His counterattack with the bat and twin strikes with the ball energy Kings to victory
His counterattack with the bat and twin strikes with the ball energy Kings to victory
Within the final version, Chennai Tremendous Kings entered the playoffs regardless of dropping three matches on the trot. However M.S. Dhoni’s males acquired their act proper when it mattered, and regained the IPL Trophy.
This time, the defending champion has suffered an unprecedented hat-trick of losses at the beginning of the league. With Ravindra Jadeja on the helm and the obtainable assets at hand, the crew faces a problem like by no means earlier than.
Decisive function
After the batters of Kolkata Knight Riders within the campaign-opener and debutant Lucknow Tremendous Giants laid Tremendous Kings low, it was the flip of the Punjab Kings bowlers to play a decisive function in inflicting a giant 54-run defeat on the Brabourne Stadium on Sunday.
The anticipated run-feast by no means materialised as soon as Tremendous Kings started the chase poorly. One man who performed the important thing function for Kings was Englishman Liam Livingstone. The ‘Man-of-the-Match’ flattened Tremendous Kings twice, first with the bat after which with the ball.
Strolling in to face the ninth ball of the innings with Kings at 14 for 2, Livingstone launched a brutal counter-attack with a 32-ball 60 with 5 sixes and as many boundaries. He was significantly extreme on the younger left-arm new-ball bowler Mukesh Choudhary who conceded 44 runs within the PowerPlay, together with 26 off the eight-ball fifth over.
After Tremendous Kings clawed again by conceding simply 38 runs within the final six overs — to make amends for the 72 conceded within the PowerPlay — and managed to maintain Kings to 180, Liamstone was to show that he was not completed but.
Simply when the belligerent Shivam Dube and Dhoni have been within the technique of salvaging some pleasure for Tremendous Kings after becoming a member of arms at 36 for 5 within the eighth over, Livingstone dealt two successive blows to hasten the top.
Bowling his innocuous trying leg-spinners, Livingstone foxed Dube and induced a miscued heave.
Off the following ball, Livingstone introduced off a surprising one-handed catch to ship again Dwayne Bravo.
Thereafter, the gang regarded as much as Dhoni for some fireworks however he too departed quickly for a 28-ball 23.
Earlier than Rahul Chahar picked up three lower-order wickets, debutant pacer Vaibhav Arora, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Odean Smith despatched again the top-five Tremendous Kings batters.
Scoreboard
Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal c Uthappa b Mukesh Choudhary 4 Shikhar Dhawan c Ravindra Jadeja b DJ Bravo 33 Bhanuka Rajapaksa run out (Chris Jordan/Dhoni) 9 Liam Livingstone c Rayudu b Ravindra Jadeja 60 Jitesh Sharma c Uthappa b Pretorius 26 Shahrukh Khan c Pretorius b Chris Jordan 6 Odean Smith c DJ Bravo b Chris Jordan 3 Kagiso Rabada not out 12 Rahul Chahar c DJ Bravo b Pretorius 12 Vaibhav Arora not out 1 Extras: (LB-1, W-13) 14
Whole: (8 wkts, 20 Overs) 180
Fall of Wickets: 1-4, 2-14, 3-109, 4-115, 5-146, 6-151, 7-161, 8-176.
Chennai Tremendous Kings bowling: Mukesh Choudhary 4-0-52-1, Chris Jordan 4-0-23-2, Dwayne Bravo 3-0-32-1, Ravindra Jadeja 4-0-34-1, Dwaine Pretorius 4-0-30-2, Mooen Ali 1-0-8-0.
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
Robin Uthappa c Mayank b Vaibhav 13 (10b, 2×4), Ruturaj Gaikwad c Dhawan b Rabada 1 (4b), Moeen Ali b Vaibhav 0 (2b), Ambati Rayudu c Jitesh b Smith 13 (21b, 2×4), Ravindra Jadeja b Arshdeep 0 (3b), Shivam Dube c Arshdeep b Livingstone 57 (30b, 6×4, 3×6), M.S. Dhoni c Jitesh b Rahul Chahar 23 (28b, 1×4, 1×6), Dwayne Bravo c & b Livingstone 0 (1b), Dwaine Pretorius c Arshdeep b Rahul Chahar 8 (4b, 1×6), Chris Jordan c Livingstone b Rahul Chahar 5 (5b), Mukesh Choudhary (not out) 2 (2b); Extras (w-2, nb-2): 4; Whole (in 18 overs) 126.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-10 (Ruturaj, 1.6), 2-14 (Uthappa, 2.2), 3-22 (Moeen, 4.4), 4-23 (Jadeja, 5.3), 5-36 (Rayudu, 7.3), 6-98 (Dube, 14.5), 7-98 (Bravo, 14.6), 8-107 (Pretorius, 15.5), 9-121 (Dhoni, 17.1).
PUNJAB KINGS BOWLING
Vaibhav 4-0-21-2, Rabada 3-0-28-1, Arshdeep 2-0-13-1, Smith 2-0-14-1, Rahul Chahar 4-0-25-3, Livingstone 3-0-25-2.
