No one like Dhoni: 17 runs were needed in the last over, six and two fours to win

Posted on 22nd Apr 2022 by rohit kumar

In IPL 2022, Chennai Super Kings registered a thrilling victory in the last over against Mumbai Indians on Thursday. The hero of this victory was none other than Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the number-1 one finisher.

 

CSK had a target of 156 runs and the team needed 17 runs in the last over. MS Dhoni and Dwayne Pretorius were present at the crease. Jaydev Unadkat came to bowl the last over for Mumbai. What happened on every ball of the last over, first know this...

 

19.1: On the very first ball of the over, Unadkat gets Pretorius out LBW. Mumbai got this wicket on DRS. Now Dwayne Bravo comes to bat.

 

19.2: On the second ball, Bravo flicks it towards a deep square leg and takes a single.

 

19.3: Now Dhoni was on strike... On the third ball, he made a wonderful six towards the site screen and gave life to the match.

 

19.4: On the fourth ball, MS hits a four at short fine leg.

 

19.5: 5th ball Unadkat bowls a yorker on the middle stump, on which Mahi flicks towards deep square leg and steals 2 runs. Now Chennai needed 4 runs in 1 ball.

 

19.6: On the last ball, Dhoni gave a memorable win to CSK by hitting a four at deep square leg.

 

In 2019 too, Unadkat had hit a hat-trick six

 

In the IPL of 2019 too, Dhoni had beaten Unadkat a lot. At that time Dhoni had hit 3 consecutive sixes in an over of Jaydev. Unadkat was part of the Rajasthan Royals team at that time and Dhoni was the captain of CSK. In the match, Mahi played an unbeaten 75 off 46 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes.

 

Against Jaydev Unadkat, MS Dhoni has so far scored 105 runs in 8 innings of IPL at a strike rate of 244.18 and has lost only once.

 

Mahi is in good shape this season

 

In the very first match of this season, Dhoni scored an unbeaten 50 in 38 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders. In 6 innings of IPL 2022, he has scored 120 runs at an average of 60. During this, he was also not out 4 times.

 

Chennai's second win

 

This is Chennai's second win in 7 matches. The team has faced defeat in 5 matches. Currently, on the points table, CSK is in the 9th position with 4 points. At the same time, this is Mumbai's 7th consecutive defeat. This season the team has not won a single match so far. Mumbai Indians will have to win the remaining seven matches if they want to survive in the race for the play-offs.

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