Chennai, May 2 -- Five time winners and home favourites Chennai Super Kings (CSK) bowlers rose the occasion to restrict an equally fancied Mumbai Indians to 159 for seven, despite a fighting half century by middle order batter Naman Dhir, in a key IPL match at the M A Chidambaram stadium here on Saturday night.

The CSK, in a must win situation like MI to keept its playoff hopes afloat, seemed to have ticked all the boxes correctly, getting early breakthrough and picking up wickets in the middle and death overs, with both the pacers Anshul Kamboj and Jamie Overton and key leftarm spinner Noor Ahmed keeping the rival batters under check.

The dropping of another leftarm spinner Akeal Hosein, who was instrumental in CSK's commanding 103-run o...