CSK crowned champions of IPL 2023 after a 5-wicket win (D/L) over Gujarat Titans

[Justcrazy]

OUT

early wicket , Convoy gone.

 

[Justcrazy]

Rahane looks like a different player when playing under Dhoni

 

[Justcrazy]

23 from that over ,

Rahane 36 from 14 balls, what a turnaround by Rahane.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Jinx is putting on a classical vintage show at Wankhede.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Wankhede is such a good batting surface especially while batting second. They need a spinner to be on .

 

[Champ_Pal]

What happened to Rahane? Did someone from MI insult his height? He is taring it up.

 

[jnaveen1980]

What happened to Rahane? Did someone from MI insult his height? He is taring it up.

This is his backyard. He can still bully bowlers here.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Not one ugly shot from Jinx. Everything was classical.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Match is over for MI. Too easy for CSK.

 

[Champ_Pal]

This Arshad Khan looks like another trundler from Unadkat factory.

 

[Smbhayi]

Wow Rahane.. 52 off just 19 balls

 

[jnaveen1980]

This Arshad Khan looks like another trundler from Unadkat factory.

He touches 140k. But these are terrible balls on this pitch. Doesn't matter if he bowls 5k extra speed.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Gorgeous 50

 

[jnaveen1980]

KL Rahul hardly showedintent like this

 

[Champ_Pal]

Sad to know last years IPL find Mohsin Khan is not playing IPL this year due to injury. The one bright upcoming pacer has been injured for close to 1 year now.

 

[Champ_Pal]

He touches 140k. But these are terrible balls on this pitch. Doesn't matter if he bowls 5k extra speed.

He is bowling in upper 120's and low 130's. May be the odd ball touches 140. Has all the trademarks of a classic trundler.

 

[Champ_Pal]

KL Rahul hardly showedintent like this

He is a mental midget. Skills of a lion, mindset of a jackal.

 

[Justcrazy]

Brilliant partnership , MI completely out played here .

 

[Justcrazy]

Chawla finally gets Rahane , but it is too late

 

[Smbhayi]

Rahane throw his wicket away, was batting very well, 100 was there to take .

 

[Rana]

Chawla should be playing legends cricket not IPL

 

[Justcrazy]

Super Kings need 50 runs in 50 balls.

The game is over now.

 

[jnaveen1980]

CSK trounced MI in their own den. Rare feat. Often times they lost to MI here.

 

[Saj]

Today was all about one man. One man who came out of syllabus and ended up smashing the fastest IPL fifty of the season. And he did so with pure cricketing shots, not one slog, not one shot in anger.

A loud clarion call from Ajinkya Rahane that he is not yet finished!! Rahane couldn’t stay the course, but he did enough to leave the result to just a mere formality. Shivam Dube came out and played a few big shots, but then chopped one back onto his stumps.

Ruturaj stayed till the end, as impact sub Rayudu joined him to finish the game off. A big boost to NRR as well for CSK

 

[MenInG]

Latest points table

 

[Abhilash93]

Sad to know last years IPL find Mohsin Khan is not playing IPL this year due to injury. The one bright upcoming pacer has been injured for close to 1 year now.

Not only Mohsin, several other genuine fast bowlers including Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Sen etc are injured. And seems like Kartik Tyagi and Nagarkoti are not getting any chances so far.

 

[MenInG]

Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 13th Match

Gujarat Titans have won the toss and have opted to bat

Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Rashid Khan(c), Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), N Jagadeesan, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Suyash Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy

 

[Smbhayi]

Wow 3D man striking above 220

 

[Rana]

Shankar beast mode

 

[jnaveen1980]

Un-Shankar innings. He looked a hopeless player and his career was done. Recently 3 back to back 100s in domestic. So he is in good form.

 

[Rana]

Jee oye Shankar

Zindabad Puttar

 

[Smbhayi]

Vijay Shankar 63 off 24 deliveries.. wow didn't expect that from him.. he showed he can hit biggies..

