MS Dhoni in action during IPL 2025© AFP
The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) icon MS Dhoni became the fourth Indian batsman to break 350 sixes in the T20 format during his stability against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Dhoni scripted a milestone for his name in the 16th over of the first innings, when Ryan Parag tried to pursue the Chennai captain with his round-arm and zig-zag movement. Dhoni was surprised by this, waiting at this time, and flattened it with his cruel force on Parag’s head. 43 -year -old Rohit Sharma (542), Virat Kohli (434) and Suryakumar Yadav (368) became only the fourth Indian batsman to achieve the achievement. Overall, the fiery Chris Gayle holds a record for most T20 maximum with a shocking tally of 1,056.
Experienced exploits of CSK ended the abundant delivery of the first innings. Dhoni padded the less full toss powerfully, but Tushar Deshpande rarely excluded his hands, and the ball got stuck in him. The commentator tried to understand the piece of Deshpande’s magic, Dhoni went back to the dressing room with a smile, 16 (17).
Chennai’s innings was fuel by Ayush Mhatre’s Quick-Fire 43 from only 20 delivery. After the dismissal of the 17 -year -old, CSK lost some wickets in a cluster. Shivam Dubey and Developed Brevis shared a 59 -run partnership to pull Chennai back into action.
When CSK showed signs of return, Akash Madhwal cleaned Brevis (42) with late swing touch. Dube flexed his boundary-touching provases by sending the ball for maximum, but lost his wicket on the first ball of the last over for Akash.
Ansul Kamboj got the border rope accurately, and Noor Ahmed ran two over the final delivery to lift Chennai up to 187/8, with Arun Jaitley Stadium’s high scoring nature of the Stadium, some were reducing some runs.
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