Marcus Stoinis scored an unbeaten century, in stark contrast to Ruturaj Gaikwad’s brilliant century, to seal a stunning six-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in their IPL match on Tuesday. Stoinis (124, 63b, 13×4, 6×6) helped the Super Giants achieve the highest target of 211 runs in the IPL at Chepauk, ending at 213 for four. Gaikwad (108, 60b, 12×4, 3×6) and Shivam Dubey (66, 27b, 3×4, 7×6) added 104 runs for the fourth wicket to help Super Kings post a competitive score of 210 for four. Thus, LSG also achieved a rare back-to-back home and away win over Chennai as they had won the match at the Ekana Stadium a few days ago.

Stoinis’ innings was a complete contrast to Gaikwad’s silky smooth innings.

The Australian’s 6’1 inch frame is a bundle of strength and he made no attempt to hide it, hitting a few fours and sixes, and none more special than his maximum fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman, who dismissed LSG skipper KL Rahul cheaply in the first I was out. ,

Rahman pitched a slightly fuller off-cutter over the off-stump, but Stoinis produced a physics-defying straight crunch over the bowler’s head for a six.

At the other end, Pooran was on overdrive from the first ball, partly due to a 55-run linear partnership between Stoinis and the struggling Devdutt Padikkal (13, 19b), whose misery ended when Pathirana 151 km out to uproot the batsman. Scorers produced per hour. Leg stump.

It was inevitable that Pooran, who had added 70 runs with Stoinis, did not have the luxury of taking his time to settle down, but he was up to the task and dismissed Shardul Thakur in the 16th over, including two sixes and a four. Was out on 20 runs.

With Pooran dismissed by fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana, the task of taking LSG home was left to Stoinis, who eased the equation by scoring 15 runs in the 19th over bowled by the Sri Lankan.

Stoinis needed to take 17 runs from the last over bowled by Rahman and he accomplished the task by giving away 6, 4, 4 (1 NB) and 4 runs to the Bangladesh left-hander with three balls to spare.

Earlier, Gaikwad and Dubey paced the Super Kings innings after the power play (49/2) and mid-way.

CSK should mainly thank Gaikwad, who played an innings that was a connoisseur’s delight after the early dismissal of Ajinkya Rahane, for a total that was brilliantly dismissed by stumper KL Rahul off Matt Henry. Took a catch.

Batting in this edition of the IPL has been all about scorching the ball away, but Gaikwad took a classic route, timing the ball through the gaps for fours.

In fact, there were no fours in his first half-century but he still managed to maintain a strike-rate above 180 during that phase.

The half-century was scored in just 28 balls. The most spectacular shot played by Gaikwad on the night was a slice-cut off fast bowler Mohsin Khan which hit the point fielder for four.

However, his focus was also on forming useful partnerships with his teammates as he added 45 runs with Daryl Mitchell and 52 runs with Ravindra Jadeja (17).

However, both Mitchell (11) and Jadeja, who were out for four, will regret missing the chance to play a big innings.

While Gaikwad was the main contributor in those partnerships, the pressure eased off his shoulders a bit once Dube came to the crease.

The left-hander played some powerful hits around the ground and, not surprisingly, hit the first six of CSK’s innings off Stoinis in the 13th over.

Gaikwad soon hit his first six of the innings off the 45th ball he faced – pulling Stoinis’ half-tracker over mid-wicket.

However, Dubey slipped effortlessly in his six-hitting avatar and fast bowler Yash Thakur had to bear the brunt of it as the left-handed batsman hit him for three consecutive sixes.

Gaikwad, who reached 99 with a six over extra cover off Thakur, completed his second IPL century with a four off the next ball as he scored 16 runs in the 18th over.

Gaikwad and Dubey completed 100 runs of their partnership in just 46 balls.