Chennai Super Kings ripped apart Mumbai Indians' bowling as they kept smashing every bowler into submission and reached a total of 218/4.
Ambati Rayudu made his former team Mumbai Indians pay heavily on Saturday night in the capital as the Chennai Super Kings batsman played an explosive innings of 72 runs off 27 balls to help his side post their highest score against the defending champions in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Chennai Super Kings started slow after losing Ruturaj Gaikwad in the very first over itself, but once both du Plessis and Moeen were set, they took on the Mumbai Indians' bowling and kept smashing and soon they were 100-up in the 11th over.
However, Jasprit Bumrah accounted for Moeen Ali soon after he brought up his fifty. With the new batsman in and Mumbai needing to bowl a couple of overs of the fifth bowler, Kieron Pollard came into the attack and it seemed like it was his day.
The fourth ball of the over, a slower ball, Du Plessis tried to scoop it but no avail as he hit straight into the hands of the short fine-leg fielder. If getting the set batsman wasn't enough, Pollard removed Suresh Raina on the very next ball of the over to see the back of the stalwart of Chennai Super Kings' outfit and CSK were suddenly 116/4 from 112/1 within eight balls.
After Faf du Plessis and Moeen Ali stitched a 108-run partnership, CSK lost three wickets for just four runs, one would have thought, they will slow down and will look to play a few overs with strike rotation and then go big with only skipper MS Dhoni and Sam Curran to come.
But to fans' surprise and to Mumbai Indians' shock, there was Ambati Rayudu-named storm incoming. Rayudu was in some god mode on Saturday, he just flew and didn't look back. Ravindra Jadeja wasn't getting his timing right and he didn't need to as Rayudu was on song from ball one.
Rayudu hit his first six off Rahul Chahar in the 15th over of the innings as he launched the ball somewhere near Delhi Gate. He just didn't stop after that and he didn't leave any bowler. He wanted to have a pice of every bowler, every single, so who Bumrah, who Boult.
After Chahar, he hit two sixes off Dhawal Kulkarni and then he hit a six and a four of Bumrah and then two more sixes off Trent Boult and he was absolutely unstoppable. He brought up his fifty off just 20 balls and remained unbeaten on 72 ff just 27 balls with seven sixes and four fours and had taken CSK to a total over and beyond 218.
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