Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings are facing one another in the 23rd match of the Indian Premier League 2021 in Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium. David Warner opted to bat first after winning the toss in their quest to get back on winning ways.
Jonny Bairstow and Warner are one of the deadliest opening pair in the Indian Premier League’s history. SRH was hoping from their openers to give them a dashing start against CSK. Bairstow has been in superb form this season and has hit the most number of sixes so far in the tournament.
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But it didn’t seem like his day as he almost registered a golden duck in the first over of the match. Deepak Chahar came to open the bowling and induced an edge down the leg-side. It was a poor delivery as it was going down the leg-side but Bairstow tried to pound upon the run-scoring opportunity but ended up edging it.
However, Chahar’s joy was short-lived as MS Dhoni dropped one of the easiest catches behind the stumps to give Bairstow an early reprieve. Chahar was so sure for this wicket that the drop catch took him by surprise. He stood his ground and looked dejected. He couldn’t believe his luck as a catch slipper out of Dhoni’s hands.
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Twitter was quick to notice this reaction of Chahar and expressed their views on the micro-blogging site. Here are some of those tweets;
— Aditya Das (@lodulalit001) April 28, 2021
Chahar looking angrily at Dhoni after taking that catch ? 😂😂😂#IPL2021
— RO45 FAN – #HHVM ( Sankranthi 2022 ) (@forpspk2) April 28, 2021
What?! Ms Dhoni dropped Johnny Bairstow's catch on very first Ball of Deepak Chahar. #IPL2021
— CricketMAN2 (@man4_cricket) April 28, 2021
It's amazing how there is no mention or replay of dhoni's drop catch.
He's modiji of cricket now
— krishen (@Krizardd) April 28, 2021
Deepak chahar finally took catch of Jonny baistow
Now dhoni #CSKvsSRH pic.twitter.com/szb7ozoyj4— last bencher // csk (@imlastbencher) April 28, 2021
Dhoni drops a catch for the first time in a very LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.
Dhoni haters: https://t.co/n0e6H9er8A
— Romannnn 🐐 (@AbramovichTalks) April 28, 2021
Raina to Dhoni after the dropped catch ( When he collected the ball at 1st slip):
Ye Main Kar leta hun, Aap Dream11 par team banalo.
— Robin (@robin_rounder) April 28, 2021
Bairstow didn’t make CSK pay the prize of this dropped chance as he perished in the fourth over when he tried to hoick Sam Curran. He got out after scoring seven runs.
Warner and Manish Pandey scored their respective fifties but were unable to score those runs quickly. It was Kane Williamson and Kedar Jadhav’s late blows that took their score to 171/3 in 20 overs.
