Chennai Vs Punjab: Chennai beat Punjab with excellent bowling

23 Baisakh, Kathmandu. Chennai Super Kings defeated Punjab Kings by 28 runs with excellent bowling in the 53rd match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. This win has increased Chennai's playoff chances.

Chasing a target of 167 runs, Punjab scored 139 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Prabhashimran Singh of Punjab scored 30 runs off 23 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes.

Jonny Bairstow 7, Riley Rossouw nil, Shashank Singh 27, Sam Karan 7, Harpreet Brar 17, Harshal Patel 12 and Rahul Chahar scored 16 runs.

Rabindra Jadeja of Chennai took 3 wickets, Tushar Deshpande and Simarjit Singh took 2 wickets each. Mitchell Santnar and Shardul Thakur took 1 wicket each.

Before that, Chennai, who lost the toss and were invited to bat first, scored 167 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs.

Ravindra Jadeja scored 43 runs off 26 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Opener Rituraj Gaikwad 32, Daryal Mitchell 30, Ajinkya Rahane 9, Mitchell Santnar 11, Moeen Ali and Shardul Thakur scored 17/17 runs.

Punjab's Rahul Chahar and Harshal Patel took 3 wickets each. Arshdeep Singh 2 and Sam Karan took 1/1 wicket.

Chennai is in third place with 12 points with 6 wins and 5 losses in 11 matches. Punjab is in eighth position with 8 points from 11 matches with 4 wins and 7 losses.

Rajasthan is at the top with 16 points with 8 wins from 10 matches. Kolkata is second with 14 points with 7 wins from 10 matches.