CSK vs LSG IPL 2023 Highlights: Chennai beat Lucknow by 12 runs

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK beat LGS by 12 runs

Mark Wood smashes a four and a six off the last two balls of the match. That takes LSG over the 200-run mark but it is not enough. CSK have won their first match back at the Chepauk and they have won it by just 12 runs despite scoring 217. More food for thought when you consider the fact that MS Dhoni had hit two back to back sixes before being dismissed in the last over. Three balls faced, two of which were sixes, and his team won by 12 runs. What a return this is for CSK and Dhoni to their beloved Chepauk Stadium and home fans. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Dhoni calls it and takes it!

Badoni goes for the big shot, he had to of course, he skies it high into the Chennai night sky. Dhoni calls it, settles under it as it swirls and spits fire, and takes the catch like its nothing. Fantastic, fantastic comeback from Tushar Deshpande after that first over.

IPL 2023 Live: Just 9 runs off the 19th, LSG need 28 off the last over

 Hangargekar has done his job here, as have the fielders at the boundary. At least twice it looked like the ball might cross the boundary, most prominently off the fourth and the sixth but the fielders ensured they don't.

IPL 2023 Live score: LSG need 44 to win off last three

18 runs off the 17th over and LSG are on 174/6 off 17th. A tall, tall order for them but not impossible. Badoni is on strike on 11 off eight, Gowtham at the other end with 14 off 5.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: DROPPED!

Chahar sticks to the plan, get the wide yorker right, Gowtham tries to smash this over midwicket but splices it over short third man. That was ballooned into the air, Shivam Dube was underneath it and he messed it up.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: SIX!

Chahar finally gets it right but it is too straight and Gowtham flicks over square leg for six. 9 runs off the first three balls of the 17th!

IPL 2023 Live: Hat-trick of wides!

Deepak Chahar bowling the 17th and third ball is turning into a problem for him. All of them attempted wide yorkers.

IPL 2023 Live score: OUT! Pooran goes and it's Deshpande who strikes!

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: LSG 150/5 in 15 overs

Need 68 from 30 balls. You can cut the tension with a knife here. Pooran is looking good on 31 off 15 and the hugely talented Ayush Badoni is at the other end.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: SIX! SWITCH HIT FROM POORAN!

Wow, Pooran had smashed a lovely lofted extra cover drive for six off the third ball of this over and that looked like the best shot of the day. Then he upstages that after dot ball with a switch hit that is smashed to the third tier of the stands. Exceptional!

IPL 2023 Live: LSG 136/5 in 14 overs

Stoinis cleaned up by Moeen who has now picked up his fourth. What a hand the all-rounder has played today with the bat and now with ball. 

IPL 2023 Live score: LSG 125/4 in 12 overs

Stoinis and Pooran in the middle. Both are dangerous players and CSK will be desperate to get at least one of these two back in the hut in the next over. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: SIX AND FOUR! Nicholas Pooran is out there

Young Hangargekar, who had a fantastic debut, comes in to bowl his first over of the match. The third ball is smashed into the stands by Pooran. Then next is laced behind point.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: OUT! Krunal goes

IPL 2023 Live: 9 overs gone, LSG 96/3 

Marcus Stoinis, the chief candidate to get the drop to fit in QDK and Mayers from the next match, is in the middle with Krunal Pandya. LSG's score is good on the runs front but it is the amount the batting that they have left which will be the worry. Unlike CSK, they don't have MS Dhoni walking in at eight or a batter of the calibre of Mitchell Santner at nine.

IPL 2023 Live score: GONE! NOW RAHUL FALLS!

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: GONE! Good catch from Stokes

Hooda c Stokes b Santner 2 (6), LSG 82/2 in 7 overs

CSK vs LSG Live Score: OUT! Mayers' blinder ends

IPL 2023 Live: Single and four overthrows! Fifty for Kyle Mayers!

This powerplay has been an unmitigated disaster for CSK. Mayers just pushes a back of a length delivery on off stump to extra cover, a terrible throw from the fielder and that just runs to the boundary. Half century in just 21 balls for Kyle Mayers. LSG 78/0 in 5.1 overs. 

