By Admin 
Chennai Super Kings had to face Gujarat Titans on Thursday night in which Chennai had to face a big defeat. With this, Cieske’s journey has ended this season. CSK had a fight or kill match with Gujarat. After the crushing 89-run defeat at the hands of Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium, Chennai Super Kings fans were seen very emotional on social media platforms. With this, CSK was reduced to seventh place in the points table and after being completely out of the playoff race, keywords like ‘CSK’, ‘Chennai Super Kings’, ‘Ruturaj Gaikwad’ and ‘MS Dhoni’ remain in the top trends on X and Instagram.
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Emotional reactions of fans on social media
In front of the huge mountain of 229 runs of Gujarat Titans, the entire Chennai team was reduced to just 140 runs. Reactions of Chennai Super Kings fans are becoming increasingly viral on social media. It is a matter of great sadness for any fan to see his favorite team being eliminated from the tournament like this. Some fans are expressing their pain through memes, while many fans are expressing their displeasure over the disappointing performance of captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and the top order, while crores of fans of MS Dhoni are sharing emotional posts after seeing his last glimpse in this season.
Talking about the match, Gujarat Titans, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 229 runs for 4 wickets on the basis of brilliant innings of 84 runs by Sai Sudarshan and 64 runs by captain Shubman Gill. There was an opening partnership of 125 runs between the two batsmen. In the end, Jos Buttler put the team in a strong position by playing an unbeaten inning of 57 runs in 27 balls. The team of Chennai Super Kings was out of the match somewhere in the first innings itself.
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The condition of Chennai Super Kings worsened in the second innings. The team had a very bad start and in front of the lethal bowling of Mohammad Siraj, 3 wickets fell for 29 runs in the third over itself.
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After this, Shivam Dubey gave some hope by playing a quick inning of 47 runs in 17 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 4 fours, but as soon as he was out, the entire team fell apart like a pack of cards. In the match, Mohammed Siraj, Rashid Khan and Kagiso Rabada from Gujarat took 3 wickets each and bundled out Chennai’s entire innings for 140 runs in 13.4 overs.