IPL History: 5 greatest matches between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings

#2 'Champion' Bravo comes to the party: Mumbai, 2018

Bravo absolutely manhandled the MI bowling attack (Image courtesy: IPLT20/BCCI)

After a two-year exile, fans were waiting with bated breath for the return of Chennai Super Kings to the fold. That they were up against their arch-rivals in the very first match of IPL 2018 made it even more exciting. And the two teams certainly didn't disappoint the fans.

Mumbai batted first on an unusual slow deck at Wankhede and lost Rohit Sharma and Evin Lewis early. Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan rebuilt through an excellent partnership of 78 for the 3rd wicket, and Krunal Pandya hit some lusty blows en-route a quickfire 41 off 22 balls, to take Mumbai to 165/4 at the end of 20 overs.

Chennai dug a hole for themselves by losing 4 wickets inside the first half of their innings, while also losing Kedar Jadhav to a hamstring injury. They seemed to never recover from the blows and when the 8th wicket was down in the 17th over, they still needed 48 from 21 deliveries.

A hopping Kedar Jadhav scored the winning runs for CSK (Image courtesy: IPLT20/BCCI)

However, Dwayne Bravo launched a stunning assault on the MI bowlers, hitting a barrage of sixes to send the home crowd into a frenzy. Even Jasprit Bumrah went for 3 sixes in his final over and the equation was down to 7 off 7 in no time.

But there was another twist in the tale when Bravo went for the glory shot and was dismissed for 68, leaving many to ponder whether the game was over since CSK were 9 down with Jadhav injured. However, Jadhav showed great courage and came out to bat despite his injury.

In the final over of the match, he played three dot deliveries from Mustafizur and since he was not able to run or generate any power in his shots, he went for the scoop and hit a six over fine leg on the next ball to level the scores. With all the fielders in the circle for the final 2 deliveries, Jadhav found the gap through covers for a four and culminated one of the most dramatic IPL matches of all time.