AHMEDABAD: When he would have arrived for the pre-season camp for the Chennai Super Kings, Shivam Dube would hardly have imagined that he would be one of the major heroes of the MS Dhoni-led side’s fifth title triumph. Launching into some of the cleanest hitting of the cricket ball you would ever see, the Mumbaikar smashed 418 runs in 16 [email protected], at a strike rate of 158.33, with 3 fifties under his belt.
Most importantly, he tonked as many as 35 sixes-the maximum by an Indian batsmen in this edition of the IPL. In the final against Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on Sunday night, the 29-year-old was once again brilliantly used by Dhoni to create maximum ‘impact’ as an ‘Impact player.’ Coming in at No 3, the tall left-hander cracked 32 not out off 21 balls with two sixes, taking CSK home in a tense chase of 171 in 15 overs in the company of Ravindra Jadeja.