IPL 2023 Live score: Pacers are all struggling

Deepak Chahar tries a slow bouncer that goes well wide of off. Dew is wreaking havoc for these pacers.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: 18 runs off the epic fourth over

Deshpande has effectively run in for two overs to finish this one over. 11 balls effectively and the last one, if you can believe it, is a dot ball! LSG are going quite well here, Mayers on 39 off 17, Rahul on 11 off 9.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: WIDE AGAIN AND THEN SIX!

Effectively 10th ball of the over, legally just the fifth delivery and that is smashed over long-on for six. 18 runs off the over so far.

IPL 2023 Live: FOUR!

When that fourth deliver comes finally, it is a knee high full toss and Mayers biffs it over mid-off to the rope.

IPL 2023 Live score: No-ball, wide, no-ball, wide, fourth ball of the third taking forever!

Impact player Tushar Pande bowling the fourth over and the fourth ball has turned into a nightmare for him. He oversteps, then goes for a wide yorker that is too wide, then oversteps again, then goes wide again.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! Mayers keeps going

Chahar with a length ball outside off, Mayers punches it between cover and extra cover. Perfect placement so didn't matter that it had been at catchable height.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: 18 runs off the second over

LSG 25/0 after 2 overs. Not a great first ever CSK over for Ben Stokes, Kyle Mayers took a single off the last ball to retain strike.

IPL 2023 Live: SIX! Mayers taking a liking to Stokes

The fifth ball of the over is biffed over the bowler's head and over the ropes. That's 17 runs off the over with one ball to go.

IPL 2023 Live score: BACK TO BACK FOURS!

Kyle Mayers laying into Ben Stokes. The first one is off the third and it is a wonderful cut shot over point to the rope. The next one is hit to the mid-off rope.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK 9/0 after 1 over and BEN STOKES IS BOWLING!

Rahul faced five of the six balls in that over, sent the fourth ball to the boundary and ran a single off the fifth. And now, as he had said earlier, Ben Stokes has the ball in his hands.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: The players return!

Kyle Mayers and KL Rahul are opening for LSG, Deepak Chahar bowling the first over. The Impact Players are on, Ayus Badoni had replaced Avesh Khan for LSG in the last over the CSK innings. Now CSK bring on Tushar Deshpande for Ambati Rayudu.

IPL 2023 Live: Devon Conway talks

It was a great start tonight, the way Rutu played- that first six was pretty special. Took the pressure off me. He is sneakily strong, holds his shape really well and uses his hands well. The slower ball into the wicket might be a good option. Pretty difficult to hit due to the unpredictability of speeds. With the spinners, some skid on so if we hit the right lengths batting can be difficult. Very special feeling when I got here earlier. The crowd was pretty loud, really great atmosphere and watching MS go out there for the last over was pretty special. The message has been to just go out there and enjoy ourselves.

IPL 2023 Live score: Chennai Super Kings 217/7 in 20 overs

Well that innings was a bit of a festival towards the end. There was a bit of a down time after those two openers fell with Mavi and Moeen trying to find their way. But they all then seemed to remember that they have a truckload of batting talent to come all the way to No.8 which then allowed them to just go for big shots and succeed of perish. Stokes yet to find his feet but CSK fans wouldn't mind, they saw Dhoni hit two sixes in the three balls he faced and that probably made their day already. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: OUT! Thala's cameo ends

Two sixes and out. A finisher's innings if there ever was one. Dhoni is caught in the deep by Bishnoi, Wood has taken three as well.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: MAKE THAT BACK TO BACK SIXES FROM MSD!

Dhoni pulls and it has gone to the upper deck over square leg. He has raced past 5000 IPL runs. He has delivered already and the Chepauk is just noise at the moment. It is not a stadium, it's just the physical embodiment of the word "noise".

IPL 2023 Live: SIX! DHONI FIRST BALL

Well, then. Somehting for the crowd to go even more crazy. Dhoni slashes it over wide deep third man.

