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Hello everyone and thanks for coming to read the summaries of match 24 and 25 of the IPL 2021. Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals were up against each other in the afternoon game at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium where Mumbai won comfortably at the end by 7 wickets. The evening game was between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Narendra Modi stadium where Delhi won the one-sided match by 7 wickets. Let's discuss each match separately. Mumbai won the toss in the first game and decided to bowl first. Mumbai dropped Ishan Kishan and brought in Nathan Coulter-Nile whereas Rajasthan had an unchanged playing 11 from the previous match. Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal opened the inning for Rajasthan and got their team a good start up-front. Buttler was lucky to be dropped in the early overs but he made use of that opportunity and ended up scoring 41 runs before being dismissed by Rahul Chahar. Jaiswal was the aggressive one in the partnership and he made 32 runs in 20 balls ...

Hello everyone and I apologize for being late with the match summary of Chennai Super Kings v/s Sunrisers Hyderabad, the 23rd match of IPL 2021. But better late than never, so here it is. The match was played at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi. David Warner won the toss and decided to bat first and MS Dhoni was happy to bowl first at the surface where we predicted something for the bowlers in the first inning and expected dew to play a role in the second inning. David Warner and Johnny Bairstow opened for Hyderabad but Bairstow was dismissed early for 7 runs by Sam Curran. Manish Pandey and Warner played well for the second wicket and built a strong partnership together but Warner struggled to play his shots. He couldn't score at a quick run rate as many of his well-timed shots went straight to the fielders. Manish showed some intent in his knock as he was brought back in the squad after being dropped for two matches. Both of them went on to make their half-centuries as Warne...

Hello everyone and thank you for joining again for another match summary. The 22nd match was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals at Narendra Modi stadium. Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first and they would have expected dew to come down just like the match the day before but there was no dew in this game and Bangalore held their nerves well as the match went to the last ball and they won by 1 run. Virat Kohli and Devdutt Paddikal opened the inning for Bangalore and the two made 25 runs in 3 overs. But Avesh Khan bowled Kohli on the last ball of the 4th over and Kohli went back after making 12 runs. Ishant Sharma bowled Paddikal on the first ball of the 5th over and Paddikal went back after making 17 runs. Glenn Maxwell hit a few boundaries and looked good but was dismissed on 25 runs. Bangalore was 3 wickets down on 60 runs at that stage. Rajat Patidar and AB de Villiers next put up a good partnership and the two added 54 runs for the 4th wicket befor...

Hello everyone and thank you for coming to read the match summary of match 21 of the IPL 2021. Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders played this match on the Narendra Modi stadium and Kolkata won the lucky toss and they decided to bowl first. Kolkata went with an unchanged team while Punjab made just one change and brought in Chris Jordan on Fabian Allen's place. The match was a low scoring one and Kolkata got a much-needed victory at the end.  KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal opened the batting for Punjab and they couldn't score freely in the power play overs. KL was dismissed in the 6th over on 19 runs but Punjab had just 36 runs on the board at that stage. Mayank played 34 balls but scored only 31 runs and was dismissed by Sunil Narine. Chris Gayle and Deepak Hooda got out cheaply and Punjab was 4 wickets down on 60 runs in the 12th over. Nicholas Pooran and Shahrukh Khan made 19 and 13 runs respectively but could not continue after that and they got out. Chris Jordan made 30 ru...

Hello everyone. We had 2 back-to-back IPL matches on 25th April. The 19th match was played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede stadium and Chennai won the match by 69 runs and regained the top spot on the points table. The 20th match was played between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram stadium and Delhi won the match in the super over in a very exciting contest. Talking first about the afternoon match, Chennai won the toss and decided to bat first. Dhoni took the call as he predicted that the wicket would get slow in the later stage of the game and he wanted to get runs on the board up-front. Chennai got a very good start by its openers as Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 33 runs and Faf du Plessis scored 50 runs. Suresh Raina at number 3 scored 24 runs before getting out and the game slowed down a bit at that stage. But Daniel Christian and Bangalore regretted dropping Ravindra Jadeja catch on 0 as he hit 37 runs in the 20th over and Ch...

Hello everyone and thank you for coming to read the summary of match 18 of the IPL 2021 that was played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders. Both the teams needed a win desperately and Rajasthan won this match to win after 2 consecutive losses. For Kolkata, it was their 4th consecutive loss. And the team looks in a very bad state. Talking from the beginning, Rajasthan won the toss and asked Kolkata to bat first at the Wankhede stadium. Shubhman Gill and Nitish Rana opened the inning for Kolkata and they got the worst start they could have dreamed of. Neither of the two openers could get going at any stage of the game and they struggled to time the ball. Shubhman Gill was run-out in the 6th over and he made just 11 runs in 19 balls. Kolkata was at 24 runs at that stage. Nitish Rana got out in the 9th over and he made 22 runs in 25 runs. Kolkata had 45 runs on board then. And Kolkata never recovered from there. Rahul Tripathi made 36 runs but he struggled too and Dinesh Ka...

