The journey of 5-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2024 ended with a defeat against RCB. On Saturday night, 18th May, RCB defeated CSK by 27 runs. In this match, RCB had set a target of 219 runs for CSK to win, although Chennai had to score only 201 runs to qualify for the playoffs, but the team failed to reach even this score.

Chennai Super Kings could score only 191 runs after batting 20 overs and the team had to face defeat by 27 runs. After the end of the match, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is being blamed for the defeat of Chennai Super Kings. Actually, Dhoni had hit a six off the ball of Yash Dayal outside the stadium, due to which the ball had to be changed and from there the match was overturned.

In fact, RCB captain Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli were demanding the umpires to change the ball for a long time. Actually, due to the rain that came during the start of the match, whenever the ball was going out of the boundary, the ball was coming out wet. In such a situation, the bowlers were finding it difficult to grip the ball. Dinesh Karthik also agreed to the same thing.

The match changed because of that six by Dhoni – Dinesh Karthik

RCB wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik also admitted that Dhoni’s six changed the match. “The best thing that happened today was that Dhoni hit the ball out of the ground, then we got a new ball which made it easier to bowl,” Karthik said in the RCB dressing room.

When Dhoni lost the ball by hitting a six off the first ball of Yash Dayal and then the ball was changed, RCB benefited from it. Yash Dayal bowled the next 5 balls back of the hand slower. Since the ball was not wet, Yash Dayal was able to grip the ball well, which ultimately benefited RCB.