Mumbai Indians register win against Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets

 The crucial partnership between Tilak Varma and Hrithik Shokeen and a quick unbeaten 16 by Tim David helped Mumbai Indians register a third win against Chennai Super Kings here at Wankhede Stadium on Thursday.

With this win, MI is currently at the bottom of the points table with six-point. CSK is at ninth position with 8 points. Chasing just a mere 98 runs target, Mumbai Indians got off a poor start, losing the opener Ishan Kishan on the fifth ball of the innings after Mukesh Choudhary’s delivery found the edge of his bat and landed in the hands of wicketkeeper MS Dhoni.

The wicket of the opener brought Daniel Sams to the crease to join hands with skipper Rohit Sharma. But the duo could not stand longer as Simarjeet Singh dismissed skipper Rohit Sharma for 18 runs leaving MI’s total at 30/2 in 3.3 overs.

Tilak Varma then joined Sams on the field to keep Mumbai’s scoreboard moving. Things started to pick up for CSK after Mukesh Choudhary’s picked his second wicket of the match as he dismissed Daniel Sams for only one run. 

This wicket rattled Mumbai’s batting order leaving the team’s total at 33/3 in 4.3 overs. In the same over Choudhary struck again and sent the debutant Tristan Stubbs back to the pavilion without scoring a run.

At that point, Mumbai needed a steady partnership to achieve the target in the remaining balls. The duo of Hrithik Shokeen and Tilak Varma batted aggressively against CSK and smashed them all around the ground.

The duo took their team’s total beyond the 50-runs mark in the 8.2 overs. Both the batter continued to pile up runs further.

Man in yellow took a sigh of relief as Moeen Ali dismissed Hrithik Shokeen on 18 runs. 

Daineil Sams was the pick.