Chennai Super Kings (CSK) ended the league stage with a comfortable five-wicket victory🎶 over Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at the Maharashtra C♐ricket Association Stadium in Pune on Sunday. The result benefitted Rajasthan Royals as the former champions booked the fourth and final spot in the playoffs.
Kings XI, who needed to win by at least 53 runs to qualify for the next stage, ended their campaign with eighth defeat to finish at lowly seventh in the standings. Wꦇhile CSK finished second in the table and♔ will play table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad in Qualifier 1 at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Here’s how fans on Twitter reacted to CSK’s win over KXIP:
6 overs 73 to win. No problem, do it in 5.1 overs. Wonderful knock from , and very clever to send Bhajji🎃 and Chahar up the order and catch the opposition by surprise
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Kings XI Punjab's performance this season is like a Bollywood potboiler whose cracking first half is followed by an atrocious second one… @lionsdenkxip
— Navneet Mundhra (@navneet_mundhra)
Well played held it together and that one over finished it. Used all his experience to play out theꦉ burst from Mohit and Rajpoot and then close it out.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
Thats all from Pune folks. win the game agai🐬nst @lionsdenkxip in comprehensive fashion by 5 wickets. Super show with the bat from & the finishing touches added by skipper
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
Wishing , , & best of lu𓆏ck f🅷or 2018 Playoffs
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
Can’t just be sheer co incidence that all the Four Playoff Qualifiers are led by Captains Cool – Dhoni, Williamson,Rahane and Karthik 🏏🏏👍
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
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[Billings gets OUT]
Crowd: Dhoni Dhoni DhoniHarbhajan walks in…
Crowd: WTF
[Harbhajan gets OUT]
Crowd: Dhoni Dhoni DhoniChahar walks in…
Crowd: WTFFFFFF
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar)
CSK is the only team to beat all the 7 opponents at least once in this IPL season….
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)
It's the bowling that won the game today. Going into the playoffs, I reckon they will feel a lot comfortable looking at how their bowlers ran in today
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
KXIP's season:
First 6 matches – Won 5, Lost 1
Last 8 matches – Won 1, Lost 7Result: Disqualifi﷽ed and finished 7th in points table.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
started with a last over win in the opening game of the league phas☂e and finish with a last over win in the finalꦡ game of the league phase
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
And this will be best knock this IPL – has also come at the most critical phase for
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
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MS Dhoni finishes off in style as CSK beat KXIP by 5 wicket🌠s
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
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Wow !!! Yet another victory ☺️☺️☺️☺️!!!congrats !! lovvvvving it ‘😍
Can’t wait for the playoffs!!— Parvati (@paro_nair)
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Dhoni's tactics today.
— Karan Talwar (@BollywoodGandu)
"Dhoni finishes off in style" with a hooked six.
159/5 after 19.1 overs, as KXIP are knocked out.
CSK retain 2nd spot.1⃣SRH
2⃣CSK
3⃣KKR
4⃣RR
❌KXIP
❌MI
❌RCB
❌DD— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz)
"Your performance is Preity much same every year"
KXIP : humse Zinta ho saka humne kiya— Dr Gill (@ikpsgill1)
