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Last night we witnessed a short carnage in the last over of CSK inning with trademark ‘Dhoni’ shots by the man himself, although he was caught on the 3rd ball he faced but first 2 balls he played reminded us “Tiger abhi zinda hai”.

Last Matches Summary

Match 6 - Chennai Super Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants

Wow, what a high scoring match it was. 422 runs in 40 overs. Ruturaj continued his terrific performance and now has consecutive half centuries in 2 games, Devon Conway supported him well in the opening stand but highlight of CSK inning was Thala Dhoni’s back to back two sixes in the final over 😃 

LSG had a great start with Kyle Mayers picking up from where he left off in the last match but LSG fell short just a bit with Moeen Ali picking up 4 key wickets for CSK.

Brief Score: Chennai Super Kings (Ruturaj Gaikwad 57, Devon Conway 47; Ravi Bishnoi 3/28) beat Lucknow Super Giants (Kyle Mayers 53, Nicholas Pooran 32; Moeen Ali 4/26) by 12 runs

Impact Player: Tushar Deshpande replaced Ambati Rayudu (CSK) and Ayush Badoni replaced Avesh Khan (LSG)

Player of the Match: Moeen Ali

Today’s Match Preview

Match 7 - Delhi Capitals vs Gujrat Titans

First home game for Delhi Capitals in Firoz Shah Kotla stadium this season after four long years 🙁 .

Team form IPL2023

Delhi Capitals - L

Gujrat Titans - W

Delhi Capitals Probable XI: 1 David Warner (capt), 2 Prithvi Shaw, 3 Mitchell Marsh, 4 Rilee Rossouw, 5 Sarfaraz Khan (wk), 6 Rovman Powell, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Aman Khan/Kamlesh Nagarkoti, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Chetan Sakariya, 11 Khaleel Ahmed

Gujrat Titans Probable XI: 1 Shubman Gill, 2 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 3 David Miller, 4 Matthew Wade, 5 Hardik Pandya, (capt) 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Shivam Mavi, 9 Jayant Yadav/R Sai Kishore 10 Alzarri Joseph, 11 Mohammed Shami

A Tweet

Today’s tweet is not about Cricket but sports in general, and what it should make us as a human being at least - Humble 🫡 

A Picture

A fun fact

Cricket is the only sport in the world that has a "Law" that specifically prohibits the use of sandpaper to alter the condition of the ball. This is because sandpaper can be used to make the ball more difficult to bat against, which can give an unfair advantage to the bowling team.

This law was introduced in 2018, after a number of high-profile incidents of ball-tampering were caught on camera.

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Gaurav