Published 11:22 IST, May 11th 2023

CSK subtly trolls MS Dhoni as he confuses everyone by naming Rayudu as Dube's replacement

Amidst the CSK win over DC in the IPL 2023 match, Chennai Super Kings have subtly trolled skipper MS Dhoni for a small fumble he did during the toss.

Reported by: Saksham Nagar
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Delhi Capitals were t able to beat MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings in CSK vs DC IPL 2023 match and lost by 27 runs. whole Chennai batting line up including Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, and Dhoni contributed to team's score by playing cameo innings of 20 to 30 runs and helped team a good first innings score. 

However, despite team's win, Chennai Super Kings have started to troll skipper MS Dhoni for a small fumble he did during toss of CSK vs DC IPL 2023 match. After winning toss and electing to bat first, Dhoni while speaking at toss said that Shivam Dube has missed out and Ambati Rayudu has come in his place but when team sheets came Dube and Rayudu both were in team and wicketkeeper-batsman might have made a mistake. 

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"We will bat first. We have played a few games on this wicket. re are chances of this wicket slowing down. We can't complain about this track. We try to keep it simple. We try to keep reiterating same thing. Try to accomplish your plan. Try to execute your plans. We have one change. Rayudu comes in for Dube", MS Dhoni said at toss. 

CSK subtly trolls MS Dhoni 

w CSK has posted two photos featuring MS Dhoni and Shivam Dube, however, in one photo we can see Dhoni and Dube practicing toger and in or, we can just see skipper doing batting practice. Chennai captioned post, "Thala at practice. Thala at toss." 

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Coming back to CSK vs DC IPL 2023 match, Chennai Super Kings after batting first in match posted a total of 167/8 wherein batsman was able to get a big score but almost everyone from batting lineup contributed with cameo scores and helped team reach good first innings total on a bowler-friendly Chepauk pitch. Shivam Dube and MS Dhoni played innings of 25 and 20 runs respectively and hot five gigantic sixes between m. 

Chasing target, Delhi Capitals didn't have a good start to ir innings as y lost skipper David Warner for a duck and Phil Salt who was hero in match against RCB for a score of 17. Rilee Rossouw and Manish Pandey played with a very slow strike rate and DC team never got going in match. At last, y were only able to reach a score of 140/8 and lost match by 27 runs. 

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10:30 IST, May 11th 2023