IPL 2023 Live score: GONE! Jadeja falls

Wood bowling the last over, Jadeja pulls and puts it straight down the throat of midwicket. But the CSK fans go berzerk at that wicket because this means that they will get to see MS Dhoni batting at last.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! CSK cross 200

There is that psychological hurdle established now for Lucknow to overcome. A cheeky one from Rayudu, he uppercuts it and just about puts it past Avesh Khan.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: SIX! What a shot from Rayudu

Wow, Rayudu steps down the pitch to Mark Wood for the fourth ball of the over and smashes him right back over his head. CSK are into the 190s.

IPL 2023 Live score: SIX! Rayudu welcomes Wood back

Back of a length from Wood, Rayudu just steps accross and pulls it with perfect timing over the backward square boundary.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: GONE! And Stokes falls

CSK vs LSG Live Score: FOUR! Stokes at last!

Avesh sends it in the slot, Stokes clears his front leg and smashes it to the long on boundary.

IPL 2023 Live: CSK 170/4 in 16 overs

IPL 2023 Live score: OUT! That's it for Moeen

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! CSK 164/3 in 15 overs

Hat-trick of fours to end the over then. Avesh has conceded 31 runs in 2 overs. That last one was a work of art. Wide yorker from Avesh, Moeen guides it delicately to the boundary behind him.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: BACK TO BACK FOURS!

Avesh Khan is being belted around, Moeen Ali hits it to cover sweeper. Then the fifth ball of the 15th is sent in slow at a length, it si sent to the wide long-off rope.

IPL 2023 Live: OUT! Dube falls

IPL 2023 Live score: BACK TO BACK SIXES! DUBE THE BIG-HITTER!

CSK have raced to 150 in 13.3 overs. He smashes it over wide long-on and then another flat over long-on.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: SIX AND FOUR! Dube gets them going at last

Dube gets an overpitched delivery from Thakur and he smashes it flat over the bowler's head. Then Thakur goes back of a length outside off and pulls over wide long-on.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: The brakes have been applied!

Well the commentators are saying that bringing Shivam Dube in at No.3 ahead of Moeen Ali or Ben Stokes may have been a bad move. It was seen as a bad move when Dube was brought later on ahead of Jadeja in the previous. Does make you wonder where it is that Dube can bat. He is right now struggling on 5 off 9 balls and CSK have not hit a boundary for about 9 balls now.

 IPL 2023 Live: OUT! Brilliant catch from Krunal Pandya!

IPL 2023 Live score: OUT! Great catch from Wood, Gaikwad falls

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: FOUR! Gaikwad is in lucky ally

Yash Thakur bowling the ninth, digs it in short and Gaikwad comes down the track to pull, ends up getting a top edge that just about lands beyond the short leg fielder.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: 6, 0, 6, Chennai cross 100

CSK are 101/0 in 8 overs. Dew or no, if this keeps going then LSG are going to be quite far away from being within any chance of winning this game. It is Conway this time and he has now reached 39 in 23.

IPL 2023 Live: Fifty for Gaikwad!

It has come in 25 balls. His last half century had come in 29 balls. What a start he has made to the season. Remember that Gaikwad had quite a sensational season in domestic cricket as well in all formats. CSK 87/0 in 7.1 overs.

 IPL 2023 Live score: CSK smash 79 runs in the powerplay

Gaikwad on 46 off 20 balls, Conway on 23 off 16 balls. Gaikwad has smacked four sixes and two fours, Conway on four fours and no sixes thus far. This is CSK's highest ever powerplay score at the Chepauk, the previous best was 75.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: SIX! Now Gaikwad smashes Wood

Gaikwad has raced to 46 off 19 balls here. Length ball on the hips from Wood, Gaikwad perfectly times the flick and it flies over the rop over backward square leg.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Four, four byes and another four to start off for Mark Wood

Wow, CSK are off to a flier allright and this time its Mark Wood, who had DC on their knees, who is being belted around. Conway gets a boundary off the first ball, the second is banged in short and flies behind the wicketkeeper. Then Conway pulls for another boundary.

. IPL 2023 Live: SIX! Gaikwad gets going

Gaikwad has launched the fourth ball of that over above long off. Gowtham went too full and wide and Gaikwad punished him for that.

IPL 2023 Live score: SIX! Kohli-esque from Gaikwad!

