IPL 2021 Final: 'Did he drop trophy'? Venkatesh Iyer makes CSK pay after MS Dhoni drops him on zero

One of the main reasons for the Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) resurgence in the second half has been Venkatesh Iyer, the all-rounder who has been smashing the bowling attacks apart at the top of the order and gave his side crucial breakthroughs with the ball as well, in a couple of games.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) had an opportunity to negate that effect in the second over itself when Josh Hazlewood's short delivery on stumps was too close to cut for Venkatesh Iyer and he could get only as far as MS Dhoni's gloves but the skipper in trying to taking it with reverse cup spilled it and gave him a life.

On the next ball, just to rub on the wounds Iyer smashed a six and just played the way he has throughout the second half. Those cover drives, those flicks were all on show. CSK had another opportunity to dismiss Iyer where Shardul Thakur got Iyer to pull and he got a top edge, Dhoni jumped high but could only get his fingertips to it.

Iyer then hit a couple of sixes off Ravindra Jadeja and brought up his fourth half-century of the season and made CSK pay after Dhoni dropped him.

Iyer got out just after but he did his job scoring 50 runs off just 32 balls.

I’ve hardly ever see @msdhoni drop a simple catch. Will CSK pay the price for this as KKR did after Karthik gave Faf du Plessis a reprieve I wonder

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 15, 2021

PS: I swiped the ball over MS and he got his fingertips to it

— Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee) October 15, 2021

That’s it,
no more proof required,
say your goodbyes,
the world is ending tonight.
MSD dropped a catch #IPLFinal

— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) October 15, 2021

Pics of dhoni leaving IPL trophy????#KKR #csk #cskvskkr2021 #IPL2021Final pic.twitter.com/vRDb0Ntf4q

— vishæl (@Vishhaaaaaaal) October 15, 2021