In the IPL (IPL 2024) match played on 8 April, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 7 wickets. The biggest hero of the match was 'Player of the Match' Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja bowled tightly and took three wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs, while he also took 2 catches.
It was Jadeja who curbed Kolkata's high run rate. During this, Jadeja won the 'Player of the Match' award for the 15th time in IPL. Jadeja also equaled Mahendra Singh Dhoni's tally of 15 IPL Player of the Match awards. Now they can also leave Thala behind.
At the same time, Chennai's dominance on the Chepauk ground continued with the victory over Kolkata. CSK have won eight of the 11 IPL matches against KKR in Chepauk.
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Chennai has won 3 out of 5 matches and lost 2 so far this season. On the other hand, under the captaincy of Shreyas, Kolkata team has lost its first match this season. He won the first three matches.
Kolkata team had a very bad start in the match. KKR lost the wicket of Phil Salt on the very first ball of the match. After this the team calmed down a bit, but the middle order went haywire. Amidst the continuous falling of wickets, KKR team could score only 137 runs for 9 wickets.
Captain Shreyas Iyer scored 34, Sunil Narine scored 27 and Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 24 runs. Apart from these, no batsman could run. For Chennai team, spin all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja took 18 runs and fast bowler Tushar Deshpande took 3 wickets each giving 33 runs. While Mustafizur Rahman got 2 successes and Mahish Tikshina got 1 success.
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