CSK vs MI, Rohit Sharma: The Mumbai Indians team suffered their 5th defeat on Saturday in the 16th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL-2023). In the 49th match of the season, Chennai Super Kings, captained by veteran MS Dhoni, defeated him by 6 wickets. This was Chennai’s sixth win and it also entered the top-2 in the points-table. Mumbai captain Rohit remembered a player after the defeat.

Chennai Bowlers Rocked

Dhoni, the captain of the Chennai Super Kings team playing at his home ground (Chepauk), won the toss and decided to bowl first. The Chennai bowlers performed brilliantly and the Mumbai team was able to score only 139 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the 20 overs set before them. After this, Chennai achieved the target by losing 4 wickets in 17.4 overs. With this victory, the Chennai team has reached number two in the points table. The team has got 13 points. At the same time, Mumbai is at number six with 10 points.

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Rohit of MI Said this After the Defeat

MI captain Rohit Sharma said after the defeat, ‘I feel everywhere. (What went wrong), we didn’t score enough runs. Due to this the bowlers did not have enough runs to save. It was an off-day for us as a batting unit. He got down to bat at number-3 in the match. On this Rohit said, ‘We did what we felt comfortable and right.’

Remembered this Match Winner

Rohit further said, ‘After the unfortunate exit of Tilak Verma, an Indian batsman was needed to bat in the middle overs against spin, but we lost our 3 wickets for just 16 runs. He (Piyush Chawla) is bowling really well. Other bowlers need to rally around him, that’s what the team needs. Everyone has to come forward and contribute. There is no such (home ground) advantage this season, everyone has won and lost at home. We need to fix all the three departments, we will play the next two matches at home (Mumbai). Let’s see what happens next.

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Pathirana Became the Player of the Match

Sri Lankan bowler Mathisha Pathirana bowled brilliantly for Chennai in this match. He took 3 wickets for just 15 runs in 4 overs. For this, he was chosen as the player of the match. Pacer Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande got 2-2 wickets.

This Happened After 9 Years

It happened with MI after 9 years that they had to face defeat in both the matches of the league against Chennai Super Kings. Earlier this was seen in the 2014 season when Mumbai was defeated by Chennai in both the matches of the league stage. In the current season, Mumbai had to face defeat by 7 wickets in the match played at Wankhede Stadium.