CSK wins the fourth title under Dhoni’s leadership
In the final match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs to capture the title for the fourth time. Let us tell you that before this, CSK has won three titles in 2010, 2011 and 2018.
In this match played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the KKR team, chasing the target of 193 runs kept by Chennai, could only make 165 runs for 9 wickets.
Electing to bat after losing the toss, CSK scored 192 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of 3 wickets. Faf du Plessis played a brilliant innings of 86 runs for CSK. Chasing this target, KKR had a good start. Both the openers put on 91 runs for the first wicket, but after that the whole team collapsed like a pack of cards and the team could score only 165 runs in 20 overs. Gill and Venkatesh Iyer scored half-centuries for KKR.
Chennai Super Kings Squad: MS Dhoni (Captain & Wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, Jason Behrendorff, Krishnappa Gautam, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravi Srinivasan, Sai Kishore, Hari Nishant, N Jagadeesan, KM Asif, Harishankar Reddy, Dominic Drakes, Bhagat Verma.
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Harbhajan Singh , Tim Southee, Ben Cutting, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sheldon Jackson, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert, Pranam Krishna, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Vaibhav Arora.
