IPL 2018, CSK vs MI: Dhoni's army looking for yet another win while Mumbai Indians save their face
Indian Premier League started three weeks back and it has been quite an interesting journey. New performers have come up, teams that looked strong on paper were defeated by those who looked weak. One such case is with Mumbai Indians, the team was arguably one of the strongest one but its performance so far suggests otherwise.
Mumbai Indians are going to clash with the Chennai Super Kings tonight. The teams have performed in an exactly opposite way. While CSK has been winning the games straight away and their performance been overwhelming. Mumbai have been witnessing drastic losses since the very start of the IPL whereas, CSK have been phenomenal in all the departments winning 5 of the 6 matches they have played.
While CSK seems to have found the magic to win all the matches, Skipper MS Dhoni's attack on the RCB bowlers in the last match has made today's clash even more interesting. CSK displayed the depth of their batting after losing 4 of their wickets at a score of less than 100. Dhoni along with Ambati Rayudu finished the almost impossible chase with two balls remaining.
For CSK, today's match is just a chance to register one more win for themselves and confirm their berth in the playoffs but for the Mumbai Indians, it may be a no way back match. For, Mumbai has been consistently sitting on one of the lowest spots in the points table and a few more losses would mean the end of the journey to the IPL title for the defending champions.
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni (C) (W), KM Asif Sam Billings Chaitanya Bishnoi Dwayne Bravo Deepak Chahar Faf du Plessis Harbhajan Singh Imran Tahir Ravindra Jadeja Kedar Jadhav Narayan Jagadeesan Kshitiz Sharma Monu Kumar Lungi Ngidi Suresh Raina Ambati Rayudu Mitchell Santner Kanishk Seth Karn Sharma Dhruv Shorey Shardul Thakur Murali Vijay Shane Watson David Willey Mark Wood
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah Rahul Chahar Ben Cutting Akila Dananjaya JP Duminy Ishan Kishan Siddhesh Lad Evin Lewis Sharad Lumba Mayank Markande Mitchell McClenaghan Adam Milne Mohsin Khan Mustafizur Rahman MD Nidheesh Hardik Pandya Krunal Pandya Kieron Pollard Anukul Roy Pradeep Sangwan Tajinder Singh Aditya Tare (W) Saurabh Tiwary Suryakumar Yadav
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