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LSG vs CSK IPL Match: Chennai Super Kings i.e. CSK made a new move in their seventh league match of IPL 2024 against Lucknow Super Giants on Friday. He promoted all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to number four as the team lost two wickets early. Ravindra Jadeja also became the trouble-shooter for CSK. Jadeja did the job he was sent to do and put the team in a good position.
CSK's 2 wickets had fallen for 33 runs. Team management promoted Ravindra Jadeja. He was given the responsibility to hold the wicket on a bowling friendly wicket and maintain the run rate from one end. Ravindra Jadeja accomplished this task well and scored a half-century in 34 balls with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. After his half-century, he celebrated with fencing in his own style, which he likes.
He returned unbeaten after scoring 57 runs in 40 balls, as MS Dhoni did the rest from the other end. There was a partnership of 35 runs between Dhoni and Jadeja, out of which MS Dhoni alone scored 28 runs. Dhoni had faced only 9 balls. If this innings of Dhoni had not come then the team would have scored around 160, which is now 176 and it would not be easy to achieve this on the increasingly slow pitch of Lucknow.
SIX of 101 meters…strike rate of 311…MS Dhoni defeated Lucknow, played explosive innings
Ravindra Jadeja has batted at number four or higher in T20 cricket very rarely in his career. However, he completed only his third fifty in the IPL, because he often comes to bat at number 6 to 8 and gets few chances to come up and score runs. They get to play some balls in the last overs and they have to give their best and finish the match.