MS Dhoni
The 30th match of IPL 2025 saw a fierce competition between Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants. In this match played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, Chennai registered a stunning win by 5 wickets under Dhoni’s captaincy. With this victory, Chennai ended the process of 5 consecutive defeats. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Shivam Dubey contributed significantly to Chennai’s victory. The two had a brilliant partnership of 57 runs for the 57 wickets, due to which Chennai’s team managed to achieve a target of 167 runs in 19.3 overs.
Shivam Dubey scored 43 runs from 37 balls and returned unbeaten. At the same time, captain Dhoni scored an unbeaten 26 off 11 balls thanks to 4 fours and 1 six. Dhoni was adjudged Player of the Match for this brilliant innings and thus he made great wonders in the IPL. Dhoni has been selected in the IPL after 6 years. The last time he was awarded the Player of the Match Award for an unbeaten 44 -run innings against Delhi Capitals in IPL 2019. Dhoni won this big award at the age of 43 years 282 days. In this way, he equaled Virat Kohli and David Warner in terms of winning the highest player of the match award in the IPL.
Players who won the highest player of the match award in IPL
- 25 – AB de Villiers
- 22 – Chris Gayle
- 19 – Rohit Sharma
- 18 – MS Dhoni*
- 18 – David Warner
- 18 – Virat Kohli
Dhoni expressed happiness over victory
After winning the Player of the Match Award, Dhoni said in the post match presentation that it is nice to win. When you play such a tournament, you want to win the match. Unfortunately, the results of the first matches did not go in favor of the team. There can be many reasons for this. It is good to win. This gives confidence to the entire team and helps us improve the things in which we want to improve. He said that it was a difficult match. If you look at the powerplay, whether it is combined or circumstances, we were struggling with the ball. And then we could not start as a batting unit we wanted. Also falling wickets. The team lost wickets at the wrong time. We performed well as a bowling unit. As a batting unit, we can do better.
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