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Virender Sehwag impressed with Rajvardhan Hangargekar
The 16th season of the Indian Premier League got off to a great start on March 31 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The match between the Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings was the first game of the season. The defending champions had a great start to their season by beating CSK by five wickets. After being put in to bat first, Chennai scored 178/7 in the 20 overs they were given, thanks to Ruturaj Gaikwad’s great 92-run knock.
In their reply, Gujarat’s batters were unable to be stopped, and they were able to reach the target in 19.2 overs. When Virender Sehwag looked at how CSK bowled, he thought that captain MS Dhoni could have used more than five bowling options.
Ambati Rayudu was replaced by Tushar Deshpande, whom CSK called a “impact player,” during the second inning. The seamer didn’t have a good day because he let 51 runs get past him in 3.2 overs and only took one wicket. Sehwag said that Dhoni could have stopped the damage by using off-spinner Moeen Ali instead of giving the ball back to Deshpande.
“If Dhoni had used an over from Moeen Ali in the middle, he might not have needed to go to Tushar Deshpande, who was very expensive. “You don’t see MS Dhoni make mistakes like this very often, but that’s where you could use the risk-and-reward approach of using an off-spinner when right-handers are batting,” said Sehwag on Cricbuzz.
While Deshpande leaked runs, CSK had the 20-year-old seamer Rajvardhan Hangargekar who impressed everyone on his IPL debut. After warming the bench in 2022, Hangargekar finally got his first chance in the T20 extravaganza and ended up picking 3/36 in four overs. He picked up the wickets of Wriddhiman Saha, Sai Sudharsan and Vijay Shankar in his spell and kept CSK in the game all throughout.
Virender Sehwag said that Hangargekar should focus on taking wickets and not worry about his economy when he talked about how well Hangargekar did in his first game.
“A new player will always need time to get used to the team, and if I were the captain, I would be pretty happy because I always told my bowlers that even if they gave up 40 runs in four overs, they should still get two or three wickets, which is exactly what Hangargekar did, said the former India opener.
Ravindra Jadeja got 1 for 28 in four overs, and Mitchell Santner got 0 for 32 at the end of his four-over spell for CSK. But a spell from Deshpande that cost a lot of money cost them the game.
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