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Match- 30 Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians

 Rutu-RAJ shines over a dull a Mumbai Indians 

The Indian Premier League of 2021 is back in action. After its postponement in May, this is the first game in the remainder of the IPL. The Mahendra Singh Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings take on Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians. 

It was earlier speculated that Faf Du Plessis of the yellow brigade was set to miss on the first game due to an injury. Good news is that he can feature in the game after he cleared the fitness test. The MI squad suffered a blow as Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya will miss out on the season opener. Kieron Pollard will be Mumbai Indians stand in captain. 

The Dubai International Stadium got a firing start to the league. Ruturaj Gaikwad, the opening batsman of the CSK was the lone support to get the yellow squad to get to 156/6(20) none of the other batsman could support the youngster to capitalize on a big score. As Mumbai Indians bowling squad, Bumrah and Boult get the better of the CSK batting order. 

What maybe difficult for the Mumbai Indians squad is to capitalize on the chase. Quick wickets sent the batsman walking back to the dressing room at the hands of Deepak Chahar and Dwayne Bravo. Some of the batsman are still struggling and are not in form! Anmolpreet Singh featured in his first game of the league. Unfortunately, he couldn't get settled for a consistent score. The Mumbai Indians fall short of 20 runs in their opening game. Chennai Super Kings get a sweet victory on their day one in office. Ruturaj Gaikwad is declared Man of the Match for a 88*(58) to anchor the innings for Chennai Super Kings.

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