Chennai Super Kings won comfortably by 28 runs against Punjab Kings. All-round show by Ravindra Jadeja, who scored 43 runs and took three wickets. Won Player Of The Match Award.
Punjab chasing 169 runs, started losing wickets from the 2nd over only. Some fought from Prabhsimran Singh( 30 runs)and Shashank Singh(27 runs), but it was not enough for Punjab. Wickets fell at regular intervals. They scored 139/9 in 20 overs. This Chennai won by 28 runs.
Excellent bowling by Chennai bowlers, who bowled beautifully. Ravindra Jadeja who had taken 3 wickets. Tushar Deshpande and Simarjeet Singh have taken 2 wickets each.
Before that, After Winning the Toss Punjab opted to bowl first. Ajinkya Rahane once again got out early, But Ruturaj Gaikwad and Daryl Mitchell tried to stabilize the innings, Mitchell and Gaikwad scored 57 runs for the second wicket.
Rahul Chahar, who took 2 wickets in 2 balls, immediately after the time out. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 32 runs injust 21 balls, Shivam Dube once again got out for Duck.
Moeen Ali and Ravindra Jadeja tried to stabilize the innings but Moeen Ali got out at 17 runs. Wickets fall at regular intervals. But Ravindra Jadeja batted superbly and scored 43 runs and got out to Arshdeep Singh.
In the 19th over Harshal Patel bowled superbly and took two important wickets of Shardul Thakur and MS Dhoni and gave only two runs.
In 20 overs Chennai had scored 167 runs in 20 overs losing 9 wickets.