On Monday night, hosts Chennai Super Kings (CSK) beat Delhi Daredevils (DD) by 13 runs at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium (Pune). While CSK put 211/4 on the board in 20 overs with the help of Shane Watson, MS Dhoni and Ambati Rayudu’s brilliant knock, DD ended their innings on 198/5 in 20 overs with the major help from Rishabh Pant’s excellent batting and Vijay Shankar’s explosive batting in the final moment. After the game, Dhoni was seemed to give some advice to the young DD wicketkeeper-batsman Pant and that image went viral on the social media.
On the last night, DD skipper Shreyas Iyer decided to field first after winning the toss. CSK had a great opening start as the openers Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis put a 102-run partnership. While Faf was dismissed for 33 runs, Watson scored 78 runs before getting caught out.
Later, Ambati Rayudu and MS Dhoni provided a superb thrashing 79-run partnership for the fourth wicket which helped the team to cross the 200-run mark. Dhoni played a firing knock as he was unbeaten on 51 runs off just 22 balls while in-form Rayudu scored 41 runs off 24 balls.
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In reply, Delhi was losing their top-order wickets in regular interval. In the second half of the innings, Rishabh Pant batted brilliantly. The 20-year-old left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman played a brilliant knock of 79 runs off 45 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes. However, his brilliant fighting knock went in vain even after a blasting last-minute knock by Vijay Shankar.
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After the end of the match, MS Dhoni was giving some advice to DD wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant. The young wicketkeeper was also paying a good attention to senior cricketer’s advice and that image soon went viral.
The feedback after the match. As always. Love you #Thala! #WhistlePodu #yellove #CSKvDD 🦁💛 pic.twitter.com/Gs0pQ1uqn3
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) April 30, 2018
Just a few days earlier, Dhoni had also the similar advisory talk with 19-year-old Mumbai Indians wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan, who was also paying his attention to that advice.
