The Punjab Kings picked up two essential factors of their race to qualify for the play offs after beating the Chennai Tremendous Kings by seven wickets on Wednesday on the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai.
On a sizzling and humid night in Chennai, Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran gained the toss and opted to bowl first hoping that dew would come into the image throughout his aspect’s chase.
Regardless of captain Ruturaj Gaikwad’s affected person 48-ball 62, Chennai have been restricted to 162/7 as Punjab’s spin duo Harpreet Brar and Rahul Chahar returned with figures of two/17 and a couple of/16 respectively.
Chennai’s possibilities have been dealt a blow as they misplaced Deepak Chahar two balls into their bowling innings. The house aspect have been already with out two of their frontline pacers in Tushar Deshpande and Matheesha Pathirana.
Regardless of shedding opener Prabhsimran Singh early on, Jonny Bairstow (46) and Rilee Roussow (43) led the cost for Punjab. Although neither participant may attain their respective half-centuries, they’d carried out sufficient injury as Curran (26) and Shashank Singh (25) obtained the job carried out in the long run with 13 balls to spare.
Within the course of, Punjab Kings turned the second group after the Mumbai Indians to beat Chennai Tremendous Kings 5 occasions in a row.
Turning level of the match
The noise degree at Chepauk went up a couple of hundred decibels when Arshdeep Singh removed Gaikwad within the 18th over as MS Dhoni walked out to bat.
Dhoni has been in unbelievable type batting on the dying overs this season. Amongst batters who’ve scored greater than 100 runs this season, solely Jake Fraser-McGurk (233) boasts a better strike fee than Dhoni’s 229.
The Chennai and Indian legend as taken CSK to above-par scorer a number of occasions this season along with his late cameos and on Wednesday, appeared primed to do it once more.
Nevertheless, Chahar bowled among the best overs of the season making a gift of simply three runs whereas additionally choosing the wicket of Moeen Ali. Dhoni was shackled as Punjab restricted the house aspect to what can be a beneath par rating.
The Area’s Participant of the Match
In a event which has seen some loopy hitting and totals in extra of 200 runs being posted frequently, the sight of seeing a bowler conceding lower than 5 runs an over is a sight to behold.
The Punjab Kings on Wednesday had two such bowlers in Rahul Chahar and Harpreet Brar who gave away simply 33 runs of their mixed eight overs and picked 4 essential wickets. It was troublesome to separate the pair and so, they’re each joint Participant of the Match for The Area.
Brar struck twice in a single over breaking the 64-run opening partnership as he removed Ajinkya Rahane. He then adopted it up by dismissing the in-form Shivam Dube for a golden duck.
Chahar struck within the subsequent over dismissing Ravindra Jadeja after which got here again within the nineteenth over the place he gave away simply three runs and picked up the wicket of Moeen Ali.
‘I don’t take into consideration taking wickets’
With a bunch of high quality tempo bowlers in each groups, it was Punjab’s spin twins who have been the very best bowlers on the evening.
In a batting-friendly event, Harpreet Brar mentioned his purpose is to be economical with the ball and make the batter go for dangerous pictures as an alternative.
It was wicket to bowl on. Even Rahul bowled rather well. It was a spin-friendly wicket and we each loved bowling. I’ve been enjoying for the final six years so my confidence is already constructed up. My purpose is to bowl on my strengths after which issues will occur. To be sincere, I do not take into consideration wickets. It’s human nature to need wickets however you additionally go for runs. Now my purpose is to bowl numerous dot balls in my spell and the dot balls create the wicket possibilities.
IPL 2024 Factors Desk
| Place | Crew | Performed | Gained | Misplaced | Web Run Fee | Factors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajasthan Royals | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0.694 | 16 |
| 2 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1.096 | 12 |
| 3 | Lucknow Tremendous Giants | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0.094 | 12 |
| 4 | Chennai Tremendous Kings | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0.627 | 10 |
| 5 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0.075 | 10 |
| 6 | Delhi Capitals | 11 | 5 | 6 | -0.442 | 10 |
| 7 | Punjab Kings | 10 | 4 | 6 | -0.062 | 8 |
| 7 | Gujarat Titans | 10 | 4 | 6 | -1.113 | 8 |
| 9 | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 3 | 7 | -0.272 | 6 |
| 10 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 10 | 3 | 7 | -0.415 | 6 |