Chennai Super Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 12 runs in the sixth match of IPL 2023 in a high-scoring game. Chennai marked their grand homecoming to Chepauk with a victory over Lucknow. After Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway shared a 110-run opening stand, Ambati Rayudu, captain M.S. Dhoni, Moeen Ali, and Shivam Dube propelled CSK to reach 217/7. Kyle Mayers threatened to steal their thunder with a 22-ball 53, but Moeen and Mitchell Santner came in as LSG slipped to 82/3 in the eighth over. Moeen picked 4-26, and Santner returned with 1-21 to bring Chennai back into the game. Nicholas Pooran threatened to drive Lucknow to a late win, but Tushar Deshpande took him out as the visitors ended up at 205/7, with Chennai pocketing vital two points. Mayers made strokeplay look ridiculously easy, but Moeen provided the breakthrough in the final over of Power-play, as Mayers slog-swept straight to deep mid-wicket. In the next over, Deepak Hooda couldn’t time his slog-sweep and holed out to long-on. Rahul went for slog-sweep too and picked out deep mid-wicket. Pooran kept the chase alive for Lucknow, but his lofted drive was caught by long-off against Deshpande. He took out Ayush Badoni in the final over though he gave away 15 runs, but by then the match was in Chennai’s favour.
