IPL 2021: Shardul Thakur gave away 53 runs in 3.4 overs towards Delhi Capitals on Saturday.© BCCI/IPL
Chennai Tremendous Kings began their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 marketing campaign with a seven wicket loss to Delhi Capitals on the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Regardless of placing up a complete of 188/7 from their allotted 20 overs, CSK misplaced the match with eight balls to spare. Delhi Capitals’ Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw slammed half-centuries to setup the chase and a bit of cameo from Marcus Stoinis helped Delhi recover from the road within the nineteenth over. After the match, CSK skipper MS Dhoni was important of his bowlers’ execution in the course of the recreation, saying they bowled too many boundary balls that allowed the opposition to attain freely.
“In terms of our bowling, we might’ve achieved barely higher. If the batters are hitting you over your area and no matter plans you have set. I really feel that is truthful sufficient however there have been fairly just a few boundary deliveries the place you aren’t actually trying to bowl. The execution was not very good,” Dhoni mentioned on the post-match presentation.
Deepak Chahar, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran all proved to be costly. Shardul Thakur gave away over 50 runs in 3.4 overs.
Dwayne Bravo was the one bowler who saved issues tight, making a gift of simply 28 runs from his quota of 4 overs.
Dhoni additionally backed his bowlers to come back good within the upcoming video games.
“I really feel the bowlers would’ve discovered they usually’ll put together significantly better for the approaching video games,” Dhoni added.
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The CSK skipper additionally highlighted how dew performed an enormous issue within the match. Dhoni mentioned that if the dew stays like this within the coming matches, group organising a goal might want to get at the least 200 on the board to remain within the contest.
“7.30 begin means opposition can have much less quantity of dew and we have now to attain these 15-20 runs additional. After that you might want to get early wickets additionally. Properly, if we hold persistently getting dew, 200 is one thing all groups take note of,” Dhoni concluded.
