Sanju Samson’s magic was seen in Wankhede, he played a historic inning of 101 not out in 54 balls against Mumbai Indians. With the help of this century inning of Sanju, Chennai Super Kings scored more than 200 (207) runs while batting first. While chasing the target, Mumbai’s legendary batsmen proved to be a flop, only 2 batsmen (Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma) were able to cross double figures and the entire team collapsed for 104 runs.
This is Sanju Samson’s first year in Chennai Super Kings, and in the very first season with this franchise, he has done what no CSK batsman had done before. Sanju has become the first batsman from Chennai to score a century against Mumbai Indians. While both the teams have been playing since the first edition of IPL and both are the most successful teams.
Sanju Samson got POTM
Sanju Samson has also become the fifth batsman to score more than 1 century in a season of IPL. Earlier, he had played a century innings (115) against Delhi Capitals on 11 April, even then he remained unbeaten.
In Thursday’s match against Mumbai Indians, Chennai were also losing wickets at regular intervals, but at the other end, Sanju Samson was batting well and was not allowing the pace of runs to slow down. Sanju scored unbeaten 101 runs in 54 balls with the help of 6 sixes and 10 fours. For this brilliant innings he was chosen Player of the Match.
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MI lost by 103 runs
Mumbai Indians had a very bad start while chasing the target of 208 runs, Akil Hussain dismissed Danish Malevar, who was playing as an impact player, in the very first over. In the next over, Mukesh Chaudhary dismissed Quinton de Kock (0), in the third over, Akeel dismissed Naman Dheer for zero.
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After the fall of 3 wickets at 11, there was a partnership of 73 runs for the fourth wicket between Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav, but as soon as this pair broke, Mumbai Indians could add only 20 more runs and the entire team collapsed. Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by a huge margin of 103 runs.
