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Chennai Super Kings’ skipper Ravindra Jadeja plays a shot (ANI Photo) Mumbai Indians’ Tilak Varma plays a shot (ANI Photo)

dream coming true. Since, childhood “The big-margin win helps, 200 plus for the fourth time in the batter Ishan Kishan has said that the
I am watching Rohit sir, Sachin sir would have been better if it had come season, but it was not as easy accord- side would ‘make it right’ in the next
and MI has always managed to come earlier. But this was a perfect game. ing to the skipper. Dhoni also praised season of the Indian Premier League.
back and win the match in any cir- The batters did well,” said MS Dhoni openers Devon Conway and Ruturaj “Ups and downs are very much a part
cumstances so that is the one reason after victory. After losing the toss and Gaikwad who scored 110 runs for the of this game. Yes, we will lose match-
why I like MI so much.” being put in to bat things did not go opening wicket. es, there will be matches where we
Speaking about his cricketing as per plan for the defending cham- “The ball stops and comes and would not perform, but what mat-
journey, Varma said, “I started my pions but they still managed to score behaves only after 13-14 overs. The ters is how we keep the process right
cricket journey when I was just 11 208/6 in 20 overs and bowl out the op- way the openers batted, runs on the throughout the season. We want to
years old. My coach, Salam Bayash position for 117 in 17.4 overs. board helped. And we had to make win matches, we are giving our best,
is the main person in my life who “I wanted to win the toss and sure the opposition’s big hitters did but unfortunately, we lost many close
encouraged me to play cricket and field first but this was a game where not get going,” explained Dhoni. matches this season. This happens,
taught me how to play in every situ- you’d want to lose the toss,” said Ishan Kishan thinks his side will and I think we will make it right next
ation. He plays a very important role Dhoni. ‘make it right’ next season season,” said Kishan during a pre-
in my life. If it was not him, I wouldn’t The four-time champions scored Mumbai Indians wicketkeeper match conference before their game
have been playing cricket today so all against Chennai Super Kings. Mum-
the credit goes to him.” bai Indians have had a terrible sea-
He further spoke about how son this time around. The five-time
happy he was being associated with champions has looked nowhere as
Mumbai Indians, Varma said: “I am dominating as their other successful
very lucky to play for Mumbai In- seasons, winning only two games out
dians because they had legendary of eleven and sitting at the bottom of
cricketers in the team like Mahela the points tally.
sir, Sachin sir. I am very lucky to be The wicketkeeper-batter admit-
picked by the MI team as I got to ted that he lost focus while trying to
learn a lot and also got a chance to finish the game well for his side in-
implement them in the matches.” stead of giving them a good start.
“What worked well for me was,
MS DHONI WELCOMES WIN initially when I started the tourna-
AGAINST DC ment, I was not over-thinking, I was
While Skipper Mahendra Singh just going and batting, like I used to
Dhoni was happy with Chennai Su- do,” Kishan said ahead of Mumbai’s
per Kings’ (CSK) comprehensive 91- next match, against Chennai Super
run win against Delhi Capitals (DC) Kings at the Wankhede. “My focus
here at the Dr DY Patil Stadium on was on giving a good start to the team.
Sunday, he felt that it would have But I think later on, somewhere I was
been better if had it come earlier in MS Dhoni and Rishabh Pant share a candid moment during the toss (ANI Photo/ Twitter) trying to finish the game... maybe I lost
the tournament. my focus in the first six overs,” he said.

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