The first match of IPL is being played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. KKR won the toss and elected to bowl first. The one who bowls first at Wankhede remains in the advantage and the same trend continues even today. Chennai scored 131 runs in 20 overs. KKR have had a smooth start. He has scored 44 runs in 7 overs.
Horror opening for Captain Jadeja. In the first match, Important lost the toss. The batting of the team was very slow. The team could not even score 100 runs till 18 overs. Eventually Mahendra Singh Dhoni took over the innings of CSK. Playing an innings of 50 runs took the team to a decent score.
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Horror opening of Jadeja's captaincy
1. His captaincy debut was nothing special for Ravindra Jadeja. Half of Sir Jadeja's team returned to the pavilion after scoring only 61 runs.
2. When Dhoni played his first IPL match in 2008, he won the toss. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja lost his first toss as captain.
3. Chennai's top order flopped badly in the very first match. Rituraj Gaikwad (0), Ambati Rayudu (15), Robin Uthappa (28), Devon Conway (3) were out for runs.
4. Till 13 overs, the score of Chennai Super Kings was 5 for 66. The team's run rate was 5.07.
5. Rayudu got life. Varun's ball hit the stumps but did not get out if the bails did not fall. However, when Jadeja came to bat, there was confusion in the run. Rayudu got out due to Jadeja's mistake.
Before the match, there was a conversation between Jadeja and Dhoni in the dressing room for a long time. Dhoni also got important tips from Jadeja in the first captaincy match.
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Dhoni also has faith in tricks, Bhajji revealed the secret
Before the start of the match between CSK and KKR, Harbhajan Singh, former off-spinner and commentator of Team India made an interesting disclosure about Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Bhajji said – Dhoni comes one step ahead of every ball during batting, this is his trick. Click here to know more such interesting things about IPL...
CSK and KKR some important points and figures
Iyer has been the captain of Delhi and has also led Delhi to the finals of 2020.
Chennai has played the first match of IPL 12 times so far and has won 6 and lost 6 times.
KKR have won 10 of their 14 opening matches. Kolkata won their first match for 7 consecutive times from 2013 to 2019.
Before this, the opening match of IPL was played only once in 2011 between Chennai and Kolkata. Chennai won this match by 2 runs.
The last time both the teams took the field against each other was on 15 October 2021. In this match, Chennai team won by 27 runs.
Playing XI of both the teams
CSK: Rituraj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja (c), Shivam Dubey, MS Dhoni (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Mitchell Santner, Adam Milne, Tushar Deshpande.
KKR: Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Sam Billings (wk), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Sheldon Jackson, Umesh Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Varun
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