IPL-16: Punjab beat Chennai by four wickets by scoring three runs on the last ball, Superkings lost for the first time while defending two hundred runs
The Fact India: In the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), an exciting match was played between Chennai and Punjab on Sunday. By scoring three runs on the last ball, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by four wickets. On the last ball of a very exciting match, it seemed that the match would go to the super over. Chennai Super Kings scored 200 runs for four wickets in the allotted 20 overs. In reply, Punjab Kings scored 201 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. With this victory, Punjab has come at number five in the points table. Chennai team has lost for the first time while defending a score of 200 or more.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat at the Chepauk ground. Chennai started with a bang. Deven Conway and Rituraj Gaikwad together added 57 runs in six overs. The team did not lose any wicket in the powerplay. Deven Conway and Rituraj Gaikwad got Chennai off to a strong start. There was a partnership of 86 runs on 58 balls between these two. Sikandar Raza broke this partnership. Opener Devon Conway played an unbeaten inning of 92 runs. Day
Wayne Conway scored his 5th half-century in the current season. This is the 7th half-century of Conway’s IPL career. Rituraj Gaikwad was dismissed for 37 off 31 balls and Shivam Dubey scored 28 off 17 balls. In the end, Dhoni took the score to 200 by hitting two consecutive sixes. Arshdeep Singh, Sikandar Raza, Rahul Chahar and Sam Karan took one wicket each for Punjab.
Chasing Chennai’s target of 201 runs, Punjab Kings lost a wicket in the powerplay to score 62 runs. On the second ball of the sixth over, Dhawan became the victim of Deshpande for 28 runs. However, Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhsimran got Punjab off to a brisk start. Both made an opening partnership of 50 runs on 26 balls. Punjab had lost the wicket of Tayde for 94 runs. From here the team needed 107 runs. Then it seemed that the team would disintegrate. Sam Karan, who came here to play, shared a 57-run partnership with Livingstone on 33 balls.
Chennai bowlers looted a lot of runs in the last five overs. 72 runs were scored in these overs. From here the match went into the hands of Punjab. Prabhasimran (42 runs) and Liam Livingstone (40 runs) added important runs for the Kings. Sam Karan (29 runs) and Jitesh Sharma (21 runs) scored important runs in the middle. Sikandar Raza did the remaining work by scoring 13 runs on 7 balls. Tushar Deshpande took three wickets and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets. Mathisha Pathirana got one wicket.
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