Played the biggest innings at number eight, who broke Dhoni's great record?

New Delhi. Chennai Super Kings' IPL 2026 campaign has started with a defeat. CSK, captained by Ruturaj Gaikwad, suffered a crushing defeat by 8 wickets against Rajasthan Royals. Batting first, Chennai Super Kings were all out for just 127 runs in 19.4 overs. Rajasthan Royals chased the target very easily. While Chennai's top and middle order looked a complete flop, Jamie Overton, coming down the order, played a very useful inning of 43 runs, on the basis of which CSK's score crossed 100 runs. With this inning, Overton broke the great record of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Actually, this is the biggest innings by CSK while batting at 8th or lower order. Before Overton, this record was in the name of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who had played an unbeaten inning of 37 runs while batting at number 8 against Delhi Capitals at Visakhapatnam ground in the year 2024.

Second highest partnership for the 10th wicket
Jamie Overton made a partnership of 33 runs with Anshul Kamboj for the 10th wicket. This is the joint second highest partnership for the 10th wicket in IPL history. In the year 2024, while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Pat Cummins and Vijaykant Vyaskant scored 33 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders. The pair of Shikhar Dhawan-Mohit Rathi tops this list, who made an unbroken partnership of 55 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad while playing for Punjab Kings in the year 2023. However, Mohit Rathi contributed only 1 run in this.

Chennai made the third smallest total (in the first innings)
The 127 runs scored in this match is also the third lowest score of Chennai Super Kings in the first innings in IPL history. CSK was restricted to just 109 runs against the same team during the IPL match played in Jaipur in 2008. At the same time, during the match played in Abu Dhabi in the year 2020, it could only score 125/5 in 20 overs.

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What happened in the match?
If we look at the match, CSK, who came to bat first after losing the toss, were all out for 127 runs in 19.4 overs. For Rajasthan Royals, Jofra Archer took 2 wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs, Nandre Berger took 2 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs, and Ravindra Jadeja took 2 wickets for 18 runs in 3 overs. Brijesh Sharma, Sandeep Sharma and Ravi Bishnoi got 1 wicket each. Rajasthan bowlers completely destroyed CSK's top order and did not give them a chance to return to the match. Chasing the target, Rajasthan won the match by scoring 128 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 12.1 overs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi played an innings of 52 runs in 17 balls. Yashasvi Jaiswal remained unbeaten after scoring 38 runs on 36 balls. RR fast bowler Nandre Berger was the player of the match. Burger took 2 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs.

After this win, Rajasthan has come joint second with Punjab Kings in terms of registering the most wins against CSK in the IPL. Mumbai Indians have achieved the maximum win against CSK in the history of IPL. Mumbai Indians have defeated CSK in 21 matches. Let us tell you that both CSK and MI are the two most successful teams of IPL. Both have won the title 5-5 times. Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals are jointly second in terms of registering the most wins against CSK. Both have won 16-16 matches. RCB has defeated CSK in 13 matches and is the third successful team. Delhi Capitals are at fourth position with 12 wins and Kolkata Knight Riders are at fifth position with 11 wins.