Moeen Ali mentioned he has no downside with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni under-utilizing his spin after the all-rounder helped the Chennai Super Kings win over Lucknow Super Giants within the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday.
The 35-year-old didn’t bowl towards champions Gujarat Titans, who gained the match by 5 wickets, however took 4-26 towards Lucknow as Chennai gained by 12 runs in a high-scoring encounter. Victory was achieved the place either side breached 200. ,
Dhoni used his spin assets cleverly with Moeen and Mitchell Santner sharing 5 wickets between them and conceding 47 runs of their eight mixed overs to tilt the sport in Chennai’s favour.
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After amassing the participant of the match award, the England participant mentioned, “I tried to bowl like Test cricket and spin as much as I could.”
“They’ve got big hitters so you don’t want to go out there against these guys but we had a good (bowling) partnership so it was nice to get the win.”
With all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja additionally within the squad, Chennai have a formidable spin assault and Moeen was assured that Dhoni would carry out the very best out of them.
“MS knows what he is doing. The best thing about bowling under MS is that he knows when to bowl to the players.”
He mentioned, ‘I’m not going to bowl with Jadeja there on a regular basis. I believe it’ll take partnerships and people to face up and win video games.”
England Test captain Ben Stokes, who’s nursing a knee harm and didn’t bowl towards Gujarat, bowled one over for 18 runs.
The Chennai bowlers bowled three no balls and 13 wides towards Lucknow and Dhoni mentioned they must minimize down on the additional balls.
“Or they will have to play under a new captain,” mentioned the previous India captain.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
