A stable partnership between Faf du Plessis (31-ball 34) and Moeen Ali (31-ball 46) following a magical career-best bowling spell from Deepak Chahar (4/13) helped Chennai Tremendous Kings beat Punjab Kings by 6 wickets to safe their first-ever win in IPL 2021.
Deepak Chahar’s four-wicket haul restricted Punjab Kings to 106/8 of their allotted 20 overs. Chahar was so good with the ball at this time as he did the utmost harm proper from the very begin of Punjab’s innings. Six PBKS batsmen had been again within the dressing room in simply 12.1 overs.
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Chasing the goal of 107 runs, CSK’s first wicket fell in type of Rituraj Gaikwad, who was dismissed for simply 5 runs. However, after this, a 66-run partnership between Moin Ali and Faf du Plessis for the second wicket pulled CSK again into the sport. When Moeen bought out, the staff’s rating reached 90 runs and victory was simply 17 runs away.
After Moeen’s departure, Suresh Raina was the subsequent man to the crease however was quickly dismissed my Mohammed Shami for 8 runs in 9 balls. After taking the wicket of Raina, Shami despatched Ambati Rayudu again to the dugout on the very subsequent ball. Everybody felt that Dhoni will come to the crease subsequent however as an alternative of coming himself, he despatched younger Sam Curran to help Faf Du Plessis within the center.
When Sam Curran got here within the center, CSK wanted solely 8 runs to win. Curran performed an attractive stroke to energy his staff to an awesome win earlier than 4.2 overs after hitting the fourth ball of Meredith within the sixteenth over.