A glorious, combating half-century by seasoned Ambati Rayudu went in vain as a clinical bowling efficiency saw Punjab Kings beat Chennai Clean Kings by 11 runs in Match 38 of IPL 2022 on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday.
Chasing a procedure of 188 procedure by Punjab Kings largely boosted by a excellent 88 no longer out by Shikhar Dhawan, Chennai had been in effort soon.
Rayudu got right here in to bat with Chennai struggling at 40/3 and took them to safety with a blazing 78 off 39 balls, hitting seven fours and 6 sixes to take hopes for a CSK victory. He raised 64 runs off 32 deliveries for the fifth wicket partnership.
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But within the tip, Jadeja (21 off 16 balls) could maybe furthermore no longer book his crew to victory as from wanting 47 off 24 balls, they reached a stage where they wished 27 off the closing six deliveries with Jadeja and M.S Dhoni on the crease.
Dhoni struck Rishi Dhawan for a six off the major ball nevertheless was out off the third honest offer and Jadeja could maybe furthermore arrange fully a six and a single off the glorious two deliveries as CSK slumped to their sixth defeat in eight fits — ending with 176/6 in 20 overs.
Chennai bought off to a sad open and lost opener Robin Uthappa with 10 runs on the board, high-edging a length ball by Sandeep Sharma to Shikhar Dhawan. It soon turned 40/3 as Mitchell Santner (9) and Shivam Dube (8) bought out cheaply.
But appropriate when it looked worship they’ll undergo a fall down, Rayudu bought along with the assorted opener, Ruturaj Gaikwad to pull them out of the woods. Every Rayudu and Gaikwad started cautiously nevertheless struck some honest boundaries on the factual occasions to retain Chennai’s hope alive.
They added 49 runs for the fourth wicket and appropriate when it was taking a understand worship they’ll elevate the tempo, Gaikwad, who despatched Rabada to the boundaries off successive deliveries within the major over, was out, caught by Mayank Agarwal whereas attempting to hit Rabada for a 2nd successive four within the 13th over.
Rayudu nevertheless, saved up the magnificent work. He struck Sandeep Sharma for fours off successive deliveries because the bowler strayed on legs and blasted Rahul Charar for a four and a six within the 15th over sooner than hammering Sandeep Sharma for 23 runs within the 16th over, blasting three sixes and a four.
He and skipper Ravindra Jadeja raised 64 runs for the fifth wicket in 32 balls, Rayudu doing the bulk of the scoring. He bought out appropriate when it looked he was magnificent for a century, cleaned up by Rabada with an well-known yorker backing away from the leg aspect nevertheless lacking the ball utterly to leer his leg stump re-organized. Rayudu’s excellent 78 off 39 balls left CSK wanting 47 off 24 balls.
With Arshdeep Singh and Rabada bowling two magnificent overs, the equation got right here down to 27 off the closing 6 deliveries and at closing to 19 off two balls and though Jadeja struck Rishi Dhawan for a six, CSK at closing fell brief by 11 runs.
Shikhar Dhawan carried his bat thru as he scored an unbeaten 88 off 59 deliveries, hitting 9 fours and a pair of sixes as he helped Punjab Kings to 187/4 after they had been requested to bat first by Chennai Clean Kings skipper Ravindra Jadeja.
Short scores: Punjab Kings 187/4 in 20 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 88 no longer out, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 42, Liam Livingstone 19; Dwayne Bravo 2/42) beat Chennai Clean Kings 176/6 in 20 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 30, Ambati Rayudu 78, Ravindra Jadeja 21 no longer out; Kagiso Rabada 2/23, Rishi Dhawan 2/39) by 11 runs.
