Chennai beat Mumbai by 7 wickets with Rahane’s tremendous batting

Ajinkya Rahane hit the quickest 50 of IPL 2023 to supplement CSK’s spinners in a proclamation seven-wicket triumph over individual IPL stalwart Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede.

Before Rahane could stun the MI bowlers with his variety of strokes around the ground, it was the twist sets of Ravindra Jadeja and Mitchell Santner that picked five wickets among them and penetrated openings into MI’s innings to leave them with a less than impressive aggregate. The Rahane-enlivened pursue was then covered off with 11 balls and seven wickets in excess, keeping MI winless in two games.

Mumbai Indians’ exhausted bowling assault came in for an attack from the neighborhood kid, who has grown up heaping on a pile of runs on surfaces like this. Devon Conway’s excusal in the principal over opened the floor for Ajinkya Rahane, who on CSK debut, set the stage well and genuinely land.

He got going with a flick off the hips to the fine leg wall in something very similar over and didn’t confound a solitary hit since. He pulled Jason Beherendorff for a six over square leg prior to destroying Arshad Khan in an over that read 6 4 4 4 4 – with a bunch of shots around the ground working with the gore. Rahane cut behind point, drove straight down the ground, flicked and pulled his direction to a 19-ball 50 years – the quickest of the time – inside the PowerPlay.

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