Dhoni’s blistering innings went in vain, Rajasthan beat Chennai by 3 runs

CSK vs RR IPL 2023 Match 17: The 17th league match of the 16th season of IPL was played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Chepauk Stadium. In this match, the Chennai team got a target of 176 runs, after which the Chennai team could only manage to reach the score of 172 runs in 20 overs and had to face defeat by 3 runs. In this match, Chennai captain Dhoni definitely played an inning of 32 runs in 17 balls but it proved to be insufficient to win the team.

Rituraj returned soon Kanve got Rahane’s support first 6 45 made in overs Run

Chasing a score of 176 runs, the pair of Devon Conway and Rituraj Gaikwad landed on the field to start the innings for the Chennai Super Kings team. This time the pair could not give a good start to the team and the Chennai team got the first blow on the score of 10 in the form of Gaikwad, who became the victim of Sandeep Sharma on a personal score of 8.

After this, Kanve got the support of Ajinkya Rahane and together they worked to bring the team’s score back to 45 runs in the first 6 overs with the loss of 1 wicket.

Chennai lost Rahane’s wicket at crucial time and Rajasthan made comeback

The pair of Devon Conway and Ajinkya Rahane continued to score runs at a steady pace, but on the score of 78, the Chennai team got the second blow in the form of Rahane. Ravichandran Ashwin got Rahane out LBW on a personal score of 31 at a crucial time. Kanve and Rahane saw a partnership of 68 runs in 43 balls for the second wicket.

With Ajinkya Rahane returning to the pavilion, the Rajasthan team got a chance to make a comeback in this match. Ashwin gave the third blow to CSK on his score of 92 in the form of Shivam Dubey, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 8 runs.

Kanve also returned to the pavilion after completing his half-century.

The Chennai team, which lost 3 wickets on the score of 92, expected a big innings from Devon Conway. At the same time, the team also lost the wickets of Moin Ali and Ambati Rayudu on the scores of 102 and 103. Devon Conway completed his half-century in this match but after playing an inning of 50 runs in 38 balls, he became the victim of Yuzvendra Chahal.

The pair of Dhoni and Jadeja made the match exciting but could not win

Ravindra Jadeja and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni started handling the innings of the Chennai Super Kings team, which lost 6 wickets on the score of 113, after which both of them started taking the team towards victory. The Chennai team needed 21 runs in the last over to win. Dhoni made the match very exciting by hitting 2 sixes in this over, but in the end Chennai had to face defeat by 3 wickets.

Dhoni played an unbeaten inning of 32 runs in 17 balls in this match, while Jadeja’s bat saw an inning of 25 runs in 15 balls. In bowling for Rajasthan, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin took 2-2 wickets while Adam Jampa and Sandeep Sharma took 1-1 wickets.

Butler scored a half-century in Rajasthan’s innings, Great finish by Hetmyer

If we talk about the innings of the Rajasthan team in this match, once again we got to see the wonder of Joss Butler’s bat. Butler played an inning of 52 runs in 36 balls in this match. Apart from this, Shimron Hetmyer, who came out to bat in the last over for Rajasthan, played an unbeaten inning of 30 runs in 18 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. In the Rajasthan innings, Ashwin scored 30 and Devdutt Padikal also played important innings of 38 runs.

In 20 overs, the Rajasthan Royals team managed to reach the score of 175 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. In bowling for Chennai Super Kings, Ravindra Jadeja took 2 wickets with giving only 21 runs. Apart from this, Tushar Deshpande and Akash Singh also took 2-2 wickets in their names.

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