Lucknow won the toss and chose to bowl first, which proved to be an effective and smart decision as the match progressed. Chennai has already lost three batsmen, and their run rate quite fair if you ask me. Since today's match is being hosted by Chennai, we are expected to take advantage of their home ground and improve their performance, which is what their fans are hoping for. So far, CSK's batting has been quite slow, but hopefully, they will increase their run rate. I'm hoping for a total above 200 at least.
Daryl Mitchell was the biggest loss for Chennai Super Kings and he was gone in loss just because of Yash Thakur who is the fast bowler of the Indian team and also played Indians under 19 Cricket Team but didn’t get a chance to play in an international match.
However, he did out to him in a very good way as you can see Yash Thakur gave the ball between out side stump and middle stump and after seeing this ball for sure in a the very batsmen tried to hit on straight and the same thing was done by Daryl Mitchell which cause of his wicket in a very bad way, he was out by Thakur.
By the way, it is only the captain of Chennai Super Kings Ruturaj Gaikwad who is single handedly taking the match away from the Lucknow Super Giants . He alone has made 85 quick runs out of the total of 135, the current CSK score
Despite losing the wicket of Ajinkia Rahane at the start, Chennai team is performing brilliantly today. After 18 overs, Chennai collected 175 runs. Chennai team will collect more than 20 in the last 2 overs. Raturaj Gaikwad and Shivam Dube are now at the crease.
Although Raturaj Gailwad and Shivam Duve batted well, I was very disappointed with Ravindra Jadeja's batting today. Jadeja collected only 17 runs from 19 balls. Jadeja's strike rate below 100. I didn't think that Jadeja would bat so stupidly in such an important match. LSG is not a weak team at all. It will definitely be challenging for Chennai to beat LSg.
I bet Chennai to win today's match. We have seen quite good batting from the batsmen. But I am not sure if Chennai's bowlers can do well. If Mujtafiz and Pathirana bowl well, it will not be difficult for Chennai to beat LSG.