IPL 2024 CSK vs KKR Highlights: Chennai Super Kings allrounder Ravindra Jadeja who struggled to find his form back made an exceptional return with the ball and picked 3 wickets in 4 overs at an economy of 4.50 against KKR.
Jadeja Tumbles KKR Batters With His Spin Attack
After missing Matheesha Pathirana, Chennai Super Kings have included their inform overseas bowler Mustafizur Rahman in their playing 11 against KKR. Mustafizur missed CSK’s last encounter with SRH owing to a VISA process.
On the other hand, CSK also included Shardul Thakur for the first time in their playing11 this season. Sameer Rizvi who kickstarted his IPL 2024 campaign with a SIX also made his way back into the squad.
While Kolkata Knight Riders who won all their games of the IPL 2024 season so far will face Chennai Super Kings with the same playing11 which defeated Delhi Capitals by a whopping 106 runs.
Speaking on the game, CSK won the toss and elected to bowl first where Phil Salt and Narine opened the inning on behalf of KKR.
Chennai Super Kings’ opening bowler Tushar Deshpande dismissed Phil Salt for GOLDEN Duck and made an early breakthrough. Notably, Phil becomes the fifth KKR batter to be dismissed on the first ball of a match.
Though CSK made an early wicket, KKR’s batter posed a great threat for the CSK. But Ravindra Jadeja dismissed dangerous Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi for 27 and 24 runs respectively and announced his return in style.
Following the duo’s dismissal, KKR struggled to build a partnership and lost their wickets to CSK bowlers at a regular interval. Tushar Deshpande on the other hand, dismissed KKR’s dangerous duo Rinku Singh and Russell for 9 and 10 runs respectively and restricted KKR to score 137 runs for 9 wickets loss at the end of 20 overs.
Rachin Ravindra and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened the inning for CSK to chase down the 137 runs target. Vaibhav Arora made an early breakthrough and dismissed Ravindra for just 15 runs.
Following his dismissal, Daryl Mitchell and Shivam Dube scored 25(19) and 28(18) runs respectively and moved CSK to a steady side.
Though CSK lost a couple of wickets at one end, their skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad made a steady inning and scored 67 runs off 58 deliveries and paved the way for CSK to register their third victory of the season.
IPL 2024 CSK vs KKR Highlights
Kolkata Knight Riders Batting
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Phil Salt †| c Jadeja b Deshpande | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sunil Narine | c Theekshana b Jadeja | 27 | 20 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 135 |
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | lbw b Jadeja | 24 | 18 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 133.33 |
| Shreyas Iyer (c) | c Jadeja b Mustafizur Rahman | 34 | 32 | 62 | 3 | 0 | 106.25 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | c Mitchell b Jadeja | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 37.5 |
| Ramandeep Singh | b Theekshana | 13 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 108.33 |
| Rinku Singh | b Deshpande | 9 | 14 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 64.28 |
| Andre Russell | c Mitchell b Deshpande | 10 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Anukul Roy | not out | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Mitchell Starc | c Ravindra b Mustafizur Rahman | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vaibhav Arora | not out | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Chennai Super Kings Bowling
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Tushar Deshpande | 4 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 8.25 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Mustafizur Rahman | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 5.5 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Shardul Thakur | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Maheesh Theekshana | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 4 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 4.5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Rachin Ravindra | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chennai Super Kings Batting
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Rachin Ravindra | c Varun b Arora | 15 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 187.5 |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad (c) | not out | 67 | 58 | 83 | 9 | 0 | 115.51 |
| Daryl Mitchell | b Narine | 25 | 19 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 131.57 |
| Shivam Dube | b Arora | 28 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 155.55 |
| MS Dhoni †| not out | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
Kolkata Knight Riders BowlingÂ
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Mitchell Starc | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 9.66 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Vaibhav Arora | 4 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anukul Roy | 1.4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 10.8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 7.5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Varun Chakravarthy | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Andre Russell | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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