IPL 2020 Highligths, MI vs CSK Match, Full cricket score: Faf du Plessis fifty guides Chennai to win

Ambati Rayudu is the Player of the Match for his 48-ball 71!

Rayudu: (On lockdown training) We were training, and little bit stop-start training in summer. Really eager. (Conditions) It was good. Once the dew came on, it quickened up a bit. We practised in Chennai and Dubai as well, and that really helped,

FOUR! Fa du Plessis hits the winning runs and remains unbeaten on 58 as Chennai Super Kings snap their five-match losing run against Mumbai Indians while becoming the first team to collect points in IPL 2020 with a five-wicket victory. CSK 166/5

Fifty up for Faf du Plessis, his 13th in the Indian Premier League, as the South African reaches the milestone off 42 deliveries with a single in the penultimate over. CSK 158/5

OUT! One shot too many from Curran, as he attempts to scoop the ball towards fine leg. Pattinson, running in the opposite direction from inside the circle, takes a superb catch in the end. CSK 153/5

Curran c Pattinson b Bumrah 18(6)

OUT! Another wicket for Mumbai as Krunal Pandya traps Jadeja LBW for 10 first ball of his final over, the umpire raising his finger instantly! CSK 134/4

Jadeja lbw Krunal 10(5)

OUT! Mumbai finally get the breakthrough as Rayudu departs for 71. Skies the ball after taking a couple of steps forward, and Chahar, who is running in the opposite direction, takes a fine catch off his own bowling near mid off. CSK 121/3

Rayudu c and b Chahar 71(48)

Century partnership up between Rayudu and du Plessis for the third wicket off 76 deliveries, and what a contribution this has been for the Super Kings as the pair have single-handedly made their team front-runners to collect the first points this season. CSK 106/2

FOUR! Rayudu takes a couple of steps forward to smash Bumrah down the ground for a four as he brings up his 19th IPL fifty in style, taking 33 balls to get to the milestone! CSK 88/2

Fifty partnership up between Ambati Rayudu and Faf du Plessis for the third wicket, and the pair have batted with resilience to rescue Chennai from the horrid start they got off to earlier. CSK 56/2

OUT! Pattinson strikes from the other end as Murali Vijay departs for a seven-ball 1! Just the kind of start Mumbai needed to defend the 163-run target. CSK 6/2

Vijay lbw Pattinson 1(7)

OUT! Boult strikes in the very first over of the innings, trapping Watson plumb lbw right after getting hit for a boundary by the burly Aussie! CSK 5/1

Watson lbw Boult 4(5)

After 20 overs, MI 162/9 (Bumrah 5, Chahar 2) 

Mumbai Indians finish with 162/9 on the board. They brought things amazingly well in the last four overs, drying the flow of runs and picking up wickets as well. Analysts at MI must have noted down how they have batted in the last four overs. CSK need 162 to win.

OUT! Clean bowled! Top clas delivery from Chahar and Boult has been clean bowled! Gets his second wicket. Nine wicket down are Mumbai Indians. Boult b Chahar 0(1)

OUT! Faf du Plessis is everywhere today. He takes a safe catch at long on. Pattinson tries to go big but has been caught. Ngidi gets another. Pattinson c du Plessis b Ngidi 11(8)

OUT! Pollard is gone, Ngidi with the wicket. Pollard tries to go big, attempts a pull but the ball takes the edge and goes to Dhoni who takes a safe catch.  Pollard c Dhoni b Ngidi 18(14)

OUT! Krunal is gone, Ngidi takes the first wicket. Ngidi bowls at his hip, Krunal tried to clip it, but ends up edging it to Dhoni behind the stumps. Krunal Pandya c Dhoni b Ngidi 3(3)

SIX! That is a big one. Chawla flights the ball. And Pollard smashes it over the bowler for a huge one.  

OUT! Faf, you beauty, another stunner from hin at long off. It was flat-batted from Hardik, he times his jump againt brilliantly, took the catch and balanced himself very well as he landed on his feet. Hardik is gone. Hardik Pandya c du Plessis b Jadeja 14(10)

OUT! Jadeja was under pressure but he has a wicket now. Tiwary tries to go over long on, but Faf stays still on the line and waited to pick the flight of the ball, jumped to take it just in time, tossed the ball up, goes out, comes back in and completes the catch. Top stuff. Saurabh Tiwary c du Plessis b Jadeja 42(31)  

After 12 overs, MI 105/3 (Hardik 12, Tiwary 27) 

Hardik has joined Tiwary in the middle. He has not played cricket for a long time and straight away back to back sixes to get things running. That is some comeback. 13 off the over. 100 up for MI. 

OUT! Surya has to go. CSK have their third and the little stand between Surya and Tiwary has been broke. Chahar with the wicket and Sam completed a good catch in the deep. Suryakumar Yadav c Sam Curran b Chahar 17(16)

After 6 overs, MI 51/2 (Suryakumar 1, Tiwary  3) 

Curran removes QDK. FIFTY up for Mumbai Indians. A great start has been turned into a good one by those two wickets. Saurabh Tiway has walked in after fall of QDK, left-hander replacing a left-hander. 

OUT! Another wicket for Daddy's Army as QDK goes, short ball from Sam, and bit slower as well, he pulled it but it went straight to Watson at mid-wicket. Two in two for CSK. Both MI openers back in the hut. de Kock c Watson b Sam Curran 33(20)

OUT! First wicket for CSK as Chawla strikes. He gets rid of Hitman Rohit Sharma. Kept it tight on first three balls and then Rohit lost his patience, stepped out and mistimed it to give a catch to mid off. He is gone for 12. Rohit c Sam Curran b Chawla 12(10)

MI XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Quinton de Kock(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Saurabh Tiwary, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah

CSK XI: Murali Vijay, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, Lungi Ngidi

Dhoni: Could do not a lot of physical running but hit the gym to remain fit. We have made the most of practice. Very good preparation time. I have always said it is a sport, we don't think about revenge. We think of mistakes we have committed. Try to make sure we don't repeat mistakes. Four overseas - Faf, Watson, Ngidi and Sam Curran. 

Rohit: We would have bowled first as well. Slightly better batting under the lights. Of course, before coming here, we had little camp in Mumbai. We had quality practice in Abu Dhabi. Key will be to understand conditions. We had good preparation and now we are ready to go. QDK, Pollard, Pattinson and Boult are four overseas.

TOSS News: CSK win first toss of IPL 2020 and they will bowl first. 

Michael Slater and Kevin Pietersen with the pitch report:

Slater: Of course it’s going to be pretty warm in this part of the world. Par score here is 167.

KP: It’s a wicket that I can expect at the start of a tournament. Even covering of grass here. Carpet ground, carpet here on the wicket. I expect it to be high-scoring game today. There’s a big breeze blowing towards the 77-metre boundary. There’s going to be quite a few runs today.

Take a look at MI's squad:
 

Rohit Sharma, Sherfane Rutherford, Suryakumar Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell McClenaghan, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Mohsin Khan, Prince Balwant Rai Singh, Digvijay Deshmukh, Hardik Pandya, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ishan Kishan, Quinton de Kock, Aditya Tare

Take a look at CSK's squad:

MS Dhoni (captain), Imran Tahir, Lungi Ngidi, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, N Jagadeesan, Mitchell Santner, KM Asif, Shardul Thakur, R Sai Kishore, Faf du Plessis, Monu Kumar, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran, Karn Sharma