Indian Premier League

Bravo is a champion as CSK won thriller

IPL 2018

MATCH 1 REPORT MUMBAI INDIANS VS CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

CSK WON THE TOSS, Elect to bowl first Both the captains were looking for the field due to dew and marginally short boundaries and lightning outfield.

Mumbai Indians

Rohit and Lewis new opening combination but today not working, they struggle to score runs in power play Deepak Chahar got dangerous Lewis trapped LBW, Rohit Sharma also fall early and then young players Ishan Kishan and Suriya Kumar played very well start to build the innings scorecard ticking nicely AT HALFWAY MARK 65/2

Both the settled players started to accelerate they got 100 in 13 overs ,once they look dangerous Watson removed Suriya Kumar and next over Ishan Kishan also fall to Imran Tahir, with those 2 wickets CSK back into the game ,Pandya brothers up the batting order hardhik struggling in one end his elder brother playing good cameo ,once again bravo death over specialist done very good job for super kings ,mark wood not a impressive debut in ipl he gave 17th over 19 runs and 19 over 17 runs kurnal Pandya target him but bravo held the nerve and keep Mumbai Indians to below par score 165/4

Mumbai Indians

Kurnal Pandya 41(22)

Bravo 0/25 4 overs

Chennai super kings

Chasing 165 not difficult one in Mumbai ,they not get decent start Hardik Pandya get the breakthrough he got Watson very early in the chase 27/1 Then Raina join Rayadu once again Pandya got another wicket this time RAINA key for CSK, the end of powerplay 42/2 the Mumbai debut leggie back into the attack he strike Rayadu in his very first over then csk start to collapse Dhoni also trape in front of his pad unforgettable debut for Markande the young leggie almost match getting over for CSK.

But BRAVO played unbelievable innings 68 off 30, he hit 7 sixes, hit 3 sixes in penultimate over to bumrah made equation 7 ball 7 runs but he lose the wicket in 19th over lthe ast ball to bumrah then retried hurt player kedhar back to crease csk need 7 runs in last over last the wicket in hand Rahman bowling 3 dots in a row but the fourth ball kedhar scooped over fine leg for six then he drive extra cover for four finally csk won unbelievable match ,after 2 yrs ban they come back stronger .

Chennai super kings

Bravo 68(30)

Markande 3/23

H. Pandya 3/24

Result: Chennai super kings win by 1 wicket.