For the first time in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL), not a single Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batter could touch or cross the 400 runs-mark during a single season. The MS Dhoni-led side got this unwanted record attached to their name after their final fixture of the IPL 2022 against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Brabourne Stadium on Friday (May 21).
CSK faced defeat in their clash against RR by five-wicket. Chennai ended their season with a disappointing performance against RR as they failed to qualify for playoffs, with only four wins in their 14 matches.
CSK’s Ruturaj Gaikwad was the batter with most runs (368) for franchise in the IPL 2022, he was also the orange cap winner of the IPL 2021. After a horrible first half of the season, the batter managed to get some great scores in the second half. In 14 games, he has scored 368 runs at an average of 26.29. Three fifties have come out of his willow, with the best individual score of 99.
Gaikwad is followed by Shivam Dube (289), Ambati Rayadu (274), Devon Conway (252) and Moeen Ali (244).
For the first time in history, none of the CSK batters managed to cross 400 runs in an IPL season.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) May 21, 2022
Chennai Super Kings finished their IPL 2022 season with a disappointing 5-wicket loss against the Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan Royals. CSK will finish at the ninth position in the IPL 2022 standings with six points.
400+ runs for CSK
2008 – Raina/Dhoni
2009 – Raina/Hayden
2010 – Raina/Vijay
2011 – Raina/Vijay/Hussey
2012 – Raina
2013 – Raina/Dhoni/Hussey
2014 – Raina/Smith/McCullum
2015 – McCullum
2018 – Raina/Dhoni/Watson/Rayudu
2019 – Dhoni
2020 – Faf
2021 – Faf/Ruturaj
2022 – No One*#CSK— MD MUSLIM KHAN (@MdMuslimKhan2) May 20, 2022
In match no. 68 of the Indian Premier League 2022, R Ashwin was on song with his bat, ending CSK’s campaign with a defeat. He smashed 40 in just 23 balls as Rajasthan Royals successfully chased CSK’s 151 target. CSK had blasted 75/1 in the powerplay as Moeen Ali was on fire with the bat smashing IPL’s second fastest half-century in just 19 balls and finishing at 93 (57).
With ANI inputs
