The day is finally here as Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings are locking horns in the battle for survival. The Thursday game which is being played at DY Patil stadium is seeing 9th place Chennai take on 10th place Mumbai. Both teams need a win for the miniscule hope to make the top 4, a loss for either team will all but certainly put them out of the tournament. Mumbai have lost all 6 games in the tournament so far and Chennai have a single win out of the 6 they have played.
Ishan Kishan falls to a beautiful Yorker from Choudhary –
Chennai won the toss and chose to bowl first, with Mitchell Santner and Pretorious coming in place of Moeen Ali and Chris Jordan. Mumbai got in Daniel Sams for Fabian Allen. Riley Meredith and Hrithik Shokeen made their debut for Mumbai replacing Murugan Ashwin and Tymal Mills. The very first over saw action aplenty as Rohit Sharma was out for a duck to continue his poor from with the bat. The last ball of thew 1st over saw Mukesh Choudhary bowl a yorker to Ishan Kishan. The 15.25 crore batter was on his haunches as the ball skid past to remove his off pole.
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— Pritam Biswas (@pritambiswas_18) April 21, 2022
Mumbai Indians had recently put up short video of Arjun Tendulkar bowling a yorker length delivery to Ishan Kishan. The batsmen missed the line of the ball and saw the ball crash into the stumps. It seems even Chennai Super Kings were watching this with close attention as the 140 KPH thunderbolt from Choudhary went past the defenses of Kishan. The score at the end of 1st over read 6 for 2. It was soon 23 for 3 when Brevis tried to give the left arm pacer the charge and got a thick edge behind the stumps to Dhoni.
At the time of writing this article Mumbai were in dire straights at 27 for 3 from 4 overs with SKY batting on 20 and Tilak Varma on 2.