2024-03-24 11:23:01
Bangladesh cricket fans may not have thought that Chennai Super Kings will play Mostafizur Rahman in their first match. So they were happy to see his name in the XI. But that was just a flash of happiness. It was still raining.
Bengaluru’s Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli scored 37 runs in 4 overs in stormy batting against Chennai.
Captain Rituraj Gaikwad brought Mustafiz to bowl in the fifth over. Dot the first ball, hit the boundary with the next ball. Marmukhi took the wicket of du Plessis batting with a great off-cutter on the third ball. Then Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s gloves behind the wicket on the sixth ball sent back the new batsman Rajat Patidar.
Coming back in the twelfth over, Mustafiz took the wicket again. The best batsman of the time, Virat Kohli, was caught by Rachin Ravindra while hitting his second ball through mid-wicket. Then he picked up another wicket in the fourth ball. This time, Bangalore’s star all-rounder Cameron Green got bowled after being defeated by his cutter. The Fizz took the reins of Bengaluru’s batting by picking up four wickets each with just 7 runs in 2 overs.
After that, Mustafiz scored 7 runs in the 17th over and 16 runs in the 19th over. He took 4 wickets with 29 runs in 4 overs in the opening match of 2024 IPL. Chennai Super Kings won the match by 6 wickets based on his great bowling. Mostafiz won the man of the match award for his impressive bowling in the first match.
Summary Score:
Bangalore: 173/6 in 20 overs (Anuj 48, Karthik 38*, du Plessis 35; Mostafiz 4-0-29-4).
Chennai: 176/4 in 18.4 overs (Rachin 37, Dubey 34*, Rahane 27; Green 3-0-27-2).
Results: Chennai won by 6 wickets.
Man of the Match: Mostafizur Rahman.