also lost against Chennai Super Kings. With this, Mumbai lost two
consecutive matches in IPL season 16. Mumbai lost against Chennai by 7
wickets in this match which was held at Wankhede Stadium on the home ground.
Rahane scored 61 runs in just 27 balls for Chennai and got the
second fastest half century in the history of IPL. However, Mumbai Indians
who batted first scored 157 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the 20 overs.
Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan, who opened the batting innings for Mumbai,
gave a good start. 38 runs lost in just 23 balls. But on the last ball of
the fourth over bowled by Tushar Deshpande, Rohit (21) was cleanbowled and
went to the pavilion. After that, Ishan, who was playing steadily, also
gave a catch to Pretorius in the bowling of Jadeja and left the field.
Except for Tilak Verma (22) and Tim David (31), who came later, none of
them could perform consistently.
On behalf of Chennai, Jadeja took 3 wickets, Santner, Desh Pandey took 2
wickets and Sisanda Magala took one wicket. After Mumbai’s innings ended,
Chennai came into the ring with a target of 158 runs. Ajinkya Rahane
performed consistently with Gaikwad. In this sequence he also crossed the
50 runs mark in 20 balls. With this, he equaled the second fastest
half-century record held by his teammate Moeen Alli.
