Gaikwad, Mitchell fifties, Deshpande’s four-fer lead CSK to massive 78-run win

Riding on captain Ruturaj Gaikwadrsquos 98 Daryl Mitchellrsquos 52 and fastbowler Tushar Deshpandersquos superb fourwicket haul defending champions Chennai Super Kings broke their twomatch losing streak with a massive 78run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Match 46 of the Indian Premier League IPL 2024 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Sunday nightOn a dry pitch Gaikwad fell two runs short of becoming the second batter to hit backtoback IPL centuries while Mitchell got his maiden fifty in the tournament as the duo carried CSK to a huge 2123 in 20 oversIn reply SRH were never in it to chase it down and were eventually bowled out for 134 in 185 overs which is also their second straight attempt over not acing a batting second innings Deshpande struck thrice in Powerplay to pick IPLbest figures of 422 and lead a brilliant bowling performance for CSKMatheesha Pathirana Mustafizur Rahman two wickets each Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur one scalp each were also amongst the wickettakers for CSKThe big victory is also CSKrsquos 50th IPL win at Chepauk and it takes them from sixth to third place on the points table where they are now tied on 10 points with SRH Kolkata Knight Riders Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi CapitalsAlso ReadPant Samson in mix as wicketkeepers but no RahulGaikwad played riskfree shots and was solid in hitting 10 fours and three sixes at a strike rate of 18148 in his 54ball knock Mitchell finally came good after a lean start to the tournament by smashing seven fours and a six in his 32ball stay at the crease apart from sharing a 107run stand with GaikwadShivam Dubersquos unbeaten 20ball 39 laced with four sixes and a boundary was also helpful in CSK going past 200 on consecutive occasionsPushed into batting first CSK had a cautious start as they hit only two boundaries in 21 overs Ajinkya Rahanersquos poor run continued as he miscued to midwicket off Bhuvneshwar Kumar Gaikwad and Mitchell hit six boundaries between themselves in the rest of the Powerplay as CSK ended the phase at 501Mitchell finally hit CSKrsquos first six of the innings by lofting Cummins over longoff for six followed by Gaikwad getting his fifty in 27 balls pulling the pacer for a maximum over deep midwicket fence Mitchell upped his scoring version by driving slicing paddling lofting and scooping to get his fifty off 29 ballsBut Mitchell fell soon after falling for 52 off 32 balls after hitting a full toss from Jaydev Unadkat straight to deep midwicket Gaikwad went for hitting boundaries off slower deliveries and lowfull tosses and got ample support from Shivam Dube who smashed three sixes with his ferocious power and long leversBut Gaikwad struggled to find timing in the fag end of his innings and miscued a loft to deep midwicket off Natarajan in the final over A four for MS Dhoni and Dube flicking high over deep midwicket for six ensured CSK crossed 210 though they got only 20 runs in the last two oversChasing 213 Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma hit three quick boundaries before Deshpandersquos triple strikes derailed the SRH chase upfront On his slower wide ball Head holed out to deep pointImpact Player Anmolpreet Singh was undone by late movement and gave a leading edge to extra cover Abhishek Sharma was next to fall undone by a slower short ball which he sliced to point as SRH reached 533 at the end of powerplayCSK continued to put pressure on SRH when Nitish Kumar Reddy topedged a pull to MS Dhoni off Ravindra Jadeja followed by Matheesha Pathirana bowling a magnificent yorker to take out Aiden Markramrsquos middle stump Such was the tight grip held by CSK bowlers that SRH could hit only three boundaries in the middle oversPathirana struck again when Heinrich Klaasen didnrsquot get much elevation on a low full toss and holed out to longon while Abdul Samad hit straight to longoff against Shardul Thakur Deshpande got his fourth wicket when Pat Cummins holed out to longon and Mitchell took his fifth catch of the game when Shahbaz Ahmed whipped straight to him at square legCSK ended SRHrsquos innings in the 19th over when Moeen Ali grabbed a good low catch at the extra cover of Jaydev Unadkat to complete a massive win for the hosts despite a lot of dew being on the outfield in the second inningsBrief scoresChennai Super Kings 2123 in 20 overs Ruturaj Gaikwad 98 Daryl Mitchell 52 Bhuvneshwar Kumar 138 Jaydev Unadkat 138 beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 134 all out in 185 overs Aiden Markram 32 Tushar Deshpande 427 Matheesha Pathirana 217 by 78 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever