CSK vs LSG IPL 2023 Highlights: Chennai mark return to Chepauk with a win, beat Lucknow by 12 runs

Mark Wood smashes a four and a six off the last two balls of the match. That takes LSG over the 200-run mark but it is not enough. CSK have won their first match back at the Chepauk and they have won it by just 12 runs despite scoring 217. More food for thought when you consider the fact that MS Dhoni had hit two back to back sixes before being dismissed in the last over. Three balls faced, two of which were sixes, and his team won by 12 runs. What a return this is for CSK and Dhoni to their beloved Chepauk Stadium and home fans. 

Badoni goes for the big shot, he had to of course, he skies it high into the Chennai night sky. Dhoni calls it, settles under it as it swirls and spits fire, and takes the catch like its nothing. Fantastic, fantastic comeback from Tushar Deshpande after that first over.

 Hangargekar has done his job here, as have the fielders at the boundary. At least twice it looked like the ball might cross the boundary, most prominently off the fourth and the sixth but the fielders ensured they don't.

18 runs off the 17th over and LSG are on 174/6 off 17th. A tall, tall order for them but not impossible. Badoni is on strike on 11 off eight, Gowtham at the other end with 14 off 5.

Chahar sticks to the plan, get the wide yorker right, Gowtham tries to smash this over midwicket but splices it over short third man. That was ballooned into the air, Shivam Dube was underneath it and he messed it up.

Chahar finally gets it right but it is too straight and Gowtham flicks over square leg for six. 9 runs off the first three balls of the 17th!

Deepak Chahar bowling the 17th and third ball is turning into a problem for him. All of them attempted wide yorkers.

Well that might be the match but we have said that once before haven't we. Wide yorker from Deshpande, who had that horror over earlier, and Pooran goes after it. Stokes is at the boundary, he misjudges and runs forward at first, then corrects himself and goes back and still completes the catch despite the error.

Pooran c Stokes b Deshpande 32 (18), LSG 156/6, need 62 off 24.

Need 68 from 30 balls. You can cut the tension with a knife here. Pooran is looking good on 31 off 15 and the hugely talented Ayush Badoni is at the other end.

Wow, Pooran had smashed a lovely lofted extra cover drive for six off the third ball of this over and that looked like the best shot of the day. Then he upstages that after dot ball with a switch hit that is smashed to the third tier of the stands. Exceptional!

Stoinis cleaned up by Moeen who has now picked up his fourth. What a hand the all-rounder has played today with the bat and now with ball. 

Stoinis and Pooran in the middle. Both are dangerous players and CSK will be desperate to get at least one of these two back in the hut in the next over. 

Young Hangargekar, who had a fantastic debut, comes in to bowl his first over of the match. The third ball is smashed into the stands by Pooran. Then next is laced behind point.

Fullish on off from Moeen for the last ball of the 10th, Krunal lofts a cross-batted shot and picks out Jadeja at the ropes.

Pandya c Jadeja b Ali 9 (9), LSG 105/4 in 10 overs

Marcus Stoinis, the chief candidate to get the drop to fit in QDK and Mayers from the next match, is in the middle with Krunal Pandya. LSG's score is good on the runs front but it is the amount the batting that they have left which will be the worry. Unlike CSK, they don't have MS Dhoni walking in at eight or a batter of the calibre of Mitchell Santner at nine.

Rahul with a slog sweep towards wide midwicket. Gaikwad takes a few steps to his left and takes this a few yards inside the ropes. Moeen has taken both the openers. The target is so big that LSG may have lost this game already.

Rahul c Gaikwad b Ali 20 (18), LSG 82/3 in 7.2 overs

Hooda c Stokes b Santner 2 (6), LSG 82/2 in 7 overs

Moeen gets the big wicket. Mayers sweeps it and finds deep midwicket. The Chepauk crowd finds its voice again.

Mayers c Conway b Ali 53 (22), CSK 79/1 in 5.3 overs

This powerplay has been an unmitigated disaster for CSK. Mayers just pushes a back of a length delivery on off stump to extra cover, a terrible throw from the fielder and that just runs to the boundary. Half century in just 21 balls for Kyle Mayers. LSG 78/0 in 5.1 overs. 

Deepak Chahar tries a slow bouncer that goes well wide of off. Dew is wreaking havoc for these pacers.

Deshpande has effectively run in for two overs to finish this one over. 11 balls effectively and the last one, if you can believe it, is a dot ball! LSG are going quite well here, Mayers on 39 off 17, Rahul on 11 off 9.

Effectively 10th ball of the over, legally just the fifth delivery and that is smashed over long-on for six. 18 runs off the over so far.

When that fourth deliver comes finally, it is a knee high full toss and Mayers biffs it over mid-off to the rope.

Impact player Tushar Pande bowling the fourth over and the fourth ball has turned into a nightmare for him. He oversteps, then goes for a wide yorker that is too wide, then oversteps again, then goes wide again.

Chahar with a length ball outside off, Mayers punches it between cover and extra cover. Perfect placement so didn't matter that it had been at catchable height.