Mumbai: Bring on the Whistles, bring on the Yellove and bring on the celebrations. The fairy-tale IPL comeback, after a two-year suspension, is complete. The gang of ‘oldies’ is now a gang of ‘goldies’. Chennai Super Kings are back and back with a bang and they are the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 Champions.
Sunrisers Hyderabad, well-fought, but better luck next time. You deserved to be in the final but the Sunday night, at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, is CSK’s and of Shane Watson, the man, who once made winning gold in Yellow a habit while playing for Australia, has done it wearing CSK’s yellow.
Suresh Raina, who scored 32 and put up a mammoth 117-run second-wicket stand, wanted the team to win IPL 2018 for MS Dhoni and Watson put up his hand, saying, “I will do it for the skippa” as CSK lifted their third IPL trophy to equal Mumbai Indians’ record as the ‘Thala’ Dhoni became only the second skipper after Rohit Sharma to have led a team to three IPL triumphs.
After a tricky spell of first five overs, where CSK could only score 20 runs and Watson took 11 balls to open his account, chasing 180, the team chased down the steep SRH total with 9 balls to spare and 8 wickets in hand, overcoming Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s testing first spell and negating the Rashid Khan threat. DC
