Chennai Super Kings stopped a high-flying Kolkata Knight Riders with a seven-wicket drubbing of the guests regardless of Andre Russell’s heroics.
In the wake of confining Kolkata to a pitiful aggregate of 108-9 and notwithstanding losing two early wickets, Chennai never looked in a bad position all through the diversion as Faf du Plessis (43* off 45) and Ambati Rayudu (21 off 31) stroked their direction home.
Shane Watson (17 off 9) was headed toward a rankling begin before Sunil Narine (2-24) represented him in the third finished. Suresh Raina (14 off 13) turned into the second casualty of Narine with the score at 35. Du Plessis and Rayudu then included 41 for the third wicket to take the diversion close before the last was expelled by Piyush Chawla (1-28). Kedar Jadhav (8* off 8) at that point went with Du Plessis till the end as the Super Kings pursued down the objective with 16 balls to save.
Prior, Deepak Chahar (3-20) tore separated the Kolkata top request, decreasing guests to 9-3 in 2.3 overs. Robin Uthappa (11 off 9) and Dinesh Karthik (19 off 21) both got begins yet neglected to kick on. By the midway imprint, Kolkata had lost six wickets for only 47 runs. Had it not for Russell’s fifty (50* off 44), things would have been much more distressing for the guests.
Imran Tahir and Harbhajan Singh shared two wickets each for Chennai.
Chahar was pronounced the player of the counterpart for his dazzling opening spell.