Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI in Chennai

Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI in Chennai

Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12
CSK vs MI in Chennai

 The Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI was played between two most successful teams of IPL on 7th May 2019 in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Both the teams have won the title 3 times. Chennai won the toss and elected to bat first in the match.

CSK'S Inning in Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI in Chennai

The inning was started by Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson who couldn't give a good start to the team as CSK lost their first wicket du Plessis in the 3rd overs bowled by Rahul Chahar who scored 6 runs of 11 balls. Raina in the very next over gave his wicket to Jayant Yadav and Murali Vijay tried to score runs against the quality spinners but in the last ball of the powerplay Krunal Pandya departed Shane Watson on 10 runs (2 fours) of 13 balls who tried to settle down as a result of CSK was able to score 32-3 in the powerplay. After the powerplay, the bowlers didn't allow any batsman to score easy runs which forced the batsman to go huge which helped them to pick the wicket of Vijay in the 13th over bowled by Rahul Chahar who departed Murali Vijay on 26 runs (3 fours) of 26 balls. Once again Dhoni came into the crease and built a partnership of 67 runs in 7.5 balls with Rayudu who scored 42 runs of 37 balls and helped the team to set a competitive total of 132-4 in 20 overs with his 37 runs (3 sixes) of 29 balls.

Rahul Chahar bowled brilliantly and picked 32important wickets conceding only 14 runs in his 4 overs, Jayant Yadav and Krunal Pandya got 1 wicket each.

MI'S Inning in Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI in Chennai

 The start for MI was not that good as they lost the wickets of the openers early in the inning and scored 44-2 runs in the powerplay and then Suryakumar Yadav built a partnership with Ishan Kishan and took the match away from CSK by scoring 80 runs in 10.3 overs where Ishan Kishan scored 28 runs (1 four, 1 six) of 31 balls. Imran Tahir interrupted by departing Ishan and Krunal Pandya on a duck but Suryakumar Yadav helped the team to win the match quite comfortably with his 71 runs (10 fours, 3 sixes) of 52 balls and MI scored 132-4 in 18.3 overs and qualifies for the final. CSK tried well where Tahir picked 2 wickets conceding 33 runs in his 4 overs, Deepak Chahar and Harbhajan Singh got 1 wicket each.

Suryakumar Yadav was the Player of the match for his magnificent inning in Qualifier 1 of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs MI in Chennai.