On the 41st match of the ongoing Dream11 IPL, MI had elected to bowl after Kieron Pollard won the toss and elected to field first. The management had to make a forced change as Saurabh Tiwary replaced injured Rohit Sharma in the middle. Meanwhile, CSK made three changes to their playing XI as N Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Imran Tahir replaced Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson and Piyush Chawla.
MI made a thundering start to the innings as Trent Boult and Jasprit Bumrah picked four wickets in the first three overs. Boult set the ball rolling for MI and got good amount of movement as he trapped Gaikwad before the wickets. Bumrah then dismissed Ambati Rayudu and N Jagadeesan on successive deliveries in the second over. Boult picked his second wicket after Faf du Plessis’s willow got kissed by the ball and straight into the hands of De Kock as CSK were reduced to 4/3 after 2.5 overs. The change of ends did not change Boult’s fortunes as he scalped Ravindra Jadeja’s wicket as MI picked five wickets in the powerplay.CSK lost their sixth wicket on 30 as Rahul Chahar had MS Dhoni caught behind the wickets. Dhoni who was looking good, also fled. The leg-spinner, in his next over, scalped his second wicket as brother Deepak Chahar was stumped. Sam Curran and Shardul Thakur then added 28 runs together to push CSK past 70. However, Nathan Coulter-Nile broke the partnership after Thakur was caught as he went for a big hit. Curran was the one man army in the battle. He was accompanied by Imran Tahir for company and both of them dragged CSK past hundred. In the last over of the innings, Curran hit three fours and brought up a well-deserved half-century before getting out on the final ball as Boult disturbed the furniture to pick his fourth wicket of the match. CSK eventually ended up on 114/9 on the board.
Chasing 115, MI openers gave a flying start as Ishan Kishan and Quinton de Kock scored 52 in the powerplay. The pair hit four fours in the first two overs before Ishan Kishan, took on Josh Hazlewood and Deepak Chahar, hitting four fours and a six to take MI close to fifty. CSK brought in Shardul Thakur into the attack in the seventh over and de Kock straight away went after him, hitting boundaries and a six. Jadeja came in and was smashed hard by Ishan Kishan as he dispatched two consecutive sixes out of the park, brought up his second fifty of the season and once again clubbed another. MI moved to 98 after the end of 10 overs.The Kishan-de Kock pair completed the 100-run partnership in the next over and a couple of overs later, went on to seal MI’s convincing 10-wicket win. While Kishan remained unbeaten on 68 from 37 balls, de Kock scored 46 not out