Chennai. In the 39th match of IPL 2024, Chennai Super Kings faced Lucknow Super Giants. In this match, captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his first century in this season of IPL and due to his innings, Chennai scored 210 runs after losing four wickets in 20 overs. Rituraj faced 60 balls and hit 12 fours and three sixes in his unbeaten innings of 108 runs. He was well supported by Shivam Dubey who hit three fours and seven sixes in his swashbuckling innings of 66 runs in 27 balls. Ruturaj and Dubey made a partnership of 104 runs in 46 balls for the fourth wicket. The team’s veteran batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni remained unbeaten on four runs after playing one ball. For Lucknow, Matt Henry, Mohsin Khan and Yash Thakur got one wicket each.

Gaikwad’s half century in 28 balls

Gaikwad completed his half-century in 28 balls by taking one run off Krunal. This was Ruturaj’s 17th score of 50+ for Chennai Super Kings as an opener in IPL. He has come on top in terms of scoring more than 50 most times for this team. He left Faf Duplessis behind. Duplessis did this 16 times. This was Ruturaj’s 17th score of 50+ for Chennai Super Kings as an opener in IPL. He has come on top in terms of scoring more than 50 most times for this team. He left Faf Duplessis behind. Duplessis did this 16 times.

Ruturaj became the first player to complete 2000 runs as an opener for Chennai Super Kings. At the same time, he became the 21st player to complete 2000 runs as an opener in IPL. Jadeja and Gaikwad played cautiously and the team completed 85 runs for two wickets in 10 overs. The team’s 100 runs were also completed in the 12th over. Meanwhile, Jadeja was struggling to score runs and taking advantage of this, Jadeja got caught by wicketkeeper Rahul off the ball of Mohsin while attempting a long shot. Both of them made a partnership of 52 runs in 39 balls for the third wicket. Chennai had scored 135 runs after losing three wickets in 15 overs.

Rituraj completed 100 runs in 56 balls

Rituraj scored a century in 56 balls with a four off Yash’s ball in the 18th over. He hit one six and two fours in this over. Chennai was successful in scoring 18 runs in this over. His second century in IPL. Rituraj has scored both the centuries for Chennai only. He came joint first with Murali Vijay and Shane Watson in terms of scoring most centuries for this team. Vijay and Watson also scored two centuries each for Chennai.

Rituraj scored 108 runs

Rituraj played an unbeaten inning of 108 runs in 60 balls with the help of 12 fours and three sixes. His strike rate was 180. This was the fifth best individual score for CSK. Murali Vijay is at the top in this matter. He played an inning of 127 runs against Rajasthan in 2010. Watson is at second place with 117 runs and Michael Hussey is at third place with 116 runs. Vijay is again in fourth place with 113 runs.

Ruturaj overtakes Dhoni

Ruturaj has taken charge of Chennai in only eight matches so far, but in a short span of time he has left behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who captained CSK for a long time. Ruturaj has become the captain with the biggest innings by any CSK captain in IPL. Earlier this record was in the name of Dhoni, who had won the IPL for the team five times.

Dubey hit a hat-trick of sixes, completed his half-century in 22 balls.

On the other hand, Shivam also continued to bat aggressively. Targeting Yash who came to bowl the 16th over, he hit a hat-trick of sixes. He increased the run pace and Chennai scored 19 runs in this over. Shivam supported captain Ruturaj well and played aggressively from the beginning. He completed his fifty runs in 22 balls by hitting a six on the fourth ball of Mohsin of the 19th over. This was his ninth half-century in IPL. Shivam hit a long six on the leg side on the very first ball of Stoinis, who came to bowl the last over of the innings. Then he was run out on the fourth ball.

After this Dhoni came to bat and he got only one ball to play on which he hit a four. The team scored 48 runs in the last 18 balls and lost one wicket. In this way Chennai scored 210 runs. CSK scored 200+ for the 34th time in T20 cricket. They have become the team to score the most number of 200+ scores in men’s T20 cricket. Chennai equaled county team Somerset in this matter. Chennai Super Kings team has scored 200+ 31 times in IPL. They have done this five times more than second-ranked Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bengaluru has done this 26 times.

Record partnership between Shivam-Rituraj

Shivam and Rituraj made a partnership of 104 runs in 46 balls for the fourth wicket. This is the third highest partnership for Chennai Super Kings for the fourth wicket or below. Dhoni and Badrinath are at the top of this list. Both of them had made a partnership of 109 runs against Kolkata in 2010. At the same time, at second place is the pair of Dhoni and David Hussey. Both of them had made a partnership of 108 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014.

Dubey’s strike rate is the best for CSK

Shivam Dubey played a stormy inning of 66 runs in 27 balls with the help of three fours and seven sixes. He has so far scored 1018 runs in 33 innings for Chennai Super Kings at an average of 37.7 and strike rate of 161.07. This includes eight half-centuries. His highest score is 95 runs. So far 13 batsmen have scored more than a thousand runs for Chennai. Among these, Shivam has the best strike rate. Only Dubey’s strike rate for Chennai is more than 140. His average is the fourth best. Ahead of him are Michael Hussey (42.09), Ruturaj Gaikwad (41.26) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (40.69).