Second ball of the fourth bowled by K Gowtham. He backs away, makes some room and sends it over the bowler's head, almost exactly like how Kohli played that famous shot against Haris Rauf in India's thriller against Pakistan in the 2022 T20 World Cup. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK 33/0 after 3 overs

Krunal Pandya comes in to bowl the fourth. It is almost 8pm and we are only starting with the fourth over. While the delay in the start is largely to blame, that Avesh Khan over and the needless review from LSG is also guilty of this. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Now back to back fours!

What a terrible over this has been so far from Avesh. He goes good length with a lot of width and Conway takes that gift, then he goes around the wicket and full and Conway brings out the cover drive. 16 runs off the first four balls with the batters only hitting two fours in that. 

IPL 2023 Live: More bizarre scenes 

And umpire Bruce Oxenford seems to have taken it personally as well because he calls for a front foot no ball against Avesh Khan off the next delivery, something on field umpires don't do anymore. Replays show that his front foot wasn't over the line and the third umpire asks Oxenford to reverse that. 

IPL 2023 Live score: FIVE WIDES!

Very sloppy from Nicholas Pooran behind the stumps and the ball runs behind to the boundary. On top of that, Rahul goes and reviews that wide call and that leads to an almighty delay which basically showed that the umpire was right with a basic call. Utterly bizarre from LSG to waste a review on that. Doesn't show too much respect to the umpire. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK 6/0 in 1 over

A wide off the second ball and five singles. Gaikwad has scored three and Conway on two. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Dog on the field!

Well a canine has stollen all these cricketing superstars' thunder. The stadium officials try some innovative tactics at the start, including walking around the dog in a triangular formation and trying to usher it out of the ground. But the dog runs away anyhow and then its just pandemonium. About 2-3 minutes are gone as the fans cheer and the players laugh with the dog proving to be as slippery as, well, a slippery dog. In the end, they somehow get the four-legged pitch intruder off the field and Mayers steams in. 

IPL 2023 Live: The players walk out!

LSG are out there with those jerseys that look like a more garrish version of one of the dark blue jersies India wore while Dhoni was captain. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway walk out for CSK. Kyle Mayers likely to bowl the first over.  

IPL 2023 Live score: The MA Chidambaram Stadium

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Stokes to bowl?

Mike Hussey had said that the England Test captain may not bowl in the first few games. Stokes did warm up with the ball before the last match but didn't bowl then. He was doing the same today as well and did given an indication that he might bowl. "Everything is coming on nicely. I feel like I've worked really hard to get to the place where I am at the moment with my knee. I think I might be able to turn the arm over tonight," he said.  

CSK vs LSG Live Score: CSK full squad

Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Shivam Dube, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, RS Hangargekar

IPL 2023 Live: LSG Full squad

KL Rahul(c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran(w), Krishnappa Gowtham, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Avesh Khan

IPL 2023 Live score: What MS Dhoni said (somehow above the noise of the CSK fans) 

Does mean a lot to be back here. IPL started in 2008 but we've not played a lot of cricket here. Only about 5-6 seasons we've been here. This is the first time the full stadium will be operational, a few stands were empty earlier. Really glad that we get to play all our home games here at Chepauk, means a lot. Same squad for this game. Need to keep assessing our situation and keep revisiting our targets, keep a realistic goal in mind and take it from there.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: KL Rahul's thoughts

“We'll bowl first. We want to know what we are chasing. It was a really good performance against DC, all parts of the game we did well. We need to turn up again today and better those performances. Jaydev Unadkat misses out, Yash Thakur comes in.”

CSK vs LSG Live Score: CHEPAUK SCREAMS FOR DHONI!

The roar that the fans let out when it was Dhoni's turn to talk is something that could have been heard all over the state of Tamil Nadu it seems. 

IPL 2023 Live: TOSS ALERT!

Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss, KL Rahul has said that that they will field. 

 IPL 2023 Live score: Pitch report

“Square boundaries - 68m on one side, 61m on the other side, downtown - 75m,” says Danny Morrison. "The batters will look to scoop and dab. It's got a white sheen and it's got the grass clippings rolled in. Average first innings score is 150, winning score will be around 165-167. Chasing here is challenging, but it's a night game. Will the dew be a bit of a factor? Fingers crossed that it's not too outrageous. Even though it's 'spin to win', if a batter gets in and smashes it to the small sides, then look out, because the bowlers here at Chepauk can absolutely disappear."

