Chennai Super Kings (CSK) returned to the winning track on Monday by defeating Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by five wickets. This is their first win after losing five consecutive matches. In this match played at the Ekana Stadium, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the team to victory with brilliant batting and set new records.

Dhoni won the Player of the Match award at the age of 43

Dhoni, who came to bat at number seven against Lucknow, scored 26 runs in 11 balls with the help of four fours and a six. He led the team to victory by making an unbeaten partnership of more than 50 runs with Shivam Dubey. 'Thala' was chosen as the Player of the Match in this match. The 43-year-old batsman became the oldest player to win this award in IPL.

Dhoni created a record as a fielder.

In this match, Dhoni set another record as a fielder. He also made the record for dismissing the most number of batsmen. Dhoni has sent batsmen to the pavilion 201* times in IPL. This includes catch-outs, stumps, and run-outs. Interestingly, among active players, only Virat Kohli is behind him who has dismissed the opposition team's batsmen 116 times as a fielder.

Players who dismissed batsmen the most number of times
Player Fielding Dismissals
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 201*
Dinesh Karthik 182
AB de Villiers 126
Robin Uthappa 124
Wriddhiman Saha 118
Virat Kohli 116

Dhoni expressed happiness
After registering the second win of the season, captain Dhoni said - It feels good to win. Unfortunately, we could not win the last match but this win has increased our confidence. It was a tough match and we are happy to win. Hopefully, this will set the team's rhythm. In the previous matches, we were struggling in the first six overs while bowling but we made a comeback in the middle overs. We were not getting the desired start as a batting unit. Maybe because of the Chennai wicket. Hopefully, we will perform better in the future on better wickets.

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