It’s time for Whistle Podu as Chennai Super Kings snatched victory Mumbai Indians in the opening match of the 11th edition of IPL at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.
With this victory, Men in Yellow has made a dream comeback in the Indian Premier League by crushing the Rohit Sharma-led side by one-wicket.
Meanwhile, When CSK needed just 7 off the last over, Indian batsman Kedhar Jadhav sweeped Mustafizur Rehman for a six in the 2nd last ball of the match and scored the winning runs off the last ball to finish the match in style. The 33-year-old Maharashtra batsman played an unbeaten knock of 24 runs to gift CSK fans a memorable win in the first IPL match.
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Chasing 166, Chennai Super Kings looked dead at 8-118 in the 17th over when swashbuckling batsman DJ Bravo decided to take charge and started raining sixes at MI’s bowling attack. The West Indies-all rounder smashed 7 huge and 3 fours to score 68 of just 30 balls leaving the Wankhede crowd and MI fans in a state of absolute shock.
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In the 19th over the 34-year-old showed no mercy to yorker specialist Jasprit Bumrah and smashed 3 sixes before being dismissed on the last ball of the over.
Moreover, skipper MS Dhoni to praise Bravo for his innings, he said, “The way Bravo batted, it was really good to see him take the responsibility. ”
Focusing, on the positives, he said, “Don’t think we batted well as a team. But it’s the first game, so we’ll take the positives out of it.”
Well! the West-Indian batsman made the Defending IPL Champions realize that Who is Boss!
It’s a great day for MS Dhoni and CSK fans as the Whistle Podu Army register their first win in VIVO IPL 2018. Don’t forget to comment!