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Chepauk in international cricket

The MA Chidambaram Stadium has been the home of cricket in Tamil Nadu and the Madras Presidency in the pre-Independence era as well. One of the iconic venues of world cricket, the stadium has surprisingly hosted just two T20Is. The first was against New Zealand in 2012, which the Kiwis won by just a run. Then India faced the West Indies in November 2018 and they won this by six wickets. It is pretty meaningless to look at individual stats from such a short set but in ODIs, it is 'Thala' Dhoni who is the highest scorer with 401 runs in six matches. In Tests, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar is the highest scorer with 1018 runs in 21 innings. Sachin Tendulkar comes a close second with 970 runs in 16 innings.

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Less than half an hour to go for the toss

About 20 mins to go for all the blabbering to stop and the cricket to begin. A lot of first in this week for LSG. They just played in their home city for the first time, now they are set to face one of the storied teams in the history of the league at their home for the first time. 

IPL 2023 Live: Chance for Rahul to shine?

The Test and T20 formats have not been kind to KL Rahul off late. He fell after scoring a rather drab 8 off 12 balls in LSG's first match. However, he has a good record against Deepak Chahar, CSK's strike bowler. Rahul has smashed 120 in the 79 balls faced against Chahar without being dismissed. Rahul also averages 60.17 against CSK since 2019, with four half-centuries in seven innings.

IPL 2023 Live score: QDK still unlikely for LSG

It was only on Sunday evening that De Kock and South Africa beat the Netherlands by 146 runs and so it is highly unlikely that he will play today. But hey, LSG won't complain. In fact, if anything, it helps them do away with a selection headache now as there is absolutely no way they can drop Kyle Mayers, or even think about using him anywhere else but as an opener really, considering what he did in their first match. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Wood at CSK

Mark Wood played one season (well, one match) for CSK in 2018. In the only game he played, he took no wickets and conceded 49 runs. He started off pretty well in the match, giving just three runs in his first over and making Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav duck and weave in it. However, Krunal and Hardik Pandya, the former in particular, smashed him to all parts of the ground in his later overs and he ended being the most expensive bowler for his side. Wood did not play again and returned to England halfway through the season when it became clear to him that he is not going to play a further role in the season. He didn't have a place in the CSK squad, now he is back as their biggest threat. Full circle and all that. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Wood on his dream start

“Last time I played for CSK, but it didn't go quite well. But I wanted to make an impact in this game. The landing area was a bit of an issue, but I am pleased with my rhythm as I managed to take wickets.”

IPL 2023 Live: Mark Wood fire 

LSG's 178/7 on a tricky pitch in Lucknow was a daunting total in their first match of the season against Delhi Capitals but the away side were doing pretty well early on in the chase. David Warner and Prithvi Shaw were going at above 10 an over and were very much on track until Mark Wood bowled his first over. He brought pace and fury and sent back to LSG batters off consecutive deliveries. The next ball he sent in was a no ball and Sarfaraz Khan had nicked the free hit delivery to the keeper which means that if this was a Test match, Wood had completed his hat-trick. He eventually got his third; and fourth; and fifth! Thus completing his LSG debut with figures of 5/14. CSK have a real task at hand facing him today. 

IPL 2023 Live score: Gaikwad on India selection

"I think India team selection doesn't come into my mind at this moment because we have 15 games left at the moment. I am really thinking about how I can contribute to CSK winning each and every game and getting close to qualification, getting closer to a title. It's better to stay in the present and contribute to the team."

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: MSD on impact players

“It’s a luxury to have (Impact Player). It becomes slightly easy to take the decision because you can use it at any time,” Dhoni had said. But the World Cup-winning captain feels the rule will reduce the role of an all-rounder in the team. “Influence of all-rounder has become slightly less because of the rule,”

IPL 2023 Live: MS Dhoni at Chepauk

Since 2019, Dhoni is yet to be dismissed when he has come out to bat at this venue. He scored 193 runs in 4 innings at a strike rate of 161 at the venue in 2019. His strike rate of 161 in 2019 at Chepauk was the best for him in all his IPL seasons at the venue. He is the only batsman to have smashed more than 50 IPL sixes at the venue (64). Dhoni has scored 1363 runs at the Chepauk, which is the most for him at a single venue while playing in the IPL.

