Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians: Chennai defeated Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in the first match. Captain Suryakumar Yadav stopping Vignesh Puthur's fourth over was one of the three major reasons for the defeat.

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3 Big Reasons of MI Lost to CSK: Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in the second match of the double header on Sunday. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 155 runs. CSK captain Rituraj Gaikwad gave a good start along with Rachin Ravindra, after which Vignesh Puthur brought Mumbai Indians back by taking 2 wickets but Suryakumar Yadav made a big mistake by stopping his fourth over. Chennai won the match by 4 wickets by scoring the winning run on the first ball of the last over. Know here what were the 3 big reasons for the defeat of Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai Indians top batsman flopped

Mumbai Indians, who came to bat first after losing the toss, had a very bad start. Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion without opening his account. He was dismissed by Khalil Ahmed. After this, the second opener Ryan Rickelton also got out after scoring 13 runs. No batsman of Mumbai Indians performed well. You can guess this from the fact that the highest score in the innings was of Tilak Verma, who scored 31 runs. Captain Suryakumar scored 29 runs. It was Deepak Chahar who scored 28 runs in the end, otherwise the team would have been limited to around 130. Will Jacks scored 11, Robin Minj scored 3 runs.

Stopping Vignesh Puthur proved costly

The 67-run partnership between Rituraj and Rachin had put Chennai in a strong position. But Vignesh Puthur, who came as an impact player in place of Rohit Sharma, bowled brilliantly in his debut match. He got Mumbai back in the match by dismissing Shivam Dubey (9) after Rituraj (56). After this, he took the third wicket in the form of Deepak Hooda. He had taken 3 wickets in 3 overs but Suryakumar Yadav stopped his over. Perhaps this was a big mistake by Surya. Puthur took 3 wickets for 32 runs in his 4-over spell. If he had bowled the fourth over during that time, he could have increased the problems of CSK by taking a wicket.

All four foreign players of MI flopped

All the four foreign players in the playing 11 of Mumbai Indians team flopped. Ryan Rickelton scored 13 and Will Jacks scored 11 runs. In bowling, Trent Bolt gave 27 runs in 3 overs and did not take any wicket. Spinner Mitchell Santner bowled 2.1 overs and gave 24 runs, he also did not take any wicket. Will Jacks took 1 wicket for 32 runs in 4 overs, he also could not make a big impact.