scored 217 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. The team also did the feat of scoring 200+ for the 24th time in IPL. In reply, Lucknow batsmen could only manage 205 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Turning points of the match

• Century partnership of Chennai openers CSK openers gave a strong start to the team by making a century partnership. The pair of Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway shared a 110-run partnership on 56 balls. This was the third century partnership of these two in 9 innings.
• Giving 10th over to Ravi Bishnoi Lucknow captain KL Rahul delayed bowling to Ravi Bishnoi. He got a chance to bowl the 10th over. Ravi took 3 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs bowling. He could have been bowled after the powerplay. Mark Wood also got three successes, but Wood spent 49 runs.
• Moin Ali took 4 wickets Moin Ali bowled accurately. He first broke the opening partnership by dismissing Lucknow opener Kyle Mayer (53 runs). Then KL Rahul (20 runs) was also made to walk. He also broke the back of the middle order by dismissing Krunal Pandya (9 runs) and Marcus Stoinis (21 runs). Tushar Deshpande and Mitchell Santner did the rest of the work.

Gaikwad-Conway's third century partnership in 9 innings

CSK's Rituraj Gaikwad scored his second consecutive fifty in this season of IPL. He got out after scoring 57 runs in 31 balls. In this innings he hit 4 sixes and 3 fours. He also shared a 110-run partnership with Dwayne Conway. This is the third century partnership between the two in 9 innings. Conway became the victim of Mark Wood in the next over on a personal score of 47 runs.

Mayor first player to score fifty in first two matches

Kyle Meyers got out after scoring his second consecutive century. He has become the first player in IPL history to score fifty in the first two matches.

Lucknow's wickets fell like this

• First: On the third ball of the sixth over, Moeen Ali got Kyle Mayer caught by Conway.
• Second: On the last ball of the seventh over, Santner got Deepak Hooda caught by Stokes.
• Third: On the second ball of the eighth, Moin Ali got captain KL Rahul caught by Gaikwad.
• Fourth: On the last ball of the 10th over, Moin Ali got Krunal Pandya caught by Ravindra Jadeja.
• Fifth: Moin Ali bowled Stoinis on the second ball of the 14th over.
• Sixth: On the last ball of the 16th over, Tushar Deshpande got Nicholas Pooran caught by Ben Stokes.

Chennai scored 200+ for the 24th time

Lucknow won the toss and elected to bowl at the Chepauk Stadium and Chennai, batting first, scored 217 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. The team has scored 200+ for the maximum number of 24 times. In the last over, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit two consecutive sixes on the ball of Mark Wood, who was throwing the last over.

Rituraj Gaikwad played an inning of 57 runs on 31 balls. While Dwayne Conway contributed 47 runs. Shivam Dubey and Ambati Rayudu scored 27-27 runs. Mark Wood and Ravi Bishnoi took 3-3 wickets.

This is how Chennai's first wicket fell

• First: Ravi Bishnoi caught Rituraj Gaikwad at the hands of Wood on the first ball of the 10th over.
• Second: On the second ball of the 11th over, Krunal Pandya caught Dwayne Conway's amazing catch on Mark Wood's ball.
• Third: On the 5th ball of the 14th over, Ravi Bishnai got Shivam Dubey caught by Mark Wood.
• Fourth: Ravi Bishnoi got Moin Ali stumped by Puran on the second ball of the 16th over.
• Fifth: On the last ball of the 17th over, Avesh Khan got Ben Stokes caught by Yash Thakur.
• Sixth: On the first ball of the 20th over, Mark Wood got Ravindra Jadeja caught by Ravi Bishnai.
• Seventh: On the fourth ball of the 20th over, Mark Wood got Mahendra Singh Dhoni caught by Ravi Bishnai.

Dhoni completes 5000 IPL runs

Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 12 runs in Chepauk with the help of 2 sixes in 3 balls. Along with this, he also got 5000 runs in IPL. He became the 5th Indian and 7th player overall to do so. Dhoni took 237 matches for this. Dhoni hit both the sixes in his innings in the 20th over itself. He is at number one among the players who hit the most sixes in the 20th over of IPL. He has a total of 55 sixes in his name. After him, Kieron Pollard has 33 sixes, Ravindra Jadeja has 26 and Hardik Pandya has 25 sixes. Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is at number five in this list with 23 sixes.

Third century partnership in 9 innings

CSK's Rituraj Gaikwad scored his second consecutive fifty in this season of IPL. He got out after scoring 57 runs in 31 balls. In this innings he hit 4 sixes and 3 fours. He also shared a 110-run partnership with Dwayne Conway. This is the third century partnership between the two in 9 innings. Conway became the victim of Mark Wood in the next over on a personal score of 47 runs.

Explosive start in Powerplay

Electing to bat first after losing the toss, Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway gave an explosive start to CSK. Both made 79 runs without loss in 6 overs of powerplay. This is the biggest powerplay score ever in Chepauk. Earlier in 2018, CSK had scored 75 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders.

See, the playing-11 of both the teams...

Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Devon Conway, Rituraj Gaikwad, Ben Stokes, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar and Rajvardhan Hungergekar.

Impact Players: Ajinkya Rahane, Prashant Solanki, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjit Singh.

Lucknow Supergiants: KL Rahul (Captain), Kyle Mayers, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krishnappa Gautam, Krunal Pandya, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan and Yash Thakur.

Impact Players: Jaydev Unadkat, Amit Mishra, Krishnappa Gautam, Karn Sharma, Prerak Mankad.