IPL 2023: England's Moeen Ali takes 4-26 as Chennai Super Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants

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England Test skipper  Ben Stokes (right) celebrates taking a drawback  with Chennai Super Kings team-matesEngland Test skipper Ben Stokes (right) took 2 catches and bowled 1 implicit for CSK
Chennai Super Kings 217-7 (20 overs): Gaikwad 57 (31); Bishnoi 3-28
Lucknow Super Giants 205-7 (20 overs): Mayers 53 (22); Moeen 4-26
Chennai Super Kings won by 12 runs
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England all-rounder Moeen Ali took 4-26 arsenic Chennai Super Kings bushed Lucknow Super Giants by 12 runs successful the Indian Premier League.

Chasing 218, Lucknow raced to 79 successful conscionable 5.3 overs with Kyle Mayers hitting a 22-ball 53, earlier Moeen removed him and chap opener KL Rahul for 20.

Moeen past got Krunal Pandya and Marcus Stoinis, with Lucknow finishing 205-7.

Chennai made 217-7, with Ruturaj Gaikwad making 57 and England seamer Mark Wood taking 3-49.

England Test skipper Ben Stokes amazingly bowled 1 implicit for Chennai.

The all-rounder's bowling was expected to beryllium constricted during the contention aft helium had an injection successful his troublesome near knee. He made it done his wicketless implicit unscathed - though conceded 18 runs.

Stokes, who was sold to Chennai for astir £1.6m, made conscionable 8 with the bat, his 2nd successive single-figure people aft Chennai mislaid their opening crippled to defending champions Gujarat Titans.

But Chennai's 217 was acceptable up by an explosive opening basal of 110 successful 9.1 overs betwixt Gaikwad and New Zealand's Devon Conway, who made 47.

Ambati Rayudu added 27 not retired from 14 balls to propel Chennai past 200, with erstwhile India skipper MS Dhoni's consecutive sixes successful the last implicit drafting the loudest cheers from his location crowd.

Leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi starred for Lucknow with 3-28, portion Wood added to his wicket tally aft taking 5-14 successful Lucknow's opening win, but conceded much than 12 runs an over.

Lucknow were connected apical of the required run-rate successful the opening powerplay, capitalising connected escaped bowling and abbreviated boundaries, but slipped from 79-0 to 82-3 arsenic Deepak Hooda and Rahul fell successful the abstraction of 3 balls.

West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran struck an entertaining 32 from 18 balls, including 3 sixes, but the economical rotation of Moeen and Mitchell Santner, who claimed 1-21, restricted the travel of runs efficaciously successful the mediate overs.

Lucknow volition beryllium looking to bounce backmost against Sunrisers Hyderabad connected Friday, portion Chennai instrumentality connected Mumbai Indians the pursuing day.

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