From sprinting between overs to go to the other side to getting the field set quickly, Dhoni did it all to save Gaikwad.

Chennai: Given all his experience of playing the Indian Premier League, MS Dhoni knows it all. Dhoni could sense on Tuesday that CSK were a little behind the over rate and realising it, he quickly started moving things quickly. From sprinting between overs to go to the other side to getting the field set quickly, Dhoni did it all to save Gaikwad. According to the rules, if the franchise doesn’t complete the overs in the allotted time in three games, the skipper is suspended for a match.

But despite all of this, CSK ended up losing the match by six wickets as Marcus Stoinis pulled off a heist.

“Tough pill to swallow, but good game of cricket. LSG played really well in the back end. We had the game in control till 13-14 overs, but Stoinis played a great innings. (On dew) It played a part, there was a huge amount of dew and it took our spinners out of the game. We could have otherwise controlled the game better and taken it deeper. But these are parts of the game, can’t control it,” Gaikwad said at the post-match presentation.