On Tuesday, the under the captaincy of MS Dhoni, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), registered a 20-runs win over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 20 runs in Dubai. But the game came way much close that the winning margin is suggesting. Despite losing wickets, SRH kept coming at the opposition in the chase and it added pressure on CSK. Dhoni rather also lost his cool at his bowlers and was seen questioning his fielders on one of the occasions.
At one stage, with Kane Williamson getting dismissed in the 18th over, the game was looking way beyond control for the Sunrisers, but Rashid Khan had different plans as he smacked 14 more runs in the same over to bring the equation down to 28 runs off last two overs. Shardul Thakur came back into the attack and there was pressure on both the teams, especially the bowler with the batsman having nothing to lose.
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Meanwhile, the penultimate over of the match witnessed an interesting incident as well. The second ball of the over, Thakur bowled a wide first and then again bowled a wide yorker. The ball was rather well outside the tramline which guides the umpires to make their decision. Paul Reiffel, the straight umpire, was looking to stretch his arms in order to call the delivery a wide.
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However, Thakur and MS Dhoni were agitated even before the wide was given and Paul clearly came under pressure and withdrew himself. David Warner immediately didn’t seem unhappy to see what transpired in the middle and even had his hands stretched questioning the way the decision was made. Though things were quite good in the end, the incident definitely created a bit of a controversy with the umpire withdrawing himself from calling it a wide.
Here’s the video:
https://twitter.com/tarun_reddy409/status/1316076859365502976?s=20
The second half of the ongoing season of the tournament with both the teams playing their 8th match of the tournament. CSK was at the seventh position having won just a couple of games in their first seven outings and desperately needed this victory. They now have six points in their kitty and in a better position than before. However, they will have to keep winning to have any chance of making it to the playoffs.
