length ball on middle, Wood backs away and slaps this flat over extra cover for six. Extraordinary shot, if only it mattered to the final result. CSK hold on by 12 runs.
CSK vs LSG, 6th Match at Chennai, IPL, Apr 03 2023 - Match Result
11.32 pm CSK give the home fans something to crow about after being away for nearly four years due mainly to Covid reshuffling. Emotional win.
Rummy: "Those 2 sixes hit by Dhoni in the last over is probably the difference between the two teams. "
LSG captain KL Rahul: "Obviously not the most ideal start after winning the toss and putting them into bat. The bowlers said it was sticky and moving a bit so there was something in it for them but they didn't put it in the right areas. When you have quality batters in the opposition, they will make you pay. Conway and Ritu played some brilliant shots so it's something for us to learn and get better at. When you bowl first on a fresh wicket, it takes a bit of time to understand what a good pace and line to bowl is on that wicket. Six overs going for 70-odd is probably what cost us the game in the end, but I can't pinpoint one thing. There were phases of the game that we didn't win and let it slip away. Kyle Mayers has come in with some real good form. I was watching some games that West Indies played and he was smoking the ball. It's good to see him come here with the same approach. In Lucknow, he hit the ball a mile and he did the same today. It's good to see what he's done with the opportunity. Bish also did very well. It's good to see different players putting their hands up to give us the best chance to win the game and that's something for us to take forward in the tournament. I think we were in the game in the second half quite a lot and got off to a really good start but lost a few wickets and kept pressing on. It's not often that you'll get 4 or 5 batsmen caught on the boundary. If a few of them had gone over, we would have been on the winning side. Sometimes in T20, those margins don't go your way."
CSK allrounder Mitchell Santner: "It was obviously a pretty good wicket to bat on. Both Powerplays looked challenging for the bowlers. We tried to tie it up in the middle. It was nice to see Moe getting wickets and I tried to tie it up at the other end. With the boundary dimensions, you want to get it to the big side bowling very wide. I'm used to that in New Zealand playing on one side of the block all the time. It's a privilege to play any game so I always try to do my best. Maybe as the tournament goes, we might play a couple more spinners but on your home patch, you want to defend it so it's good to win tonight. I had fun memories back in 2019 so it was nice to play back in front of these people and they make it pretty loud. It's a privilege to play in front of them."
CSK captain MS Dhoni: "It was a terrific game, high-scoring game. All of us were thinking how the wicket will be. We had that doubt. It was a high-scoring game. Overall I think it was a perfect first game that happened and it was a full house for the first game in 5 or 6 years since we've been here. I thought it will be much slower. It was a wicket where you could score runs but overall it got a bit slower. We'll have to see how it plays over the next six games at home but hopefully we can score here. It's the fast bowling that will need to slightly improve and bowl according to the conditions. Even if it's on the flatter side, force batters to hit over the fielders. They'll have to bowl no no balls and less wides. We are bowling too many extra deliveries and need to cut them out otherwise they'll be playing under a new captain."
Player of the Match goes to Moeen Ali for his 4 for 26 and 19 off 13 with the bat: "It's not easy. It was a tough one because obviously they have big hitters. I tried to bowl like I do in Test cricket and just spin it as hard as I can. They have big hitters so you don't want to get it up there against these guys but we had a good [bowling] partnership tonight so it was nice to get the win. MS knows what he's doing. The great thing about bowling under MS is he knows when to bowl players. I don't think I would have bowled myself last game either. As a spinning allrounder, it keeps you in the game and you want that. I'm not going to bowl all the time with Jadeja in there. I think it's going to take partnerships and individuals to stand up and win games."
That's it for tonight's coverage. Come back tomorrow for more live IPL action. Until then, take care!
full on sixth stump, drives high over wide long-off, one bounce over the rope.
length ball on fifth stump, goes to drive inside out and misses.
full on middle, skies a drive high in the air swirling wide of Dhoni's right. He shuffles over toward the edge of the ring at short third to take a simple catch.
length ball follows him backing away from leg stump and clears both an inside out drive and leg stump.
121 kph slower ball full on off stump, launches this high over midwicket and it plops dead well short of the boundary rider for two.
yorker speared into the legs, can't flick this away and a leg bye goes to point for one. The siren goes off! No ball called on an overstep. The crowd is aghast!
bouncer outside off, wide called on height.
CSK too slow bowling their overs so now they've been penalized with one more fielder being required to come into the circle.
full toss on the wide guideline at knee height, shuffles way across his stumps to scoop this over backward square leg. Diving stop on the rope for two.
full on eighth stump, drives to wide long-off for two.
goes for yorker on fifth stump, sends in an ankle high full toss that is reverse scooped over third man. Gaikwad charges across from the rope at deep third man to stop this just inside the rope to save two valuable runs.
full and way outside the guideline, Gowtham drives hard at this but it's well out of reach. Wide called again.
full and wide, goes to drive and misses again as this one slides just inside the guideline.
full and outside the wide guideline, another wide called.
full and wide hugging the guideline, goes to drive and misses.
wide yorker, sprayed outside the guideline for another free extra.
full and wide on the guideline, slices a drive skied high toward Jadeja at point sweeper. If it was a World Cup or IPL Final, he'd have put in a dive but he stays on his feet after charging in and lets it short hop him for a single.
length ball on the stumps, flicked to the leg side for one.
full on off, miscues a drive down the ground to long-off for one.
back of a length on fifth stump, shuffles across to punch to long-on for one.
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MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai | |
Toss | Lucknow Super Giants, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2023 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 03 April 2023 - night (20-over match) |
LSG Player Replacement | Impact player: in, out (1st innings, 18.6 ov) |
CSK Player Replacement | Impact player: in, out (1st innings, 19.6 ov) |
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Match Referee | |
Points | Chennai Super Kings 2, Lucknow Super Giants 0 |
Over 20 • LSG 205/7