After two back-to-back defeats on the road, Chennai Super Kings returned to the comforts of home and to winning ways, consigning Kolkata Knight Riders to their first loss of IPL 2024. On a surface that was commonplace of the one we have been utilized to at Chepauk in seasons past, CSK bowled first and confined KKR to 137 for 9. This after KKR had hustled to 56 for 1 in the powerplay. In any case, as the ball progressed in years, the CSK bowlers, drove by Ravindra Jadeja who picked 3 for 18, made their mark. In the pursuit, Ruturaj Gaikwad got once more into structure, shepherding the innings with an unbeaten 58-ball 67 to take CSK over the line with seven wickets and 14 balls in excess. He added 70 off 55 balls with Daryl Mitchell (25 off 19) preceding Shivam Dube came in and tonked 28 off 18 to take CSK closer. With three to win, in strolled MS Dhoni, causing commotion in the Chepauk stands. However, it was Gaikwad who fittingly polished off the pursuit by crashing Anukul Roy through covers. Gaikwad's invite return to frame It hasn't been the most grounded of starts for Gaikwad in IPL 2024. Coming into the game, he had just overseen 88 runs in four innings, averaging 22 in the competition. Be that as it may, with an unobtrusive objective before him, he had relations with in for the long stretch. After a careful first finished, he kicked off a slope off Vaibhav Arora and moved from 4 off 9 to 32 off 23 toward the finish of the powerplay. The early catalyst was given by Rachin Ravindra who pursued Mitchell Starc, yet when he fell, Gaikwad made a point to keep the things pushing ahead. With Ajinkya Rahane battling with a calf strain, he had extra liability and took up the job well. Gaikwad assumed the left-arm twist of Anukul Roy, stepping back first wad of the fifth over and creaming him through covers. He rehashed those shots two times over prior to crushing Vaibhav Arora for two consecutive fours. CSK had dashed to 52 for 1 toward the finish of the powerplay. CSK make it 3/3 at home Gaikwad got great help from Mitchell and Dube in assisting CSK with moving past the line. Mitchell, elevated up the request to No. 3, hit his lashes by pounding Sunil Narine for a six and four following the powerplay. The pair didn't necessarily in every case keep the limits streaming however they kept the scoreboard ticking. In the 36 balls between overs six to 12, they scored 44 runs - 17 singles, five duplicates, two fours and one six - and that was all CSK required as the asking run rate crawled underneath the six an over mark. When Mitchell fell, it was the Dube show as he proceeded with his cheerful spat IPL 2024. He pounded Varun Chakravarthy for consecutive sixes and afterward built Arora for another over profound midwicket. Dube is the flow driving run-scorer for CSK this season and has a strike pace of 193.93 against all spinners. On Monday, he just improved his certifications. It didn't take long for CSK to polish off the pursuit after Dube fell, enclosing up the game by 17.4 overs. Sunil Narine - the powerplay ruler Subsequent to losing the throw and a wicket off the primary chunk of the game, KKR were set up by Sunil Narine, their powerplay wrecker-in-boss this season. He pursued Tushar Deshpande in his second finished. A four through square leg, one over mid-off and afterward a six over profound square - Narine was far up into the clouds. Not so much as a shoulder injury appeared to stop him. During his innings, Narine likewise went past Virat Kohli to now have the most runs in the powerplay this season - 127 at a strike pace of 201.58. He found a partner in Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who forged ahead from his presentation innings as the pair added 56 runs off 36 balls for the subsequent wicket. The log jam graciousness Ravindra Jadeja The CSK spinners had not gotten a solitary wicket at Chepauk in the initial two matches there in IPL 2024. Furthermore, Jadeja appeared to by and by take it. He got three wickets in his initial eight chunks of the match, placing a major scratch in the KKR center request. He previously sent back Raghuvanshi, who got down to business for an opposite clear, missed and was gotten right in front. Then, at that point, he disposed of Narine for the fourth time in five T20 innings, the hitter cutting a length ball directly to long-off. Venkatesh Iyer was Jadeja's third casualty holing out to profound midwicket with Mitchell taking a decent find jumping forward. Ordinarily Jadeja's arrangement in these circumstances is to be just about as exact as could really be expected. Here he realized he needed to do another thing also. Not bowl full. Let the regular variety that this pitch was offering do its thing. Subsequent to scoring 56 in the initial six overs, KKR just oversaw 43 in the following nine, losing four wickets all the while. The quicks go sluggish When 15 overs were finished, Gaikwad got the quick bowlers into play, and they depended more on the cutters. Deshpande had Rinku Singh slashing one back onto his stumps before Mustafizur Rahman dominated. He could have been falling off a long run-up however got more slow cutters in, which would have done right by any sluggish left-arm customary spinner. He conveyed a heavenly last over getting two wickets and yielding only two runs. While Deshpande wrapped up with 3 for 33 off his four overs, Mustafizur picked 2 for 22, and turned into the most noteworthy wicket-taker in the opposition. Sixteen of the 24 balls conveyed by the team in the last four overs were cutters, and KKR did not know.