Dream11 IPL 2020: MS Dhoni says 'plenty of areas to improve' after 5-wicket win vs Mumbai

Registering tournament's first victory, Chennai defeated arch-rivals and defending champions Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets. Despite scalping two early wickets, Mumbai failed to capitalize as Faf du Plessis and Ambati Rayu anchored Chennai innings. Winning skipper MS Dhoni congratulated duo for ir partnership terming Rayu's innings as 'brilliant.' Rayu was also awarded Player of Match for his innings of 72 runs off 48 deliveries. 

At post-match presentation, MS Dhoni said, "We may practice eugh but when you go on field you need to assess conditions and give it your best. It took us time for bowlers to find right length on this pitch. Plenty of positives but still plenty of areas for us to improve. In second half, re is a bit of movement till dew sets in. If you don't lose wickets, you have upper hand. se are learnings."

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"One thing we haven't done is giving a chance to Jeja and Curran to come up order and express mselves which is what we did today. It was a psychological thing of saying that okay, we have batsmen down, so we'll send one or two of m up to hit a few. It is an amazing job done by Dream11 IPL 2020, especially ones behind scenes."

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Speaking of squ's first outing, skipper Rohit Sharma remarked that squ was 10-15 runs short against Chennai. Sharma highlighted that ne of Mumbai batsmen got going after getting a start. "ne of our batsmen carried on for us, like du Plessis and Rayudu did for CSK. I think we were 85 in first 10 overs. Credit to CSK bowlers, y bowled well at end to pull back things. Something for us to learn. Still early days. We all want to start really well, it's crucial in this tournament where momentum is important. Few things for us to learn from this game, we did make few mistakes," Mumbai skipper said. 

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Sam Curran, who played a small but important cameo towards end, felt a bit different with crowds being absent from Dream11 IPL 2020. Speaking about him coming on to bat before Dhoni, Curran said, " That was a good thing. I was very surprised that I went in. He (Dhoni) is a genius and thought something (about sending me before himself). We targeted that over (18th) and sometimes it comes off and sometimes it doesn't." 

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