Flamboyant Shikhar Dhawan hit a great 88 that doesn’t come out of the trump card Ambati Rayudu in battle of heroes as Punjab Kings beat Chennai Super Kings 11 times in an IPL thriller on Monday. Dhawan hit nine innings and two in six on his superlative 59-ball unbeaten run to power Punjab to 187 to four after being asked to hit the baton. Punjab then restricted CSK to 176 to 6 even though Rayudu got a stunning 39 78 balls, with seven four-footers and six six-balls. Dhawan also only became the second hitter after Virat kohli to complete 6,000 runs in IPL history.
Rayudu hit three sixs in a row and one four to get 23 runs from match 16 over bowled by Sandeep Sharma (1/40) after CSK needs 70 runs from the last five passes.
But Arshdeep Singh only conceded six times in the next inning and eight in the 19th to tilt the ladder towards Punjab.
After Rayudu came out in the 18th match ended Kagiso Rabada (February 23), CSK still needs 35 runs from 13 balls and superb finisher Mahendra Singh Dhoni (12) has joined the captain Ravindra Jadeja (21 not out) in the middle.
CSK needs 27 from the final round to close and another period is set for Dhoni to repeat his superb finishing action against the Mumbai Indians in their previous game.
Dhoni hit Rishi Dhawan (2/39) for a six on the first ball but two balls later, the legendary hitter was caught in the deep midwicket as it was all over for CSK.
This is CSK’s sixth loss in eight matches while Punjab won its fourth in eight matches. CSK started their race on a bad note when they lost Robin Uthappa (1) in the first part, followed by Mitchell Santner (9) in the second, as the defending champions could only score 32 points from the cross.
Shivam Dube showed promise but then his innings lasted only eight balls and seven runs as CSK was reduced to 40 for 3 of the seven passes.
With the question rate surpassing 11 too soon, someone had to define the boundaries for CSK and here veteran Rayudu showed his class. He hit a big six against Rishi Dhawan to take CSK to 69 to a treble at half-time.
He continued to attack the Punjab pitchers with six more Liam Livingstone because CSK had some growth momentum with the combination of Rayudu and Ruturaj Gaikwadi (30).
But the duo parted ways with Gaikwad leaving after 13 minutes. But Rayudu had great guns, hitting 50 from 28 balls with six offs. Rahul Chahar.
That’s still not an easy proposition for CSK as they need 70 from the finals.
Before that, 36-year-old Dhawan scored his twentieth goal of the season and held the Punjab innings. He combined with Sri Lankan Bhanuka Rajapaksa (42) to hit 110 runs for the second wicket from 11.3 overs behind the captain Mayank Agarwalearly dismissal.
Dhawan has surpassed his previous top score this season – 70 against the Mumbai Indians in Pune.
Dhawan has a possible ally in Rajapaksa, who hit 42 from 32 with the help of two fours and many sixs as the duo frustrated the CSK players for a while. long time in the game.
England player Liam Livingstone, who was bought for Rs 11.5 crore in the IPL auction, played a minor cameo role among 19 seven-ball throws with the help of fours and two sixs at the end. to raise the total number of Punjab. Punjab got off to a slow start after being brought on and their troubled captain Agarwal this season continued as he came off in the sixth inning with 18 of 21 balls. They hit 37 to 1 after passing powerplay.
Dhawan and Rajapaksa keep scoreboards with singles and doubles even though there are not too many boundaries. The duo took Punjab to 72 to 1 in the half.
The advantage for Punjab was that they lost only one game in the first half of the innings and they took advantage of that later in the final.
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They added 64 runs in the last five rounds.
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