The players that Chennai Super Kings buy often perform well. Now, whatever players Chennai buys in the auction, it always discusses them with former team captain MS Dhoni. In such a situation, it is believed that every player coming to Chennai gets MS Dhoni’s seal of approval and Dhoni’s expert eye regarding the talent of the players is not hidden from anyone. In the IPL mega auction, Chennai bought one such player for just Rs 30 lakh and this player is showing his talent. We are talking about leg spinner Shreyas Gopal, who single-handedly destroyed half the team.
This brilliance of Karnataka’s experienced leg spinner Shreyas Gopal was seen in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. Karnataka faced Sikkim in the match played on Friday 29 November at Holkar Stadium, Indore. This match was already looking easy for former champion Karnataka because Sikkim is nowhere in front of it in terms of the ability of its players. Still, Karnataka had to show its dominance on the field and Shreyas Gopal did this for them.
Gopal, who has shown his leg break and googly skills many times from domestic cricket to IPL, did not disappoint this time too. Sikkim batsmen had no answer to his balls. Shreyas trapped half the Sikkim team in the trap of his leg break and bundled them out for just 82 runs. During this period, Gopal spent only 13 runs in 4 overs bowling and showed the way to the pavilion to 5 batsmen. In his spell of 24 balls, no runs were scored on 13 balls. Apart from him, Vidyadhar Patil took 3 wickets for just 10 runs in 3 overs.
This is the third time in Gopal’s T20 career, when he has taken 5 wickets in an innings. Gopal, who has played only a few matches in the last few IPL seasons, can prove to be important for Chennai this time. Gopal has taken 52 wickets in his IPL career of 52 matches. Talking about the match, this target was not difficult for Karnataka and it won by 8 wickets scoring 86 runs in just 5.4 overs. For that, Manish Pandey scored 30 runs in 13 balls and KL Srijit scored 37 runs in 13 balls.