Chennai Super Kings (CSK) required 81 runs off 34 balls when MS Dhoni came in to bat against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday in coordinate 25 of IPL 2020 in Dubai. Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, and Ravindra Jadeja were still to bat thus the onus was again on MS Dhoni to assume responsibility and take his group over the triumphant line. Dhoni had confronted a great deal of criticism as of now due to a terrible run with the bat in the thirteenth release of the money-rich association thus pressure was straight away on him.

There was likewise very little time when Dhoni strolled in and activities were required from the ball go. Yuzvendra Chahal was presented only 4 balls after the CSK chief's appearance. Chahal bowled a decent length on the off-stum line, to begin with as Dhoni took a solitary. The third bundle of the over was directly under Dhoni's curve and he snatched the chance to hit a straight six.

We should stop here for some time and rather investigate how Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has portrayed this over. We are simply humans following this game enthusiastically and we stand nowhere near the clarifications given by the 'Lord' of cricket himself.

Sachin Tendulkar has said that Yuzvendra Chahal 'played chess with MS Dhoni' in the over.

Portraying the second ball after the one which went for six, Tendulkar has said that the RCB leg-spinner bowled the conveyance with negligible movement on the leg-stump line. The moderate movement by Chahal as indicated by Sachin Tendulkar was in the desire to get a top-edge from MS Dhoni. Tendulkar said that Dhoni comprehended what Chahal was attempting to do and consequently obstructed the ball. It was now that Sachin understood that Chahal was 'playing chess' with the previous India commander.

"When MS Dhoni came to bat then Chahal came in front of him. He gave the first ball in the arc of Dhoni and he effortlessly hit a six and that's his strength. He changed the line on the next ball. He bowled it towards the leg-stump and also he kept the pace slow, expecting that it would take a top-edge and there will be a chance. MS Dhoni realized it and blocked the ball. but then he also started thinking. I think Chahal was playing chess with MS Dhoni, he was playing mind games," the former Mumbai Indians batsman said.

"MS Dhoni then decided that he would move towards the leg-stump and come line with the ball to play that length on the next delivery but Chahal again used a chess move there and bowled the ball wide of MS Dhoni towards the off-stump. MS Dhoni had to stretch him to reach there, he reached the ball but the ball hit in the bottom half of the bat and so he could not generate that power in the shot. The long-off fielder took a catch. These mind games between the two were interesting. Did not go on for long but it was good. Chahal, it was a chess move."

Wickets fell consistently for CSK after that and the team slumped to their 5th defeat in the IPL 2020 season.