Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Wednesday added one other feather to his illustrious cap as he grew to become the primary wicketkeeper to have an effect on 150 dismissals within the historical past of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Dhoni achieved the distinctive feat within the IPL 2021 match in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday (April 21) on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
The 39-year-old reached the milestone after taking catches to dismiss Eoin Morgan and Nitish Rana off the bowling of Deepak Chahar. The pacer took 4 wickets inside powerplay to scale back KKR to 31/4 in 5 overs.
Interestingly, KKR’s former skipper Dinesh Karthik is the second-best wicketkeeper with 112 catches and 31 stumpings in IPL.
Notably, Dhoni additionally broke a big jinx through the match as he hit his first-ever boundary off KKR’s ace spinner Sunil Narine within the IPL historical past.
It is value mentioning that Dhoni slammed his first boundary off Narine whereas dealing with his sixty fifth supply.
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Talking concerning the match, Andre Russell’s cracking 22-ball 54 and Pat Cummins’ unbeaten 66 off 34 balls went in useless as Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 18 runs in a high-scoring thriller on Wednesday to make it three wins in a row within the ongoing IPL 2021.
Earlier, Faf du Plessis’s unbeaten 95 (off 60 balls) and his 115-run partnership with Ruturaj Gaikwad (64 off 42 balls) powered Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to 220/3 in 20 overs.
CSK had raced to 54 with out loss within the first six overs as KKR’s determination to open the bowling with spinner Varun Chakravarthy and Pat Cummins didn’t materialise.
Cummins, in reality, was the toughest hit of all of the KKR bowlers as he conceded 58 runs in his 4 overs, together with 19 within the final over.
The South African du Plessis, who hit 9 fours and 4 sixes, additionally shared a 50-run partnership with Moeen Ali (25 off 12 balls) as CSK reached 155/1 after the tip of 16 overs.
After Ali’s dismissal, skipper MS Dhoni chipped in with 17 runs off eight deliveries. The former India skipper hit a six and a 4 — by an edge — off India pacer Prasidh Krishna’s bowling.
But it was du Plessis who stole the present. He hit three consecutive fours off Andre Russell in a single over within the nineteenth over after which adopted it up with two sixes off Cummins within the final over.
Earlier, du Plessis and Gaikwad had taken 15 runs off Pat Cummins’s first over.
KKR’s determination to play Kamlesh Nagarkoti instead of Harbhajan Singh did not repay because the seamer conceded 25 runs in his two overs.
Chakravarthy was the perfect bowler for KKR making a gift of 27 runs in his 4 overs and selecting the wicket of Gaikwad. Sunil Narine took one for 34 in his 4 overs.
