Rohit Sharma's century in vain as Mumbai Indians taste another defeat

Chennai Super Kings team has achieved its fourth success of the season by performing brilliantly at the Wankhede Stadium. At the same time, Mumbai team has to face its fourth defeat of IPL 2024. Former captain Rohit Sharma tried his best to ensure victory for Mumbai, but he failed. Starting the innings, he faced a total of 63 balls. Meanwhile, he managed to play an unbeaten century inning of 105 runs at a strike rate of 166.67. During this period, 11 fours and 5 excellent sixes came from his bat. Despite this excellent innings of Sharma, MI team had to face defeat by 20 runs against CSK.

Apart from Rohit, young batsman Tilak Verma was the second highest scorer for Mumbai while chasing the target. Batting at fourth position, Verma contributed 31 runs in 20 balls. Apart from these two batsmen, other batsmen of Mumbai were seen struggling for runs in front of CSK bowlers today.

Earlier, after losing the toss and batting first at Wankhede Stadium, Chennai team managed to score 206 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. Chennai's start after getting the invitation to bat was nothing special. Ajinkya Rahane, who came to start the innings, was out after scoring just 5 runs. Soon after this, Ravindra Rachin (21) also started walking to the pavilion.

However, from here captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (69) and Shivam Dubey (66 not out) took charge and defeated the Mumbai bowlers. These two batsmen made a partnership of 90 runs for the third wicket, then in the last moments, former captain MS Dhoni (20 not out) hit 3 consecutive sixes and took Chennai's score to 206 runs.

Despite the tremendous beating at the Wankhede Stadium, Hardik was the first batsman to take the most wickets for Mumbai. He bowled a total of 3 overs for his team in this match. Meanwhile, he took 2 wickets while spending 43 runs at an economy of 14.30. Apart from them, Gerald Coetzee and Shreyas Gopal achieved 1-1 success respectively.

Young fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana, who played an important role in the victory of Chennai Super Kings, has been given the 'Player of the Match' award. The victims of Pathirana were Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Romario Shepherd.