Hello everyone and thanks for reading this summary of match 17 of the Dream 11 IPL 2021. Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings were up against each other and both teams needed a win in this match. Punjab won the toss and elected to bowl first at the MA Chidambaram stadium. Mumbai needed to put runs on the board for their bowlers to defend as its middle order had failed in the previous matches and wasn't helping the bowlers. Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Cock opened the inning for Mumbai but Quinton was dismissed by Deepak Hooda in the second over of the match. Mumbai surprisingly sent Ishan Kishan before Suryakumar Yadav but he too couldn't do much and was dismissed by Ravi Bishnoi in the 7th over. Mumbai only had 21 runs on board in the powerplay and things looked difficult for them from there but Suryakumar and Rohit built a strong partnership after that. Suryakumar scored 33 runs before being dismissed and the stage was set for the middle-order batsmen. But none of Kieron Pollard, H...

Hello everyone. Let's talk about the match that was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals. The match was played at Wankhede stadium and the toss went in Bangalore's favour and they decided to bowl first. The match proved to be one-sided at the end as Bangalore cruised to victory by 10 wickets.  Jos Buttler and Manan Vohra opened for Rajasthan in the first inning and Buttler was sent back by Mohammad Siraj in the 3rd over of the match. He played a bad shot and missed the ball completely and was bowled by Siraj on 8 runs. Manan Vohra followed his partner to the dressing room after scoring 7 runs as he was dismissed by Kyle Jamieson in the 4th over. David Miller was dismissed leg before by Siraj for a duck. Sanju Samson got a start but couldn't make it big yet again and got out on 21 runs in the 8th over. Rajasthan had lost 4 wickets for 43 runs at that stage. Riyan Parag looked to be in a good form but couldn't score more than 25 runs. Shivam Dub...

Hello everyone and belated Happy Ram Navami! I hope you all are keeping safe. Let's talk about matches 14 and 15 of the IPL 2021. The afternoon match was played between Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram stadium and the evening match was played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at Wankhede stadium. Punjab won the toss and decided to bat first. KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal opened the batting. But Bhuvneshwar Kumar struck early for Hyderabad and dismissed KL in the 4th over. Chris Gayle came in as the next batsman. Mayank played some good shots in his inning of 22 runs but was trapped by Khaleel Ahmed on the last ball of the 7th over. Unfortunately for Punjab, the new batsman Nicholas Pooran was run-out the very next ball. Rashid Khan got the wicket of Gayle in the 9th over who went back after scoring 15 runs. Abhishek Sharma got the wicket of Deepak Hooda in the 12th over and Punjab lost their top 5 batsmen at the score of 63 runs. Shahrukh Kha...

Hello everyone once again. Let's talk about the match 13 of the tournament that was played between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. Both teams had won their last matches and wanted to continue the winning spree but only one of them managed that after this match and it was the Delhi Capitals.  Rohit Sharma won the toss at the MA Chidambaram stadium and decided to bat first. He and Quinton de Cock opened the batting for Mumbai. But Quinton was dismissed on 2 runs by Marcus Stoinis in the 3rd over of the match. Suryakumar Yadav came in next and started playing his shots. Rohit too looked in good touch and was hitting his shots well. But both the batsmen were dismissed just when they looked set to go big. Mumbai had gotten a good start with 55 runs in the first 6 overs, but once Surya and Rohit got down, the match started turning in Delhi's favour. Hardik Pandya was dismissed by Amit Mishra in the same over that he got the wicket of Rohit. His brother, Krunal Pandya too didn'...

Hello everyone. Let's talk about the 12th match that was played between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Wankhede stadium. MS Dhoni was captaining Chennai in his 200th match and he was impressive yet again just like he has been over the years for the franchise. Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened the batting for Chennai but Gaikwad had his third consecutive failure. He struggled to time the ball and was dismissed on 10 runs. Faf played a quick-fire inning and made 17 balls - 33 runs but was dismissed by Chris Morris yet again. The next batsmen, Moeen Ali and Suresh Raina scored 26 and 18 respectively and tried maintaining the run rate. Ambati Rayudu too was impressive today and scored 27 runs in 17 balls. But once Chennai was 5 wickets down, their run-rate came down. MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja couldn't get quick runs and Chennai looked to lose the trail at that stage. But Sam Curran and Dwayne Bravo brough...

