South Africa’s Ryan Rickelton of the Mumbai Indians belted five sixes in his unbeaten 36 off 21 balls as he took his team to 57-1 in the powerplay in their key Tata IPL clash against traditional rivals Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Saturday night.
Both teams are languishing in the bottom half of the table but MI, in particular, are fast approaching the point of no return. Victory for them is a necessity.
Rickelton, following his stunning century in a losing cause against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, was in six-hitting mode after the early loss of partner Will Jacks for one, well caught on the point boundary by Ramakrishna Ghosh off the bowling of Anshul Kamboj. Mumbai won the toss and opted to bat first.
Match report to folllow...
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), 3 Urvil Patel, 4 Dewald Brevis, 5 Shivam Dube, 6 Jamie Overton, 7 Ramakrishna Ghosh, 8 Prashant Veer, 9 Noor Ahmad, 10 Anshul Kamboj, 11 Mukesh Choudhary
MUMBAI INDIANS: 1 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 2 Will Jacks, 3 Naman Dhir, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Hardik Pandya (capt), 7 Robin Minz, 8 Krish Bhagat, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 AM Ghazanfar