MI vs CSK HIGHLIGHTS, IPL 2020: Chennai Super Kings Defeat Mumbai Indians By 5 Wickets In IPL 2020 Opener, Rayadu, Du Plessis Lead CSK To The Victory

MI vs CSK Live Score, IPL 2020 UAE: Dhoni's CSK beat Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets. Yellow Love hailed by the fans for the Whistle Podu team. The tournament opener of IPL 13 bagged by the Chennai Super Kings as Ambati Raydu, Faf Du Plessis emerges as stars.

Background

IPL 2020 Live Score: The 13th season of the Indian Premier League will start from today onwards in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the tournament opener taking place between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Last time both the teams faced each other in IPL 2019 finals and Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians defeated CSK by one run in a very exciting match. ALSO READ | IPL 2020 MI vs CSK: Top Five Players To Watch Out For Ahead Of The Tournament Opener

 

Mumbai Indians have won the IPL title (4) the most times. On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings have not managed to capture the title thrice, but the franchise has made it to the finals for 8 times.

 

Both the teams, so far, have played a total of 28 IPL matches against each other in the IPL. Mumbai Indians have won 17 of these, while Chennai Super Kings have won 11 times. When it comes to playing in the UAE, both CSK and MI had locked horns in 2014. In that match, Dhoni's team was successful in winning the game.

 

ALSO READ | IPL 2020: Complete Team Squads, Captains And Full Player Lists of All 8 Teams For Season 13 In UAE

 

Mumbai Indians have played five matches in the UAE and have suffered defeat in all of them. However, Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is not worried about his team's bad record here. The MI skipper believes that only two players from that team are currently playing in the squad, apart from them, the whole team is new.

 

On the other hand, CSK has won three of their five matches played in the UAE. Under Dhoni's leadership, CSK will try to maintain their winning record here.

 

Both the teams have been dented by the pulling out of star players ahead of the tournament. While CSK will be without Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh in IPL 13, Mumbai Indians wont have Lasith Malinga playing for them.

Here’s all you need to know about the Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings IPL 2020 match

The Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings IPL encounter will commence at 7:30 PM IST. The toss will take place 30 minutes (7:00 PM) before the scheduled start of play. The match will take place at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Full squads MI vs CSK IPL 2020 match-

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Anukul Roy, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Dhawal Kulkarni, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohsin Khan, Sherfane Rutherford, Digvijay Deshmukh, Prince Balwant Rai, Saurabh Tiwary, James Pattinson, Aditya Tare, Mitchell McClenaghan, Chris Lynn, Jayant Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (C/WK), Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Piyush Chawla, Mitchell Santner, Sam Curran, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, N Jagadeesan, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir, Murali Vijay, Karn Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Lungi Ngidi, Monu Kumar

23:45 PM (IST)  •  19 Sep 2020

Chennai Super Kings beat defending champions Mumbai Indians By 5 Wickets In IPL 2020 Opener. This is MS Dhoni's second win as CSK skipper. MS Dhoni has now captained Chennai Super King (CSK) in 161 matches, in which the franchise under his captaincy has won a total of 100 matches. Ambati Rayudu (71 runs off 48 balls) and Du Plessis (58 runs off 48 balls) were brilliant but Sam Curran's (18 runs off 6 balls) fiery cameo in the end was what made the BIG difference!

23:21 PM (IST)  •  19 Sep 2020

CSK Extract Sweet Revenge Of 2019 IPL Final! Beat MI By 5 Wickets In Season Opener

23:14 PM (IST)  •  19 Sep 2020

The script is perfect for a MSD finish!

23:14 PM (IST)  •  19 Sep 2020

16 runs. Two overs. Boult and Bumrah have one each in the bank! It is Bumrah who comes to bowl the second-last over but gets smashed for a six by Curran. However, in the very next ball he gets him caught out for 18 off 6 balls. CSK needs 10 runs from 10 balls to win.

CSK: 153/5 after 18.2 overs

23:10 PM (IST)  •  19 Sep 2020

A quicker one from Krunal and Jadeja is out lbw! No Dhoni at the moment for fans as Sam Curran, the left-hander, is the next man to the crease. And he DELIVERS! Curran hits a big six and in the very next ball hits a boundary! 10 runs of 2 balls! CSK needs 16 runs from 12 balls to win IPL 2020 Opener.

CSK: 147/4 after 18 overs