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Punjab Kings (PBKS) defeated Chennai Super Kings (C𓄧SK) in Match 38 of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Monday.
Chasing the huge target of 189, CSK had a terrible start after losing three wickets for just 40 runs inside the powerplay. Before Punjab could capitalise further, the pair of Ambati Rayudu and Ruturaj Gaikwad tried to calm things down.
The duo added 49 runs for the fourth wicket before Kagiso Rabada dismissed Gaikwad (30) to reduce CSK to 89/4 in 12.3 overs. Rayudu, however, continued the attack and kept the run-rate high to keep CSK fans’ hopes alive.
The right-handed batter took the game deep and smashed 78 off 39 deliveries, including seven fours and six maximums, before Rabada yet again came to PBKS’ rescue, dismissing Rayudu in the 18th over. Eventually, PBKS restricted the Super Kings at 176/6 to win the contest by 11 runs.
Earlier, Shikhar Dhawan shined with the bat to help Punjab pile up a massive total. The explos🦄ive left-handed batter smashed an unbeaten 88 from 59 deliveries, with the help of nine fours and a couple of sixes.
Apart from Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa chipped in with a valuable contribution of 42 off 32 balls as Punjab posted 187/4 on the board in their allotted 20 overs. For CSK, Dwayne Bravo picked up tw๊o wickets for 42 runs in his quota of 4 overs.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Dhawan with the bat!
Dhawan with the ball!WON-KHEDE VICH JEET! 🕺
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL)
Gabbar’s mantra is very sim✱ple, go slow and steady🏏 Congratulations Shikhar♈ on completing 6000 IPL runs.
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R)
Congratulations brother on achieving such a huge milestone of becoming the second player to achieve 6000+ runs in IPL. More power t🌌o you, keep shining! 🙌✨
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Liked how PBKS batted. Started in 1st gear, then went up the gears before going into overdrive. Earlier they used to start in 4th, then Livingstone used to take it to overdrive but others couldn't keep up which often resulted in a collapse. Batted 👏🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
Congratulations on scoring 6000 IPL runs 🉐in y🥂our 200th IPL Match. 👏🏻
— parthiv patel (@parthiv9)
Congratulations Shera on scoring 6000 ipl runs A 🔯Great team man ✅ IPL legend ✅
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
6⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ + runs in ! Fantastic brother 👌👌👌
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Top defensive bowling f꧋rom Rabada and Arshdee♋p. Arshdeep flies under the radar far too much. Excellent
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Chuffed for Rishi Dhawan. K🧔illed it in the domestic circuit 🐻and now bagging his chance in first IPL game in 6 years!
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan)
What a knock by Shikhar Dhawan, on a used pitch, he scored unbeaten 88 runs from 59 balls including 9 fours and 2 sixes – he has more than 1000 runs against Chennai.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
