New Delhi. In the 29th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Chennai Super Kings (Chennai Super Kings – CSK) defeated Mumbai Indians (Mumbai Indians – MI) by 20 runs and got their fourth win. Is registered. The MI team could not achieve the huge target of 207 runs to win at the Wankhede Stadium despite Rohit Sharma’s excellent century (105*). MI team could only score 186/6 after playing the entire overs.

Ajinkya Rahane (5) and Rachin Ravindra (21) could not do anything special from CSK. After this, Shivam Dubey (66*) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (69) scored half-centuries. In the end, Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored unbeaten 20 runs and took the team’s score to 206/4. In reply, Rohit and Ishan Kishan (23) gave a good start to MI. Tilak Verma (31) also played a useful innings in the middle order. Despite Rohit’s struggle till the end, MI could not achieve the target.

CSK, who came to bat first after losing the toss, got the first blow on 8 runs. After that, opener Gaikwad made an important partnership of 52 runs with Rachin (21) and 90 runs with Shivam for the third wicket. He completed his half-century in 33 balls. This was the 16th half-century of his IPL career. He became the victim of Hardik Pandya after scoring 69 runs in 40 balls with the help of 5 fours and 5 sixes in the innings. During his half-century innings, Gaikwad also completed his 2,000 runs in IPL.

Dubey, who came to bat in the middle order, played an unbeaten half-century of 66 runs in 38 balls. He thrashed the opposition bowlers in his familiar style. This was Shivam’s 8th half-century of IPL career and second half-century of this season. Similarly, this was his first half-century against MI, which he completed in 28 balls. He has scored 242 runs this season at an average of 60.50 and strike rate of 163.51.

During the last over of CSK’s innings, Dhoni hit sixes on his first 3 balls to bat and took the team’s score beyond 200. He scored unbeaten 20 runs on 4 balls. Meanwhile, he has become only the second batsman for CSK to complete 5,000 runs (including Champions League T20).

Chasing the target, Rohit batted aggressively from the beginning, due to which MI scored 63 runs without losing any wicket after the powerplay. He hit one attractive shot after another and completed his century in 61 balls. This was the second century of his IPL career. He scored unbeaten 105 runs on 63 balls, which included 11 fours and 5 sixes.

Pathirana opened his account of wickets in the match by giving the first blow to MI in the form of Ishan Kishan (23) at a total score of 70 runs. After this, he gave the second blow in the same over by getting Suryakumar Yadav (0) caught by Mustafizur Rahman. After this, he also dismissed Tilak (31) and Romario Shepherd (1) and pushed MI on the backfoot. Pathirana took 4 wickets while giving 28 runs, which is his best performance.