It was one of those occasions when MS Dhoni didn’t fire for Chennai Super Kings. Suresh Raina had batted well for his 50 years and manufactured a strong stage alongside Faf Du Plessis yet the guests couldn’t expand on it to achieve 200 which looked gettable. Rather, CSK tottered to 170.
The fans anyway didn’t need to trust that sixes will rain as KL Rahul made Chris Gayle look an onlooker, hustling to a 19-ball 50 years, the third-quickest fifty this IPL. Harbhajan Singh was trucked for 18 and 24 keeps running in CSK’s second and fourth overs. While Deepak Chahar figured out how to keep things tight toward one side Bhajji — playing in his home ground — was focused by Rahul.
Subsequent to hitting two sixes in Bhajji’s first finished, Rahul pounded three back to back fours and completing with two sixes off the spinner. As Punjab dashed to the 100-run mark in only nine overs, twin strikes from Bhajji acquired some similarity to commonality the procedures. He evacuated Rahul, gotten by Imran Tahir for 71 (36b, 7×4, 5×6) and Gayle 28 (28b, 2×4, 2×6) on the score of 108 to postpone the unavoidable.
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Harbhajan then came back to evacuate Mayank Agarwal however at that point it was at that point past the point of no return as Nicholas Pooran played a lively thump of 36 off 22 balls to enable Punjab to remain on course for a reassurance win. A six-wicket win guaranteed that Punjab hop two spots to complete 6th on the focuses table in front of Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
In the middle of Dhoni strolling in towards the finish of the innings and floundering to score enormous runs, CSK had by and by exposed the hypothesis that great Powerplays add to huge scores. Indeed the begin was moderate. Shane Watson battled and was bowled by Sam Curran, Punjab’s best bowler of the day who proceeded to get three wickets. However, at that point du Plessis, alongside Raina (53) included 120 keeps running for the second wicket to set the course for CSK.
Raina was the underlying assailant, accepting dangers as CSK picked up energy. Chennai’s 50 came in the eighth over and by the tenth over CSK had scored 79 for the loss of one-wicket. CSK then proceeded to include 91 keeps running in the following 10 overs with du Plessis driving the charge. At 37 off 28 toward the finish of the tenth over, he proceeded to score 96 off 55 balls, hitting 10 fours and four sixes.
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M Ashwin went for 18 in the fifteenth over with Raina hitting a limit and du Plessis pounding a six and four off him. Andrew Tye’s next over additionally went for 18 keeps running with du Plessis hitting two fours through spreads and square before storing the ball in the group over long-on.
Exactly when a century looked certain, Curran figured out how to create a close immaculate yorker to dispose of du Plessis. From 163 for 3 in 18.4 overs CSK could include only seven additional runs. Mohammed Shami struck twice in the last over to keep CSK to 170, a score Punjab surmounted for a reassurance win.