Chennai Super Kings registered a stunning victory by six wickets against Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on the back of a stunning spell of Deepak Chahar who damaged in bulk. Chahar bowled four overs in trot and removed the top order of the opposition and picked four wickets.
Within the first seven overs of the game, he removed Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Deepak Hooda, and Nicholas Pooran to reduce Punjab to 26 for five. Although Shahrukh Khan showed his class and temperament with 47 runs off 36 balls and helped the team to reach 106 runs.
Later, CSK easily chased down the target within 15.4 overs and win their first game of IPL 2021. After the win, both Deepak Chahar and Shardul Thakur talked about their performance in a video uploaded on the official Twitter handle of IPL. While speaking, Deepak Chahar shared that he received a message on social media where a fan asked him to not participate in this game.
🔝 bowling performance
1⃣st win of the season
Interesting social media message 😉Wrecker-in-chief @deepak_chahar9 chats with @imShard after @ChennaiIPL's win at Wankhede. 👌👌 – By @NishadPaiVaidya #VIVOIPL #PBKSvCSK @Vivo_India
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 17, 2021
“I got a message on social media that bhai you are a very good bowler but don’t play the next game. So, the expectations are very high here and you have to perform in every match. So, it was for that man, if I wouldn’t play this match this performance would have never come”, said Deepak Chahar.
Shardul added, “Support the players as they do a lot of hard work. Keeper showering the love on us and we will continue to do our best.”
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The right-arm seamer also reckoned that it was an important game for them and a win was necessary too. The speedster has also revealed that the MA Chidambaram Stadium has become one of his favorite grounds now.
“It was an important spell for me. After losing the first game it was important to have the start like this. It was an important match for us to win. I’m happy that I contributed to the victory. After this performance, I will say that this is one of my favorite grounds. There was help from the wicket in the starting. It was not so in the last match on this ground. But today there was help from the wicket,” the 28-year-old concluded.
