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IPL 2024 CSK Vs KKR Rituraj: Rituraj Gaikwad has achieved a special achievement by scoring consecutive half centuries against Kolkata Knight Riders. He has become the first captain of Chennai Super Kings in the last five years, who has scored a half-century in the IPL. Before this, Mahendra Singh Dhoni had done this feat for the last time as captain for CSK. Gaikwad, who came to open for Chennai Super Kings, completed his half-century in 45 balls. After getting the captaincy of Chennai this year, Rituraj was in search of runs. He was struggling to score runs continuously. But finally his drought of runs ended on CSK's home ground.
The fans' wait is over
Although KKR did not set a very challenging score for Chennai. But still the fans were waiting to see whether Rituraj Gaikwad would be able to give a good start to his team today. An even bigger wait was whether Rituraj would be able to capitalize on the opportunity to score runs again. Rituraj grabbed this opportunity with both hands and completed his half-century. The CSK captain not only scored a half-century but also ensured that his team won. He played an unbeaten inning of 67 runs on 58 balls and hit nine fours during this.
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This was the result of the match
Today here at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bowl first. Ravindra Jadeja and Tushar Deshpande took three wickets each for Chennai Super Kings. Mustafizur Rahman got two wickets. Mahish Teekshana dismissed one batsman. After restricting KKR to 137 runs for nine wickets, CSK won by scoring 140 runs for two wickets in 17.4 overs. Kolkata scored these runs with the help of captain Shreyas Iyer and innings of 34 runs, Sunil Narayan 27 runs and Angkrish Raghuvanshi 24 runs.