Chennai Tremendous Kings skipper MS Dhoni heaped praises on Matheesha Pathirana after the debutant scalped two massive wickets in his maiden IPL sport. The Sri Lankan speedster, who’s fondly referred to as junior Lasith Malinga, registered 2/24 for CSK within the 62nd match of the event in opposition to the Gujarat Titans.
CSK made 4 adjustments to their aspect and Pathirana was roped in as a alternative participant after New Zealand’s Adam Milne needed to make an exit from the league owing to an harm. Although Pathirana ended up on the dropping aspect, he was sensible together with his tempo when he scalped Shubhman Gill and Hardik Pandya.
“With Pathirana, the margin of error is slim. He’s obtained a superb slower one and it is going to be robust to hit him if he bowls constant tempo. We’ll look to provide folks possibilities. We try to characteristic a superb XI and can look to try this within the coming video games additionally,” stated Dhoni through the post-match presentation.
Batting first wasn’t an excellent thought: MS Dhoni
Dhoni had gained the toss and elected to bat first, however his determination backfired when GT restricted them to only 133 runs in 20 overs and scalped 5 wickets. CSK batters confronted a horrible time on the crease as they struggled to attain massive. The worst got here within the last 5 overs after they did not hit a single boundary and saved working between the wickets. Talking of the choice, Dhoni stated:
“Batting first wasn’t an excellent thought. It was robust to hit the quicker bowlers within the first half, spinners-wise it was related. Sai bowled properly.”
Speaking about how the sport panned out, Gujarat Titans gave a troublesome time to CSK as they’d an higher hand from the beginning. Ruturaj Gaikwad introduced up his half-century and N Jagadeesan additionally had a superb run, however their efforts have been simply not sufficient to take the scoreboard to a giant whole. Chasing 134, Titans’ opener Wriddhiman Saha remained unbeaten, scoring 67 (57) as GT bagged their tenth win of the season, preserving their No. 1 place on the factors desk intact.
