Chennai Super Kings Batted 171 for 5 in 15 overs (Conway 47, Dube 32*, Mohit 3-36). Gujarat Titans 214 for 4 (Sudharsan 96, Saha 54) by five wickets by the DLS method
At 1:35 am on the third day of a T20 game, the Chennai Super Kings emerged as the new IPL champions, winning their fifth title, level with the Mumbai Indians.
Ravindra Jadeja broke the silence of tens of thousands as he hit the final two balls in an incredible, chaotic, incredible quest for boundaries. One right in front of him. The other behind. An equation of 171 from 15 overs reduced 13 from one. Mohit Sharma made it even more difficult – 11 from 3. CSK hadn’t reached a limit in 13 balls. However, they had lost two wickets. One of them was MS Dhoni for a duck.
It looked like it would be his last appearance on a cricket pitch. He will soon be 42 years old. He said preparing for IPL at his age took a “heavy toll”. When he walked in, Ahmedabad broke the sound barrier. When he left, the crowd was stunned.
But an hour and a half later, they watched as their hero, after suffering in the rain and enduring difficult landings and landings off the ground, took the podium and collected his fifth IPL trophy. As the winning runs were achieved, in a rare display of emotion, Dhoni wrapped his arms around Jadeja and lifted him cleanly off the ground. It meant so much to him. It even convinced him to keep playing for another year. However, this would not have been possible without the influence of Ambati Rayudu. He tweeted that this would be his last IPL match. As he left, ESPNcricinfo’s forecaster guessed that CSK only had a 35% chance of winning. He beat Mohit by 6, 4 and 6 and with those three hits his team became the overwhelming favorite – 93%.
Ravindra Jadeja finished the job for CSK with a six and a four on the last two balls•AFP/Getty Images
The highlights
The IPL finals started on May 28th. No ball was thrown due to rain. Then it was pushed back to May 29th. Due to further weather interference, two hundred and ten balls took six hours to bowl.
B Sai Sudharsan made the final the spectacle it was. The 21-year-old boy from Chennai brought it to his hometown franchise, hitting 96 runs on 47 balls. Mohit managed to go the distance. He came back from Rayudu attack to take two wickets in two balls.
Later, when he was under the most pressure a player can be under – throwing the last over with an IPL final on his shoulders – he hit three perfect off-stump Yorkers that just couldn’t be beat.
The Super Kings were shored up by another strong opening partnership from Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway. But as the field spread – after four overs – things got more difficult for them. Especially against Noor Ahmad. The 18-year-old wrist spinner on the left arm didn’t concede a single border hit in a 3-0-17-2 phase. However, his Afghan teammate was ailing.
Rashid Khan was about to finish his spell well. The first four balls of his last over went over just three runs. The rest went for 12. Shivam Dube got the balls he wanted and smashed them both for sixes.
CSK had to play 6, 6, 6, 4, 6 between the 12th and 13th over to progress in this game. They were behind until that five-ball sequence. Imagine if you were the titans now. Those five balls—and then the final two—ultimately decided their fate.
Ambati Rayudu was the only man alongside Rohit Sharma to win six IPL titles.•BCCI
Finally they roar for Jadeja
At the end of the league phase, Jadeja had a batting average of 149.47 between overs 15 and 20. This is the lowest of the 14 finishers who had at least 75 balls in this phase. His closest competitor for a place on the Indian team in T20 cricket – Axar Patel – was 175.55.
To make matters worse, every time he fell he was greeted by the noise of the crowd roaring like a man for the oncoming batsman. dhoni It got to the point where he lashed out at the fans, jokingly of course, and in response, the next time he walked in the middle, the Chepauk DJ played a song called Mannippaya, which in Tamil means ‘Will you forgive me ” means ?
Jadeja only had six balls in the final. He was only in the goal area 13 times. No boundaries were broken during his stay…until the penultimate ball. A Yorker who was inches behind Mohit was knocked to the ground and then the last ball, another attempted Yorker that became a deep, full throw, thrown to the left by Short Fine.
Chennai would have roared like a man. This time for Jadeja.
The Blind Man by Rayudu
CSK needed 73 of 36. Eleven balls, two fours and a wicket later they needed 55 of 25 and that’s exactly what Rayudu came up with. In his IPL career, which began in 2010, he has played 204 games. This season he had to play a reduced role. He started out as CSK’s impact sub. None of his innings lasted more than 17 balls. Still, he kept telling his teammates in the dressing room that he would win the final for them. Deepak Chahar made this clear by cutting off Rayudu himself during an interview with the host broadcaster.
The second six he hit was particularly impressive. From a slower ball into the wicket meant to throw the batsman off balance but Rayudu kept his ball and smashed it over extra cover. As far as cameo appearances go, this 19 out of 8 movie will be remembered for a long time.
B Sai Sudharsan hit six sixes in his 47-ball 96•BCCI
The forgotten hero
Sudharsan came on from a stomping that Dhoni managed in 0.1s to get rid of Shubman Gill. He was 10 of 12 with no boundaries after 11 overs. He was the man who had to retire in Qualifier 2 so the Titans could get a better ball forward. But even that night they let Sudharsan bat until the start of the 20th over and only then pulled him out. You trust this guy. You trust all of your people. That’s her whole thing.
Sudharsan seems to understand his limitations. And that gives him his power. He can’t hit sixes like Tim David or Suryakumar Yadav. Even those he is able to meet seem to have asked a lot of him. The racquet goes as high as it can on the backlift and smashes to the ground. He doesn’t hold anything back because he knows he can’t afford it.
Defensive bowling is all about protecting one side of the field. Usually the side of the leg. That’s why most teams station more men in the deep there. With the T20, hitting the ball is an instinct.
But Sudharsan is different. He’s a really good offside player. On Monday he found six of his eight fours there. Two of these were a slap in the face to CSK’s plans. In the 17th, Sudharsan created space with midfield and cover-ups and Tushar Deshpande’s attempt to pull him up in the middle and up the leg, flattening two nice borders where he knew he didn’t need power. Placement only.
This was part of a three-over period in which he hit all of the Titans’ limits – three sixes and five fours. If a batsman sacks both sides of the wicket, the opponent breaks up.
No CSK bowler was spared. Not even Matheesha Pathirana. He’d gone through entire games – 9 out of 14 – without giving away as many runs as tonight to just one player. Sudharsan beat the Sri Lankan sensation with 34 in 14 balls.
Alagappan Muthu is an editor at ESPNcricinfo