HIGHLIGHTS : CSK vs KKR 61st IPL Match HIGHLIGHTS | Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wkts
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In the 61st match of IPL 2023 and another most exciting match, once again the two biggest teams in IPL history clashed with each other. This time Nitish Rana's Kolkata Knight Riders team was standing in front of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings. In a hair-raising match, Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first and invited the Kolkata team to bowl first, after which Chennai's two legendary opener batsmen fielded with the intention of raining runs. Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway landed on the shoulders of their big responsibility to give their team an explosive opening start in this great match but Kolkata's spin bowling broke Chennai's hopes in the opening over itself and Varun Chakraborty came to bowl the fourth over of the innings. Rituraj Gaikwad caught out by Vaibhav Arora. Rituraj Gaikwad got out after scoring 17 runs in 13 balls. After the early dismissal of Rituraj Gaikwad, now Ajinkya Rahane was sent to bat from the Chennai team and then Ajinkya Rahane, along with the set-up Devon Kaunve, tried his best to handle the Chennai innings, but then the innings ended. Varun Chakraborty, who came to bowl the 8th over, got the set-up Ajinkya Rahane caught out by Jason Roy. Ajinkya Rahane got out after scoring 11 runs in 16 balls. Now the Chennai team was in big trouble. Varun Chakraborty's spinning balls were not understood by the Chennai batsmen. But now after the fall of the wicket, Ambati Rayudu came to the field to support the set Devon Conve, but in the meantime Shardul Thakur got the set Devon Conve caught out by Rinku Singh and increased Chennai's problems even more. Devon Conway was dismissed after scoring 30 runs in 28 balls. Kolkata's excellent bowling had completely pushed a dangerous batting team like Chennai to the backfoot in this match. Due to the excellent bowling of Kolkata, Chennai's run rate had also weakened. But now after the fall of the wicket, Shivam Dubey came out to bat. But Ambati Rayudu, who was batting at the other end, was clean bowled by Sunil Narayan. Ambati Rayudu was dismissed after scoring 4 runs in 7 balls. So the same Sunil Narayan did not stop here and Sunil Narayan batted on the last ball of his over. Clean bowled even Moin Ali who came to do it. Moin Ali was dismissed after scoring 1 run in 2 balls. Sunil Narine had blown the Chennai batting to pieces in his one over. Chennai team lost 5 of their top order batsmen in just 11 overs. Had given. But now Ravindra Jadeja entered the field to support Shivam Dubey. And then from here Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dubey handled the staggered innings of Chennai and started building a strong partnership in the end overs. Shivam Dubey was batting brilliantly for the Chennai team in this match. Because of which somewhere now the Chennai team had made a comeback in this match. Shivam Dubey was easily hitting sixes and fours on Kolkata's bowling in this match. Due to which the bowling of Nitish Rana and Kolkata was looking under pressure, meanwhile both of them also completed their half-century partnership. This amazing batting of Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dubey had now completely removed the pressure from the Chennai team. Shivam Dubey played a brilliant inning of 48 runs in 34 balls for the Chennai team in this match and in the end, due to this wonderful batting, the Chennai team set a target of 144 runs in front of the Kolkata team. After that, chasing the target of 145 runs from Chennai, two legendary opener batsmen of Kolkata entered the field. On the shoulders of Jason Roy and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, it was a big responsibility to give their team an explosive opening start in this great match, but not Chennai's fast bowling, Kolkata's fast bowling broke it in the beginning and Deepak came to bowl the first over of the innings. Chahar got Rahmanullah Gurbaz out caught by Tushar Deshpande.
