Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians, 30th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Find yourself a commitment of the magnitude that Mumbai have with losing season openers. Mind you, this was no opener, but for the sake of history and memes, they've still lost. CSK are predominantly a bunch of aged former legends and it clearly doesn't suit their style to play on a grassy deck, and they have broken out of jail today, but nevertheless, two points are two points. So this is me, Vineet Anantharaman, signing off on behalf of Raju Peethala, Nikhil Jadhav, Ramakrishnan MS and our scorer Siva. Until tomorrow, and with Kohli counting down to his T20-captaincy-retirement, ta ta!!

Ruturaj Gaikwad | MoM: Obviously one of my top innings till now. With the pressure of early wickets and with the seniors in the dressing room, I just had to grind and get the team to 130, 140 and then 150 was possible. When Mahi bhai is around and with the CSK management, once they back you, you don't have to think much. The SL tour and the preparation coming here did help too. Initially the ball was seaming and swinging so I had to take my chance against the spinners. Jaddu just came in and I had to take my chance and it came off well. Quinton was taking charge, and my drop at that stage could have been crucial, but luckily Deepak got him out soon after.

MS Dhoni | WInning captain: I think at 30/4, you want to get something respectable on the board and Ruturaj and Bravo got us more than what we expected. We had to bat exceptionally to get to 140, but to get to 160 was tremendous. The wicket was slightly two-paced and slow to start off with. Most of them got out to the slowness. If you come later and you want to go hard and that's why we lost wickets. I would have tried to get into the eighth or ninth over and then take it from there. You always think you could have gone harder earlier, but with wickets down, it was a risk. There's always a catch, one batter played till the end and the others contributed well. It's a give and take, you need to see how many fast bowlers have in the armoury and how much time they take to bowl their overs. If a fast bowler has a long run-up or wastes a lot of time, it is tough for the captains. It depends on the situation. Rayudu was smiling, so he hasn't broken his arm. He has four days now and that should help him.

Dwayne Bravo: It's a good feeling, obviously against MI it's the toughest team in IPL and it's like a final playing them, always a good feeling to win. Just tried to protect myself in the last stages of CPL and when I came over here, just had one bowling session which was yesterday and happy to get 4 overs through today. Now I bat lower down the order with the batting line-up like CSK, for me it's just about trying to get the momentum and try to capitalize, adjust and adapt. Just try to give the best of my ability whenever I go out to bat. He (Ruturaj) has been our star player end of last season and this season and he is a quality player. Played proper cricket shots and played till the end. He has appetite for runs and it's good to get over the line this game.

Kieron Pollard | Losing captain: We must have got a partnership. You can do a lot of things differently in hindsight. Losing by 20 runs, I think that is the difference. Gave too many with the ball at the end. Their batters tried to continue the momentum throughout, we didn't do that. We could have learnt from their mistake of losing too many wickets in the powerplay. We needed one guy to bat deep. We had a couple of soft dismissals. We can't let that happen at this level, but we still have six games to go.

Stat: CSK is the second team in IPL a team batting first went on to win after losing their first four wickets for 24 or fewer runs. The only other team was SRH (17/4) against PWI in Pune in 2013 (won by 11 runs).

- Only the second instance of MI losing chasing a target under 160 since the start of 2014. The other defeat came against SRH chasing 119 at Wankhede in 2018.

- First time in 12 matches MI have lost a match when they have chased (10 wins & one tie). Last outright defeat came against KKR chasing 233 in Kolkata in April 2019.

21:50 Local Time, 17:50 GMT, 23:20 IST: Just a small friendly reminder: Chennai were 24/4, probably even 24/5 with Rayudu injured, and they've found a way to win this by 20 runs. And it's not that Mumbai have choked; they've clearly been outthought here. So the law of momentum is a real thing, and Gaikwad and Bravo going nuts in the first innings at the death should convert even the staunchest of non-believers in this theory. Clearly that's where this game was won. Irrespective, Mumbai would have taken a target of 157 at the start. After all, all it needed was one big innings. But that's where Dhoni shone through, with some funky fields, smart bowling changes, drying up the singles, tying up the batsmen. It's no surprise, when there's some juice in the pitch, he does these things. Chahar was brilliant in the powerplay, Bravo in the middle, Hazlewood in his second spell, and it did help their cause that Mumbai's batsmen were keen to swing at everything. Right, stick around, we'll get you the presentations ..

Dwayne Bravo to Bumrah, 1 run, in-tailing, in-dipping, a very-Bravo slower yorker, squeezed into mid-wicket, and Chennai have successfully inflicted a strangle ..

Dwayne Bravo to Bumrah, no run, dipping yorker, on middle. Bumrah - clueless li'l Bumrah - nearly plays all around it, ending up digging it onto his leg

Jasprit Bumrah, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Dwayne Bravo to Rahul Chahar, out Caught by Raina!! Now, now. Chahar wants to slog-sweep, and the daredevilry will only get him the inside-half of his bat dragging down short mid-wicket's throat. Rahul Chahar c Raina b Dwayne Bravo 0(1)

Dwayne Bravo to Rahul Chahar, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Dwayne Bravo to Saurabh Tiwary, 1 run, dances down, gets yorked, and jams it in front of mid-on. Also, the match may be gone, but a milestone's here -- a personal fifty

Rahul Chahar, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Dwayne Bravo to Milne, out Caught by (sub)Gowtham !! Slow. 99.2kph slow. Almost a slot ball though, as Milne rocks behind and swipes across the line. And connects decently too. But picks out a reverse-cupping Gowtham waiting right by the deep square leg boundary. Milne c (sub)Gowtham b Dwayne Bravo 15(15) [6s-1]

Dwayne Bravo to Milne, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Dattatray: Chennai scored the 39 runs in last two overs. Mumbai needed the same in last 2. That highlights how even a couple of good overs can decide the fate of the game.

Dwayne Bravo to Saurabh Tiwary, 1 run, 128.7kph, wide, outside off, squirted away through point. 23 runs | 5 balls

Dwayne Bravo [3.0-0-22-1] is back into the attack