MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja.
Chennai Superkings misplaced the season opener to Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets.
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New period started at Chennai Superkings on a really unhealthy observe as they went onto lose the match by six wickets and 9 balls to spare. The battle was simply not there for the yellow brigade as they went onto lose well timed wickets within the day. Thanks to ex-skipper MS Dhoni, they did handle to achieve a rating of 131. Later as they got here out to bowl, they couldn’t decide wickets and acquired their first breakthrough solely after the scoreboard learn 43. The sport slowed down solely when Mitchell Santner bowled in tandem with skipper Ravindra Jadeja. Dwayne Bravo additionally took three wickets.
“Dew will be the vital part in this edition. If you win the toss, you will look to bowl first. The wicket was a little damp in the first 6-7 overs and then it came on nicely in the back end of the innings. We were trying to take the game deep. Everybody bowled well given the dew. Bravo bowled very well, said Jadeja in the post-match presentation.”
An excellent bowling efficiency adopted by an impactful batting effort helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by six wickets within the opening match of the IPL 2022 on the Wankhede Stadium, right here on Saturday. KKR bowlers — Umesh Yadav (2/20) and Varun Chakaravarthy (1/23) bowled nicely and restricted Chennai Super Kings to 131-5 regardless of a combating fifty by former captain MS Dhoni (50 off 38).
Ravindra Jadeja (26 off 28) who was main the CSK for the very first time appeared below stress whereas batting however former skipper Dhoni scored a well timed half-century and added 70 runs for the sixth wicket to take Chennai to a good whole. In reply, opener Ajinkya Rahane performed a superb knock (44 off 34) whereas Sam Billings (25), Nitish Rana (20) and Shreyas Iyer (20 not out) additionally made beneficial contributions with the bat as KKR chased down the goal in 18.3 overs with six wickets in hand.
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