Such a scene was seen last night at Gujarat’s home ground Narendra Modi Stadium which broke the hearts of crores of fans. Last night there was a match between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans in which CSK had to save its reputation but the entire team of CSK was limited to only 140 runs and had to face defeat by 89 runs. Because of this the team was also out of the race for the playoffs. After the match, captain Ruturaj Gaikwad said that his team wanted to complete the target quickly to keep alive the hopes of a place in the knockout but failed to do so. Gujarat Titans, who came to bat after losing the toss, set a mountain of 229 runs. Whereas the great bowlers of Gujarat destroyed the CSK batsmen by restricting them to 140 runs in the 14th over.

What did captain Ruturaj Gaikwad say?

Ruturaj Gaikwad said after the defeat in the match, ‘We wanted to achieve the target as soon as possible. When you are chasing a target of 230 runs, it is not easy against that bowling attack. We took a big risk and the credit goes to him. The wicket was a little soft in the beginning, they started well. Our bowling was not good in the powerplay. It was difficult to stop their opening batsmen. We had a chance to restrict them to less than 200 runs, but we could not do so.

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Captain Ruturaj explained the team’s injuries and lack of batsmen and said, ‘It has been a difficult season. We found rhythm after three consecutive defeats. We bowled in the right places but injuries troubled us. With Ghosh and Overton out, the balance of our team got disturbed. In the last three matches we lacked a batsman or bowling.

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Will MS Dhoni play next season?

Mahendra Singh Dhoni could not play a single match in the current season due to injury. On this, Gaikwad was asked whether Mahendra will play next season, on this Gaikwad said, ‘You and I, both of us will know about it next year. We missed him very much. He can change the course of the match by coming in the last overs just by staying at the crease. Nothing can be said yet about the next season but we are very happy with the players we have.