IPL 2023 Live score: LSG full squad

KL Rahul(c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran(w), Ayush Badoni, Mark Wood, Jaydev Unadkat, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Prerak Mankad, Swapnil Singh, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur, Daniel Sams, Romario Shepherd, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Karan Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Amit Mishra, Manan Vohra

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK full squad

Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Shivam Dube, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, RS Hangargekar, Tushar Deshpande, Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane, Nishant Sindhu, Dwaine Pretorius, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Akash Singh, Bhagath Varma

CSK vs LSG Live Score: CSK's home record 

CSK have won 40, lost 15 and tied 1 (lost in super over) of the 56 games they have played at the venue. This is the third highest in terms of wins by an IPL franchise at home after KKR who have won 45 out of the 71 games they have played at the Eden Gardens and MI who have won 41 out of the 68 they have played at the Wankhede Stadium.

IPL 2023 Live: The Kane Williamson incident

Williamson injured his knee while pulling off a truly extraordinary fielding effort yesterday at the boundary line for Gujarat Titans against Chennai Super Kings to stop a six. He had to be helped off the field and is reportedly ruled out of the IPL. While that in itself is sad, let us hope that he recovers well over the course of this tournament and this does not become the start of another injury saga for the former New Zealand captain. Williamson had recently gone on a century-scoring spree, even leading the Kiwis to a thrilling last ball win against Sri Lanka with an unbeaten ton which confirmed a WTC final spot for India. It is in Test cricket that players like Williamson become a true joy to watch and let's hope that this knee issue doesn't hinder his flow of runs any more.

IPL 2023 Live score: CSK back in their den

The last match CSK played at the Chepauk Stadium was a First Qualifier in the 2019 season against Mumbai Indians. They lost that match by six wickets, largely due to a blinder of an innings played by Suryakumar Yadav. He smashed an unbeaten 71 off 54 balls. They would face MI again in the final and would lose that match as well, albeit by just one run despite opener Shane Watson smashing 80 off 59 balls chasing 150.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Ruturaj Gaikwad looking good

Gaikwad had a real off season last year, especially compared to what he did the season before that. But he has got off to a bang this year allright. He scored 92 off 50 balls in the first match of the season against Gujarat Titans, hitting nine sixes and four fours. It was the kind of innings that made people think just how is it that he has not become one of the frontrunners for the opening spot in the Indian team. 

CSK vs LSG Live Score: Kyle Mayers takes off

Two factors contributed to Kyle Mayers scoring 73 off 38 balls in his debut for LSG. The first, of course, was his sheer power and audacity, hitting them if they are in his range regardless of where the fielder is. The other, was the fact that Delhi Capitals were going having a serious butter-finger crisis while he was struggling to get going. He was saved by what surely will go down as the drop of the season by Khaleel Ahmed while he was 14 off 16 at the time and after that, he painted the town red. CSK were tight in the field in their last match despite losing it and so chances of Mayers getting a let off like that doesn't seem high. And yet, CSK will know how important it is to get him out.

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: CSK's false start

CSK went down to a clinical Gujarat Titans in their first match of the season. Apart from Ruturaj Gaikwad, none of their other batters really got a significant but it is after the 15th over of their innings that things really started going awry for them. Gaikwad lost his breakneck meomentum with a couple of silent overs while batting partner Shivam Mavi never got going. It was captain Dhoni who pushed them close to 180 with a couple of big hits but GT were just clinical in their chase. Shubman Gill led the early assault with a half century and Rashid Khan and Rahul Tewatia then did the perfect finishing act.  

 Mark Wood on his start

Mark Wood was in hot form in LSG's opener vs DC and bagged five wickets. Speaking after the match, he said, "Last time I played for CSK, but it didn't go quite well. But I wanted to make an impact in this game. The landing area was a bit of an issue, but I am pleased with my rhythm as I managed to take wickets."

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: 'Really thinking about...', says Gaikwad

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Squads

CSK vs LSG Live Score IPL 2023: Hello and good afternoon everyone!

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