Punjab Kings Defeat Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets at Chepauk in IPL 2024
Punjab Kings became the second team in the history of the Indian Premier League to beat Chennai Super Kings five times in a row as they registered a comfortable victory over the defending champions at Chepauk Stadium on Wednesday. Be it bowling or batting, Punjab executed their plan very well. It wasn’t a flashy inning with a flurry of boundaries and dazzling maximums. Rather, it was an evening that belonged to Punjab spinners. HarpreetBrar and Rahul Chahar brought Chennai to their knees with boundary-less spells. Both spinners took four wickets. Winning the toss and fielding first,
The stand-in skipper of the Punjab Kings, Sam Curran, used the dew factor to his advantage. At one point, Chennai was struggling to touch the three-figure score on the board. It was Ruturaj Gaikwad’s gusty knock of 62 runs that helped the home side put together a decent total of 162 runs. With this knock, Gaikwad has now surpassed Virat Kohli in the Orange Cap race.
Chasing down a target of 163 runs, though Prabsimran Singh fell early, Jonny Bairstow and RileeRossouw formed a critical partnership that paved the way for a comfortable chase. In the end, ShashankSingha and Sam Curran finished the job with 13 balls remaining.