In the starting match of the thirteenth release of Indian Premier League (IPL 2020), Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets at the Sheik Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Chennai lost Murali Vijay and Shane Watson right on time into the innings however Faf du Plessis and Ambati Rayudu balanced out the inning with a 115-run association, making way for Chennai to enlist an agreeable triumph.
Prior, after a decent beginning, Mumbai Indians (MI) oversaw only 22 runs and lost three wickets in the last three overs as CSK limited to its main opponents for 162/9 while batting first.
Lungi Ngidi (3/38) struck twice in the penultimate over and Deepak Chahar (2/32) accepting one as the CSK put the breaks on the MI innings after the guarding champions were 121/3 toward the beginning of the fifteenth over.
After CSK commander MS Dhoni chose for field, chief Rohit Sharma (12) and his initial accomplice Quinton de Kock (33) got MI looking speedy so far. The pair set up 46 runs in the initial five overs before Rohit holed out to Sam Curran off Piyush Chawla (1/21). de Kock was excused in the exceptionally next over by Curran (1/28) with the last hitting the ball straight down the throat of Shane Watson at midwicket.
Saurabh Tiwary (42) and Suryakumar Yadav (17) kept the vessel consistent for the following five overs with the previous swindling Ngidi in the thirteenth over. Notwithstanding, the wheels began to tumble off for MI not long after that over with Ravindra Jadeja taking two wickets in the fifteenth over. Ngidi then returned the ‘demise’ overs to offer some kind of reparation for a costly one prior in the match as any semblance of Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard neglected to fire for MI.