IPL 2024: CSK captain Ruduraj Gaekwad said that he did not expect to score a century in the match against Hyderabad.
The league rounds of the IPL series are going on in full swing. While 46 matches have been completed so far, Chennai team and Hyderabad team conducted multi-test yesterday. Hyderabad won the toss and fielded first in the match held at Chennai’s Chepakkam ground.
Accordingly, the Chennai team, who batted first, scored 212 runs losing only 3 wickets in 20 overs. Chennai captain Ruduraj Gaekwad played well and scored 98 runs off 54 balls. He lost his wicket when he needed 2 runs to score a century.
Following this, the Hyderabad team lost all wickets in 18.5 overs and scored only 134 runs. Chennai team won by 78 runs. Tusshar Deshpande was amazing with 4 wickets.
Ruduraj Gaekwad was selected as the man of the match. After this, Ruduraj Gaikwad said, I feel good with this win. Playing on a damp pitch is always difficult. Winning by more than 70 runs in such an environment is great.
There is also a good look at the toss. There is no injury to my finger so to speak. In the last match I batted 20 overs and fielded 20 overs. It was almost the same today. This is just a little tiring, otherwise no injury.
I thought I wanted to score more than 220 runs, but I didn’t think I wanted to score a century and I couldn’t score a century, I didn’t care. But in the end it was sad that I couldn’t score more runs faster.
However, this goal was sufficient. We made some bowling mistakes in the last match. We are doing well now. We were good in fielding too. An extra 20 runs is always required by the impact player rule.
This leads to confusion as to what the goal of success is. Tusshar Deshpande bowled well. His hard work has paid off. Apart from that, Jadeja’s bowling was excellent on the damp pitch.
This is the turning point in this match, he said. Also, I cannot and will not tell the senior players what to do in the dressing room. Let them take the back seat and they will do their jobs better, he said.