 

[Smbhayi]

Un-Shankar innings. He looked a hopeless player and his career was done. Recently 3 back to back 100s in domestic. So he is in good form.

Problem with him he don't slog/loft, today he slogged and it worked..

 

[Rana]

Shankar looks as fit as Pandya too. Transformed player!

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Sometimes I think this is an absolute pointless competition . Indian selectors just don't give any weight to these performances.

2021 was the biggest example of this. You just had an IPL in UAE conditions which just proved that the likes of Rohit, Kohli, Kishan, Ash, Bhuvi and Shardul are not the best players at the time for those conditions and we selected them anyway for World T20 in UAE.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Jagadeesan Indian bazballer in domestic in recent times. He and Sai Sudarshan were batting first class games like t20 games.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Gurbaz is the T20 batsman with ideal temperament especially as an opener. No real sighters

 

[jnaveen1980]

Sometimes I think this is an absolute pointless competition . Indian selectors just don't give any weight to these performances.

2021 was the biggest example of this. You just had an IPL in UAE conditions which just proved that the likes of Rohit, Kohli, Kishan, Ash, Bhuvi and Shardul are not the best players at the time for those conditions and we selected them anyway for World T20 in UAE.

Even in T20 India selects players based on reputation, seniority. Not form or ability.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Jason Roy is another option they can try

 

[jnaveen1980]

Nervy inings of Jagadeesan comes to an end

 

[Champ_Pal]

Even in T20 India selects players based on reputation, seniority. Not form or ability.

Perfectly said. IPL performances may help bowlers to get a chance in national side. For batsmen, there is zero chance. Certain batting positions are taken for life and they will never be vacated.
Very disappointing for youngsters.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Venkatesh Iyer's international T20 strike rate is 162. But he lost his way to injury and IPL form.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Rashid up against two of the finest players against spin. IT totally neutralized his potency.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Great knock from Iyer has come to an end

 

[jnaveen1980]

Match ups can often decide T20 result. Rashid was up against two capable players against spin. Went for runs. Now 4th over against Dre Rus. He may change the game around.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Dre Russ dismissed first ball.. wow.. Game is changing

 

[jnaveen1980]

2 in 2 for Rashid.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Rashid Khan hatrick

 

[Champ_Pal]

Rashid khan seals the match in 3 balls. Best T20 bowler ever.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Rashid khan seals the match in 3 balls. Best T20 bowler ever.

He is world no.1 ranked bowler for a reason. This is precisely why Iyer had to stay till Rashi does with hislast over.

 

[jnaveen1980]

This is why Dhoni is a master finisher lol. He always sees off these threats and waits for one pie over and goes after

 

[MenInG]

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings, 14th Match

Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and have opted to field

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, T Natarajan

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan(c), Prabhsimran Singh, Matthew Short, Jitesh Sharma(w), Shahrukh Khan, Sam Curran, Nathan Ellis, Mohit Rathee, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh

 

[jnaveen1980]

They coudl have just m ilked 6 singles of Rashid khan and gone after these guys. Strategical mistake by KKR. Winnable match

 

[jnaveen1980]

4 sixes in a row ! wow.

 

[jnaveen1980]

5 sixes in a row to win a match !! wow

 

[jnaveen1980]

What hitting under pressure. All very long sixes.

 

[jattafridi]

Kkr wow what a victory

 

[Rajdeep]

From where do we produce these trundlers )

Yash Dayal...if he has any shame left he would stop playing cricket from today

 

[jnaveen1980]

KolkataKnightRiders
@KKRiders
6 to win the match - Dhoni
6, 6 to win the match - Tewatia
6, 6, 6 , 6, 6 to win the match - ONLY RINKU SINGH!

 

[jnaveen1980]

From where do we produce these trundlers )

Yash Dayal...if he has any shame left he would stop playing cricket from today

MSD's words are golden words. He always thinks bowlers are under more pressure in last over than batsmen. They are more likely to miss the mark. That is pretty much what happened. Scrambled thinking. All he had to do was bowling wide yorker.

