In the 49th match of IPL 2024, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets. This is Punjab’s 5th consecutive win over Chennai in this league. The team has won the second consecutive match for the first time in the current season. With this victory, Punjab has kept its hopes of reaching the playoffs intact. The team has come to 7th place with 2 points. Punjab has a total of 8 points after 4 wins. Punjab won the toss and chose to bowl at the MA Chitambaram Stadium in Chennai. Chennai scored 162 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Punjab achieved the target with the loss of 3 wickets in 17.5 overs. Harpreet Brar was the player of the match.
CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 62 runs in 48 balls. He scored his fourth half-century of the season. Apart from Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane contributed 29 runs and Sameer Rizvi contributed 21 runs. Harpreet Brar and Rahul Chahar took 2-2 wickets. Kagiso Rabada and Arshdeep Singh got 1-1 wicket. PBKS opener Jonny Bairstow played important innings of 46 runs and Riley Rousseau played 42 runs. Captain Samkaran remained unbeaten on 26 runs and Sashank Singh remained unbeaten on 25 runs.
After losing the toss and opting to bat first, Chennai got a strong start from Rituraj Gaikwad and Ajinkya Rahane. Both of them made an opening partnership of 64 runs in 50 balls. Gaikwad scored 37 runs with Sameer Rizvi and 38 runs with Moeen Ali.
After losing the wicket of Prabhasimran for 19 runs at the time of run change, Jonny Bairstow made a partnership of 64 runs in 37 balls with Riley Rousseau for the second wicket. Later, Sashank Singh made a match-winning partnership of 59 runs in 37 balls with Sam Curran.
