Chennai Super Kings, who were struggling to chase 160s and 170 last year due to lack of acceleration in the middle overs, have suddenly transformed themselves into the beasts of the middle order in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and thus have been consistently putting scores of 190-200.
Saturday was the perfect example of the elongated batting line-up utilising themselves perfectly. After Faf du Plessis and Moeen Ali stitched a 108-run partnership, CSK lost three wickets for just four runs, one would have thought, they will slow down and will look to play a few overs with strike rotation and then go big with only skipper MS Dhoni and Sam Curran to come.
But to fans’ surprise and to Mumbai Indians’ shock, there was Ambati Rayudu-named storm incoming. Rayudu was in some god mode on Saturday, he just flew and didn’t look back. Ravindra Jadeja wasn’t getting his timing right and he didn’t need to as Rayudu was on song from ball one.
Rayudu hit his…
