IMAGE: Mumbai Indians’ Nehal Wadhera is bowled by CSK pacer Matheesha Pathirana. {Photograph}: BCCI
It has been an odd season for Mumbai Indians, who’ve blown cold and hot in IPL 2023.
Whereas in some video games they’ve provide you with some dominating performances and utterly outplayed their opponents, in others they’ve been on the receiving finish of some heavy defeats.
It was one other forgettable outing for Mumbai Indians towards Chennai Tremendous Kings this season as they suffered a six-wicket thrashing in Chennai on Saturday.
In reality, this was solely the second time within the historical past of IPL that CSK had crushed Mumbai Indians in each the league video games in a season, having final executed the identical manner again in 2014.
CSK additionally continued their good latest run towards MI, registering the fourth victory towards them within the final 5 matches.
IMAGE: Rohit Sharma miscued the inside track shot off Deepak Chahar and was caught on the off-side. {Photograph}: BCCI
Mumbai’s batting flopped huge time as they got here undone towards the CSK tempo trio. Rohit Sharma, who has struggled for runs this season, demoted himself to No 3 however fell for his second successive duck as he tried a rash scoop shot towards Deepak Chahar, however may solely miscue a easy catch to Ravindra Jadeja at level.
Rohit has tallied 184 runs in 9 matches this season with only one 50 at a strike price of 129.
It was a horror begin for Mumbai, who misplaced Cameron Inexperienced (6) to Tushar Deshpande within the second over, earlier than Chahar despatched again Ishan Kishan (7) and Rohit within the area of 4 deliveries within the subsequent over.
It was a physique blow for MI, who struggled to get again on observe after the poor begin. They have been reeling on 34/3 after the six overs of Powerplay.
And when Suryakumar Yadav fell to Ravindra Jadeja for 26, there was no coming again for the guests.
IMAGE: Tushar Deshpande celebrates the wicket of MI opener Cameron Inexperienced. {Photograph}: BCCI
The younger Nehal Wadhera battled onerous for his half-century however CSK’s dying overs specialist Matheesha…
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