On today, Shane Watson scored the second century of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 season for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) towards Rajasthan Royals (RR) on the Maharashtra Cricket Association International stadium, in Pune. It was additionally his total third IPL century as CSK moved to their new house floor in fashion by producing a radical 64-run win over his former aspect RR. Ahead of the season, CSK have been pressured out of Chennai due to the Cauvery dispute. They have been pushed by Watson’s 106 from 57 balls to submit a mammoth 204/5 after being invited to bat first.
The seasoned all-rounder made full use of a dropped likelihood in the very first over on a flat MCA monitor. He then positioned himself properly towards brief and straight balls which have been smashed everywhere in the park. Watson’s 106-run entertaining knock was peppered with 9 fours and 6 sixes.
Watson additionally shared a 50-run partnership with fellow opener Ambati Rayudu (12) after which stitched an 81-run partnership for the second wicket with CSK’s talisman batsman Suresh Raina, who hit a fiery 46 off 29 balls that included 9 fours. Raina fell in the twelfth over to a Shreyas Gopal supply which left CSK on 131/2.
CSK then misplaced the wickets of MS Dhoni (5) and Sam Billings (3) with the addition of one other 30 runs. It was leggie Gopal once more, who struck to dismiss each the Chennai batsmen. Meanwhile, the Australian was in regal contact as he pummelled Royals bowlers after getting a lifeline in the opening over bowled by Stuart Binny. Royals skipper Ajinkya Rahane had used 5 totally different bowlers, who have been responsible of bowling both too full or brief and wanted to be disciplined for his or her line and size points.
Watson accomplished his century in the 18th over and saved the scoreboard ticking by including 41 runs with Dwayne Bravo to take CSK previous the 200-run mark. He was ultimately out on the penultimate ball of the innings.
In reply, RR misplaced wickets at common intervals and have been bundled out for 140 in 18.3 overs. Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Dwayne Bravo and Karn Sharma took two wickets every whereas Ben Stokes prime scored with 45 for RR.
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