IPL: Chennai extended the wait for Rajasthan, defeated RR in a low scoring match, Gaikwad played the captaincy innings.

New Delhi, The 61st match of IPL 2024 was played today between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Chepauk. In this match, Chennai Super Kings registered a spectacular victory by 5 wickets. In this match, Rajasthan won the chance and decided to bat first, which proved costly for them. Rajasthan team, which came to bat first, could only score runs in 20 overs. Chennai chased the target and won in just 18.2 overs.

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler, who came to open for Rajasthan, could not bat well. While Jaiswal was out after scoring 24 runs in 21 balls, Butler scored 21 runs. Sanju Samson, who came third, scored 15 runs. Riyan Parag batted brilliantly for the team and played an inning of 47 runs. Dhruv Jurel scored 28 runs in 18 balls. In this way Rajasthan scored a total of 141 runs in 20 overs. Simarjeet Singh bowled brilliantly for CSK and took a total of 3 wickets.

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Simarjeet took the wickets of Jaiswal, Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson. Apart from this, Tushar Deshpande also took 2 wickets. He dismissed Dhruv Jurel and Shubham Dubey. Now it was Chennai Super Kings’ turn to chase. Rachin Ravindra, who came to open for CSK, was looking in great form. But he was out after scoring only 27 runs in 18 balls. Rituraj Gaikwad, playing the captaincy innings, played an innings of 42 runs. He maintained the lead from one side. Daryl Mitchell, who came at number three, was LBW by Chahal. He was out after scoring 22 runs in 13 balls. Jadeja could not do anything special. Sameer Rizvi scored 15 runs.

With this victory, Chennai Super Kings have achieved 14 points in the tournament. Chennai has now come to third position with 14 points. At the same time, Rajasthan Royals did not make much difference even after the defeat. They are still in second place with 16 points. Chennai’s next match is against RCB, if they win this match then their chances of qualifying will almost increase. If they lose then they will have to depend on the results of other teams.

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