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Chennai: Chennai Super Kings defeated defending champions Gujarat Titans and made it to the IPL final for the 10th time. But now some people are accusing MS Dhoni of dishonesty and playing with sportsmanship. Many former Indian and foreign cricketers have expressed their opinion on social media. Actually this matter is before the 16th over during the batting of Gujarat Titans. When the game was stopped for a while. Dhoni, the umpires and the Chennai players stood on the edge of the pitch and started talking. No one could understand why the game is not starting.
Actually, it was after the 15th over, when Gujarat needed 71 runs in the last 5 overs to win and had four wickets in hand. Vijay Shankar and Rashid Khan were at the crease. Dhoni had completed four overs each of his main bowlers like Deepak Chahar, Ravindra Jadeja and Mahish Tridha. Now only Tushar Deshpande and Matish Pathirana were left with Mahi. This is where the controversy started.
Pathirana, who bowled with sling action like Lasith Malinga, had three overs left. But he stayed out of the field for the last nine minutes. Both the field umpires Chris Gaffney and Anil Chowdhary did not allow Pathirana to bowl straight. According to the rules, Law 24.2.3 states that if a player is off the field for more than eight minutes, he must spend that number of minutes on the field. Will be kept away from bowling or batting till then.
Dhoni could have opened the game in the 16th over with all-rounder Moeen Ali, but waited for Matish Pathirana. The umpires and the opposing team did not raise any objection during this period. In the end, the team of Gujarat Titans could score only 157 runs. Hardik Pandya’s team got all out for the first time in IPL history.