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IPL 2022

Dhoni’s classy finishing touch, Rohit’s

duck misery and Shastri’s expectations

As the season gets into full flow, we bring to you all the action on and off the field

OUR BUREAU before the match against Punjab
Kings on Wednesday.
Navi Mumbai
The cloud over the IPL game was
ll cricket fans witnessed a very lifted an hour before toss time after
heartfelt moment on Thursday the BCCI confirmed that the match
Awhen Chennai Super Kings would go on despite a sixth Covid
skipper Ravindra Jadeja bowed down positive case being reported in the
to MS Dhoni after the latter brought Delhi camp on game day. Tim Siefert
his side to victory in his classic style returned positive in Wednesday’s RT-
finish against Mumbai Indians. PCR testing and became the sixth
Dhoni turned back the clock on COVID affected case in Delhi’s con-
Thursday scoring an unbeaten 28 tingent. Earlier, all-rounder Mitchell
from 13 balls to hand Chennai Super Marsh also tested positive and was
Kings their second win of IPL 2022 admitted to a hospital.
as they defeated Mumbai Indians “He said, we have to play the
by three wickets here at the Dr DY match anyway. So, we have two op-
Patil Stadium. The batter scored 17 tions -- you can think of the positive
runs in the last over, which was be- cases and keep wondering about what
ing bowled by Jaydev Undakat. Post- will happen to your preparations or
match, Jadeja was seen bowing down not worry about what is not in your
and paying his respects to the former control and prepare, stay committed
Chennai skipper for his unbelievable to the match,” Axar Patel said at the
knock. The video soon went viral on post-match press conference.
social media and garnered praise In the match, bowlers played a
from all over. key role for Delhi Capitals as they
Coming to the match, CSK won bundled out Punjab Kings for 115
the toss and followed the trend in this and their batters too pitched in
year’s tournament of bowling first. strongly, chasing the target inside 11
Mukesh Choudhary of CSK dis- overs at Brabourne Stadium here on
missed the openers for a duck in the Wednesday.
very first over. After this, MI fought David Warner plays a shot during a match against Royal Challengers Bangalore (ANI) “I have a great tunning with
hard with the help of Tilak Varma’s Ricky Pointing and Rishabh Pant
51 off 43 and managed to put up a followed by Mumbai Indians with a surpassed Piyush Chawal, Harbhajan they showed a lot of faith in me. In
total of 155. total of six wins. Singh, Mandeep Singh and Parthiv every game, I focus on what I should
The quick cameo from Pretorius do in my bowling so I can do my plan-
(22 from 14) was very crucial in the ROHIT SHARMA NOW HAS Patel to register this unwanted re- ning accordingly. And I’m doing the
cord. All the aforementioned players
end and the classic finisher Dhoni MOST DUCKS IN IPL HISTORY surpassed by Rohit were dismissed same thing for a while so I can con-
(28* off 13) finished the match with Rohit Sharma on Thursday for a duck 13 times in the IPL. tribute well in both batting and bowl-
a boundary of the last ball. bagged an unwanted record after get- The Indian captain has failed to ing for my team,” added the left-arm
Chennai Super Kings on Thurs- spinner, who grabbed two wickets
day registered the greatest number ting dismissed for a duck in an Indian score a single fifty in IPL 2022 and and played a key role in bundling out
Premier League 2022 match.
has been out of form in this season of
of last-ball wins in a run a chase in Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit the cash-rich league. He had scores Punjab for the lowest total of IPL
the history of Indian Premier League now has the most ducks in the histo- of 41, 10, 3, 26, 28 and 6 before this 2022.
(IPL). ry of the IPL. The unwelcome record duck. Speaking about how he plotted
Chennai achieved this feat Liam Livingstone’s dismissal, Axar
during the clash against Mumbai was registered by Rohit in the MI’s AXAR REVEALS HOW Patel said, “I was planning how to get
IPL 2022 match against Chennai Su-
Indians, where the legendary Indi- per Kings. In the very first over of the PONTING’S SPEECH CHARGED Livingstone out as he put pressure
an wicketkeeper-batter MS Dhoni match, Rohit handed an easy catch to on the bowler. After playing two or
scored 17 runs off the last over and Mitchell Santner at mid-on and went UP DC TEAM three balls he wants to play big shots
brought his side to another thrilling back to the pavilion on a second-ball After Delhi Capital’s camp got and that’s what he did, luckily, he got
victory of IPL 2022. With this win, duck off Mukesh Choudhary. hit by COVID-19 cases, Axar Patel out. And as the wicket was sticky, I
Chennai have recorded a total of Rohit has been dismissed for a revealed how Ricky Ponting’s mes-
eight last-ball wins in a run a chase, sage had charged up the entire squad Continued at next page... >>
duck in the IPL 14 times and he has

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