Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings won the first match at home. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side picked up their first win of the season by beating the last-time champions Lucknow Supergiant by a run on Monday (April 3), Chennai lost the toss and started to bat. The hosts scored 110 runs in the opening pair with the devastating batting of the two openers. Ruturaj Gaikwad played a great inning of 57 runs off 31 balls and returned to the ball of Ravi Vishnair. Devon Conway was caught by Mark Wood for 47 off 29 balls. After that, the speed of the run started to decrease gradually. Shivam Dubey, who scored 27 runs off 16 balls, and Moeen Ali, who scored 19 runs off 13 balls, were brought back by Bishnyi.

In the end, Ambati Rayudu and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s great batting saw Chennai get a huge collection of 217 runs. Lucknow started as beautiful as a dream in the hilly pursuit. The team scored 73 runs in 5 overs with the superhuman batting of Kyle Myers. Myers returned to Moeen Ali by scoring 53 runs off 22 balls. Then Lokesh Rahul’s team quickly lost two more wickets. Nicholas Puran made some effort by scoring 32 runs off 18 balls. But when he returned to Tushar Deshpande, Lucknow’s hope of victory ended. At the end of the scheduled 20 overs, after losing 7 wickets, Laksham’s collection stood at 205 runs. Chennai won by 12 runs.