The 16th season of the Indian Premier League is special for Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni. According to media reports, Dhoni will take retirement from IPL after this season. In such a situation, the fans of MS Dhoni want to see him playing in all the matches of CSK this season. Meanwhile, in the match played against Lucknow Super Giants, MS Dhoni achieved a great feat.
The sixth match of IPL 2023 was played between Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai. Chennai captain MS Dhoni (MS Dhoni) played 3 balls in this match. But during this, 2 explosive sixes were seen from his bat. He played an inning of 12 runs in 3 balls. During his innings, he also completed his 5000 runs in IPL as soon as he scored 8 runs. Dhoni has become the overall 7th batsman to achieve this feat. At the same time, he became the 5th Indian batsman to touch the figure of 5000 runs in the IPL.
MS Dhoni achieved this feat in 208 innings of 236 matches. Earlier, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, and AB de Villiers reached the 5000 mark in IPL.
In this match against Lucknow Super Giants, Dhoni came out to bat in the 20th over. In this over, he did this feat by hitting 2 sixes against Mark Wood.
Batting first in this match, with the help of a century partnership between Rituraj Gaikwad and Devon Conway, Chennai Super Kings scored 217 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs against Lucknow Super Giants. Gaikwad scored 57 runs in 37 balls with the help of three fours and four sixes, while Devon Conway played an inning of 47 runs in 29 balls, including five fours and two sixes. Apart from this, Shivam Dube scored 27 runs in 16 balls, including one four and three sixes.
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Lucknow Super Giants got off to a great start chasing the target of 218 runs. He had scored 80 runs in the first six overs. Kyle Meyers played an inning of 53 runs off 22 balls. He hit eight fours and two sixes. He shared a 79-run partnership for the first wicket with captain KL Rahul. He was dismissed on the third ball of the sixth over. After the dismissal of Meyers, Lucknow suffered setbacks at regular intervals. Due to this, the team had to face defeat.