Hello everyone. Lets talk about the two IPL matches we witnessed on 18th April. It was the first double header of this season and Royal Challengers Bangalore was up against Kolkata Knight Riders in the afternoon match and Punjab Kings was up against Delhi Capitals in the evening match. The first game was played at Chidambaram stadium and second game was at Wankhede. Let's start with the first match. Virat Kohli won the toss and asked Eoin Morgan and decided to bat first. Runs on the board up-front has been the key to success for every team on this ground and Bangalore too wanted to put Kolkata under the pressure of runs when they would come out to bat in the second inning. Bangalore didn't have a good start and both Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar were dismissed by Varun Chakraborty in the second over. But Eoin Morgan for some reason decided not to give Varun the next over and that allowed Devdutt Padikkal and Glenn Maxwell to settle down. Maxwell started playing his shorts as so...

Hello everyone and thank you for turning up to read the summary of the 9th match of IPL 2021. The match was played between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad and it was the first time on MA Chidambaram stadium this season that any captain chose to bat first after winning the toss. The result of the last two matches on this ground was a factor for Mumbai Indians to choose to bat. Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock opened the batting. Rohit started playing his shots from the first over whereas Quinton looked to be in the anchor role. Rohit hit 2 sixes and 2 fours in his 25 balls - 32 runs before being dismissed by Vijay Shankar. The next batsman was Suryakumar Yadav. He too hit a couple of boundaries but was dismissed soon after. The half-centurion of the last 2 innings was dismissed on 10 runs this time. Shankar got his 2nd wicket of the match. Ishan Kishan came to bat next but he struggled throughout the time he stayed in the middle. Hyderabad bowlers bowled well to build pressure on...

Hello everyone. Let's talk about the 8th match of IPL 2021 that was played between Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings. MS Dhoni was playing his 200th match for Chennai, of which he captained the side in 199 matches and won 3 IPL trophies and 2 CLT20 trophies. And Dhoni could not have asked for a better result in this match. He won the toss at the Wankhede ground and asked KL Rahul and Punjab to bat first. Deepak Chahar is known for picking up wickets for Chennai up-front in the power play overs but he wasn't able to do so in the last few matches. But he made up for it in today's match. He dismissed Mayank Agarwal in the first over, Chris Gayle in second, Nicholas Pooran in third, and Deepak Hooda in the fourth over of his spell. KL Rahul too was run out in the third over of the power play and Punjab was reduced to 26 runs at the loss of 5 wickets at the end of 7 overs. The variation in Chahar's bowling was impressive. He dismissed Mayank on an out-swinger, Gayle and D...

Hello everyone. We just had another exciting match in IPL between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals. The match was played at Wankhede and Rajasthan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Delhi dropped Shimron Hetmyer to bring in an all-rounder Lalit Yadav at his place. Delhi was still missing Anrich Nortje as he has tested positive for COVID-19 but Kagiso Rabada was back into the playing 11. Rajasthan brought in Jaydev Unadkat and the replacement of Ben Stokes, David Miller into their team as Stokes has been ruled out of the tournament due to a wrist injury. Delhi had a very bad start and they lost the wickets of Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, and Marcus Stoinis while they had only 38 runs on the board. Jaydev Unadkat dismissed three out of them after giving away just 15 runs in his 4 overs. Rishabh Pant and Lalit Yadav put up a good little partnership for the fifth wicket and increased the run rate for Delhi. But Riyan Parag pulled off a brilliant effort to run-out P...

Hello everyone. It was yet another exciting game of IPL that we witnessed between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bangalore was coming after winning their previous game against Mumbai that went till the last ball and Hyderabad was coming after losing their previous match against Kolkata which they should have won. This was the fourth match on MA Chidambaram Stadium and now I wonder if the pitch is possessed by some ghost of a bowler. The toss was won by David Warner and he asked Virat Kohli and his team Bangalore to bat first. Kohli opened the inning with Devdutt Padikkal who had tested COVID positive before the start of the tournament and hence had to miss the first match for Bangalore. He didn't have a good game with the bat and was dismissed for 11 which he scored in 13 balls. Shahbaz Ahmed came at 3 and joined Kohli in the middle but he too couldn't stay for long and was held in the deep off the bowling of Shahbaz Nadeem. Glenn Maxwell and Kohli tried p...

Hello everyone. Did you watch today's match? Worry not if you could not. Read here about how the match played out. Kolkata's Eoin Morgan won the toss and asked Rohit's Mumbai to come to bat first on the slow pitch of MA Chidambaram Stadium. Mumbai couldn't get a good start and lost Quinton de Kock in the second over. Next came Suryakumar Yadav to join his captain Rohit in the middle. Surya started playing his shots from the moment he arrived and was taking on Kolkata's bowlers aggressively. But the bowlers were able to contain Rohit on the other end. The two had put on a solid partnership and Surya had reached his fifty as well off just 33 balls. Both looked all set to go big, but just then Shakib Al Hasan dismissed Surya on 56 and Ishan Kishan was held on in the deep in the very next over. Mumbai was 88 for 3 at this stage but they still had nearly half the inning remaining to get a big score from there. But that couldn't happen. Rohit was dismissed by Pat Cumm...