2022.10.13 23:07

IPL 2022 CSK Vs KKR Highlights: KKR defeat CSK by 6 wickets

IPL 2022 CSK Vs KKR Highlights:Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in the IPL opener on Saturday.

Invited to bat, CSK rode on Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s unbeaten fifty and contributions from skipper Ravindra Jadeja (26 not out) and Robin Uthappa (28) to manage a modest 131 for five. Dhoni, playing for the first time after 12 seasons without wearing the captain’s armband, slammed seven fours and a six in his 38-ball innings.

In reply, KKR overhauled the target, scoring 133 for four in 18.3 overs. For KKR, Umesh Yadav snapped two wickets, while Varun Chakravarthy (1/23) and Andre Russell (1/38) also kept things in check as CSK found the going tough at the Wankhede stadium. Dwayne Bravo was the most successful bowler for CSK, snapping 3 for 20 in his quota of four overs. Mitchell Santner (1/31) took one.

Brief Scores:

Chennai Super Kings: 131 for 5 in 20 overs (MS Dhoni 50 not out; Umesh Yadav 2/20).

Kolkata Knight Riders: 133 for 4 in 18.3 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 44; Dwayne Bravo 3/20).

Match EndedIndian Premier League, 2022 - Match 1

Chennai Super Kings

131/5 (20.0)vs

Kolkata Knight Riders

133/4 (18.3)Match Ended ( Day - Match 1 ) Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 6 wicketsView ScorecardLive Blog

IPL 2022 CSK Vs KKR Highlights: Chennai Super Kings battled Kolkata Knight Riders in the first match of the season at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

23:31 (IST)26 Mar 2022Dwayne Bravo becomes highest wicket taker

With 170 wickets, the dancing, singing, expressive allrounder Dwayne Bravo, who has played for at least 20 T20 franchises around the world, has become the highest wicket taker in IPL history. He has the zany persona for his art to be commercialised. Yet, without IPL, he might not have really blossomed.

Over the last few years, Bravo has often asked Lakshmi Narayanan, the performance analyst of CSK, one particular question: Why does Dhoni trust me so much in pressure situations in the game? Lakky, as Lakshmi is called in the team, tells him that he is loved and respected by Dhoni for his attitude and skills. Sachin Tendulkar gave him the confidence that his skill is respected far away from his own small island in the Caribbean when he called him to play for Mumbai Indians and Dhoni bottled the spirit of Bravo and sprayed it around even as he slowly slipped away from West Indian cricket.

The moment that turned his career came in 2006, two years before the first IPL, when his idol Brian Lara threw him the ball to bowl the last over with the job to prevent Yuvraj Singh from getting 10 runs. He bled two fours before slipping in a wicked little dipping slower one that completely befuddled Yuvraj. He ran away in delirium, arms spread like wings – the ball and the celebration has seen encores ever since.

That ball is well worth a deep dive as it captures everything about his art. It’s one thing for Lasith Malinga to bowl it; not that it’s easier but with that side-arm slinging action, it’s understandable. For Bravo to under-cut the ball with his more conventional action, he has to contort his wrists to get the fingers to slice the ball and then extend the arm out to ensure the ball floats really full. Without either, it’s not as effective. Malinga’s side-arm release allows him to slice and release the ball like a frisbee in a naturally flowing unimpeded action. Neither does he have Malinga’s pace. Yet, his version is wonderfully wicked.

Both Malinga and Bravo had no role models really. As in, T20 bowling was unchartered territory. The best pacers of their era didn’t necessarily have the best T20 style to emulate. Yorkers and slower ones as deliveries existed before, of course but they had to mould them into T20 shape on their own. There was no pre-existing model that they could dip into. They had to decide how many to bowl, where and when to bowl. More than most, Bravo has cracked the T20 bowling code.

One of the greatest gripes that Michael Holding has is the perception that people carry about the great West Indies bowlers of his generation. “Even our bowling. It was as if they thought, all we needed to do was run up and bowl fast or short. That’s what irks me the most. I tell them to check the scorebook: how many were lbw, bowled, caught in slips. It’s as if they don’t want to credit our thinking.” Even his jazzy run-up was attributed, by some, almost subconsciously to his race. It makes Holding bristle.

In a sweet irony, it has been left to a medium pacer from the Caribbean to make younger generation respect and acknowledge the brain and the thought that goes into bowling. That will be Bravo’s legacy.

23:24 (IST)26 Mar 2022🕺🏽 Bop it like Bravo

Dwayne Bravo has now gone past Lasith Malinga to create an IPL record for the highest wickets (170). As a bowler, he has one of the great dipping slower ones, a canny outside-off slider, excellent off-pace cutters but it’s his wicket-celebrations that keep populating the gifs every IPL season. He has introduced yet another new celebration — Bravo One special. For each of his three wickets, he would put up his index finger, like an umpire’s dismissal signal, and sway it one way to the other. He couldn’t prevent KKR from cantering to a win, but he did everything possible to try to defend the low total of 131 that CSK put up. At the end of the game, he was involved in a nice long, seemingly happy chat with KKR’s Andre Russell and Sunil Narine.

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23:01 (IST)26 Mar 2022KKR win by 6 wickets

Last two overs but probably this match will be over in the penultimate over. CSK has dragged this match very deep and that`s praiseworthy. They just need 3 runs now. And Shreyas has finished this off. KKR win by 6 wickets!!

That`s that from Match 1 of #TATAIPL.@KKRiders win by 6 wickets 👏👏Scorecard - https://t.co/b4FjhJcJtX#CSKvKKR#TATAIPLpic.twitter.com/3yTEtffmYy

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 26, 202222:56 (IST)26 Mar 2022Bravo gets 3

KKR are almost home now as chants of KKR KKR ring around the Wankhede. But that`s a wicket. Against the run of play. Billings innings comes to an end as Bravo gets his 3rd wicket. KKR 123/4 after 17.3 overs. And now Bravo has the most wickets in the history of IPL.

22:53 (IST)26 Mar 2022SIXXXX

That`s a massive six by Billings. Absolutely thrashed over wide long-on. Billings keeping busy. Kolkata Knight Riders closing in on a much-needed victory. KKR 122/3 after 17 overs.

22:48 (IST)26 Mar 2022FOUR!!!

That`s a boundary now. He couldn`t get the sweep right against the spinners, but he does sweep Bravo. Great, intelligent batting by Billings. 9 off this over. KKR 113/3 after 16 overs.

22:44 (IST)26 Mar 2022100 up for KKR

That`s 100 up for KKR off that delightful reverse sweep by Billings. KKR ticking along nicely. 6 runs off this over. KKR are 104/3 after 15 overs.

22:39 (IST)26 Mar 2022CSK waste review

Billings to face Santner now. Kolkata Knight Riders are comfortable, without any need to hurry. There are plenty of overs still left. There`s a review for LBW and that`s a wasted review. KKR 98/3 after 14 overs.