 

[Ab Fan]

From where do we produce these trundlers )

Yash Dayal...if he has any shame left he would stop playing cricket from today

No of IPL trophies won:-

Yash Dayal - 1
Virat Kohli - 0

Dayal 1-0 Kohli

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[jnaveen1980]

I remember Rohit Sharma hitting Mortaza for 26 runs in 20th over to win a match in one of the earliest IPL editions. Never seen anything like this in IPL history.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Last year Rashid khan smashed Marco jansen for 28 runs to win a match.

 

[jnaveen1980]

It is phenomenal that KKR has scored 200 plus back to back with Dre Russ not scoring anything.

 

[Rana]

Rinku Khushdil

 

[ethan hunt]

Rinku Singh. Nerves of steel but its ludicrous how India keeps producing these poor trundlers.

 

[Ab Fan]

Rinku Singh came close to doing something similar vs Lucknow last IPL too but Mayers took an unbelievable catch in the penultimate bowl.

 

[sam_ahm]

Lol, WTH was that!? How can a bowler not defend 28 runs off 5 balls!!??? This is hilarious

Well done to Rinku Singh though, he still had to hit it and he did!

Just about anyone is scoring runs this IPL.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Bhuvi's express deliveries of 124 kph are on display. Man this guy is completely relying on movement now.

 

[sam_ahm]

MSD's words are golden words. He always thinks bowlers are under more pressure in last over than batsmen. They are more likely to miss the mark. That is pretty much what happened. Scrambled thinking. All he had to do was bowling wide yorker.

What pressure? If they feel pressurized defending 29 off the last over when the opposition is 7 down then good luck playing cricket.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Lol, WTH was that!? How can a bowler not defend 28 runs off 5 balls!!??? This is hilarious����

Well done to Rinku Singh though, he still had to hit it and he did!

Just about anyone is scoring runs this IPL.

Exactly. Sometimes full tosses can be hard to hit for sixes if you lose shape. He was in stable position while executing all those 5 sixes.

 

[Champ_Pal]

The hell man. How did GT lose this?

Serves these IPL teams for selecting useless trundlers like Dayal.

 

[jnaveen1980]

What pressure? If they feel pressurized defending 29 off the last over when the opposition is 7 down then good luck playing cricket.

When he started his over he already had a bad day. After first six he was digging the hole deeper and deeper. I will give credit to Rinku for executing each and every six with precision. Sometimes batsmen may not be able to put away every ball for six.

 

[Rana]

The hell man. How did GT lose this?

Serves these IPL teams for selecting useless trundlers like Dayal.

They needed 38 off 10 I think and I went for a toilet break

Came down stairs and KKR won. I had to rewind live tv to witness this again! Absolutely stunned

The left armer had a poor game throughout the day

 

[Saj]

What an unbelievable finish to a game that was only just soaking up a hattrick from Rashid Khan a few overs ago.

There was the blistering knock from Venkatesh Iyer too. But this moment, this game, this evening belongs to Rinku Singh who has left everyone stunned. He ran straightaway towards the dugout in celebration but was stopped halfway by his skipper who's all over him.

And on the other hand there's Yash Dayal who's crestfallen. He had 29 to defend off the final over, and conceded a single off the first ball.

What followed will go down in folklore as one of the greatest ever finishes to a T20 game. Carlos Brathwaite did it all those years ago with four sixes. Rinku went one step further tonight.

 

[Smbhayi]

Oops missed rinku's finish.. just found out he finished the game off with 5 sixes in last 5 ball (was actually checking 2nd game score lol)..

 

[jnaveen1980]

Moment there is swing Bhuvi looks more useful.

 

[jnaveen1980]

REmarkably improved player this Jansen is. Recently he smashed Rashid for 25 odd runs in the SA league.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Battle between two young promising international all rounders. Curran vs Jansen

 

[cricketjoshila]

Rinku Singh has a very good domestic record.

Avgs 59.xx in Ranji
Avgs 53.xx in 50 overs

He is 25.

And Yash Dayal is his State and team mate. Rinku took him to nets today.