IPL 2022: It was like Niagara Falls, says coach Stephen Fleming on dew after CSK's defeat against Lucknow

Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) head coach Stephen Fleming has compared the dew during his team's Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to the Niagara Falls, justifying their move to make Shivam Dube bowl the match-turning 19th over at the expense of spinners. With LSG needing 34 from 12 balls, the duo of Man-of-the-Match Evin Lewis and Ayush Badoni smashed Dube for 25 runs, to bring the equation down to nine from the last over at the Brabourne Stadium here. First-timers LSG then knocked off the required runs to win their first IPL match with three balls to spare on Thursday night.

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Shivam Dube will look to quickly forget the solitary over he bowled against Lucknow Super Giants at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday. Chennai Super Kings were firmly in control of the match with IPL newbies LSG requiring 34 runs off two overs to emerge victorious.

"If you'd looked earlier on, spinning options were taken out of play because it was like Niagara Falls in terms of the wetness and they (LSG) played well," Fleming said the virtual post-match press conference. "So it was very hard to, one, grip the ball for a spinner and, two, to be effective. So early on, we were one over short but they played well. "We always knew we had to pick up an over somewhere -- we were hoping to be able to create enough of a run-rate towards the end that we could squeeze someone in." Skipper Ravindra Jadeaj's two overs went for 21 runs while Moeen Ali gave away 14 runs in his one over, forcing CSK to rely on Dube's medium pace bowling.

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