Chennai was a very lucky team as after Gujarat set their target at 214 runs, Chennai scored just 171 runs to win the match on Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method and became champions of the IPL. However, due to the rain, the match authorities got into a lot of trouble in the final match and the spectators also became very boring. Finally this year's IPL match is over and CSK is the champion. Congratulations to them
Gujarat's 214 runs were the record number of runs in the history of IPL finals. Before this, no team could get so many runs in the final match. Unfortunately for Gujarat Titans, the match went to DLS mode due to rain yesterday. Chennai Super Kings won brilliantly under MS Dhoni's captaincy as they moved to DLS mode. I might have thought that with the runs that Gujarat Titans scored in today's match, Gujarat Titans can win. But I was completely wrong as Chennai Super Kings came out stronger under Dhoni's captaincy. They won by losing 5 wickets in just 15 overs by collecting the target of 171 runs in the DLS system.
Dhoni has been leading Chennai Super Kings for a long time. And it was under his leadership that CSK won the IPL title five times. There should be no question about his captaincy. If we consider the category of best captaincy, he should be at the top. Had the DLS method not been used in the second innings, the target for CSK would have been 215 runs. Because Gujarat Titans scored 214 runs in the first innings. Only 45 runs were conceded for 5 overs due to rain. In other words, the target for CSK is 171 runs in 15 overs.
In other words, CSK had to collect about 11.5 runs against Avar. This target was never going to be easy for CSK. But the batsmen of CSK batted brilliantly due to which they managed to win this match. And both teams had to wait till the last ball to confirm the result of this match.
Four runs were needed off the last ball, if a good delivery off the last ball, the result of this match would have gone in favor of Gujarat Titans.