IPL 2022: PBKS vs CSK Match Report: Dhawan drives Punjab Kings to win over Chennai Super Kings

Ambati
Rayudu’s
39-ball
78-run
knock
went
in
vain
as
CSK
lost
their
sixth
match
of
the
season.

Chasing
a
challenging
189,
Chennai
Super
Kings
got
off
to
a
poor
start
losing
opener
Robin
Uthappa
for
1
as
they
lost
their
first
wicket
for
10
in
the
second
over
of
the
innings.

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Sandeep
Sharma
gave
Punjab
Kings
the
first
breakthrough.
CSK
were
dealt
another
severe
blow
as
they
lost
the
wicket
of
Mitchell
Santner
for
9
as
left-arm
pacer
Arshdeep
Singh
cleaned
him
up
to
leave
CSK
tottering
at
30
for
2.

In
the
next
over
Rishi
Dhawan
cleaned
up
all-rounder
Shivam
Dube
for
8
to
leave
CSK
tottering
at
40/3.

The
defending
champions
desperately
needed
a
partnership
and
opener
Ruturaj
Gaikwad
and
Ambati
Rayudu
did
exactly
that
to
take
their
side
beyond
the
50-run
mark
in
7.5
overs.

Gaikwad-Rayudu’s
49-run
partnership
was
broken
by
Kagiso
Rabada
as
he
dismissed
Gaikwad
for
30
off
27
balls
as
CSK
lost
their
fourth
wicket
for
89.

Rayudu
kept
hitting
powerful
blows
to
take
his
team
beyond
the
triple-figure
mark
in
13.4
overs
and
in
the
process
notched
up
his
half-century
off
just
28
balls.

Rayudu
and
Jadeja
put
on
a
fifty
partnership
for
the
fifth
wicket
off
just
21
balls.
These
two
took
CSK’s
total
beyond
the
150-run
mark
in
17.2
overs.

Rabada
got
the
dangerman
Rayudu
out
for
78
off
39
balls
hitting
seven
fours
and
six
maximums.

Mahendra
Singh
Dhoni
walked
out
to
bat
with
CSK
needing
35
runs
of
13
balls.
Dhoni
tried
hard-hitting
a
four
and
a
six
but
was
dismissed
by
Rishi
Dhawan
for
8-ball
12
run
knock
as
his
side
fell
short
by
11
runs.

Earlier
being
put
in
to
bat,
Punjab
Kings
got
off
to
a
steady
start
as
captain
Mayank
Agarwal
and
experienced
opener
Shikhar
Dhawan,
who
was
playing
his
200th
IPL
match,
batted
sensibly.

In
the
second
over,
Shikhar
Dhawan
became
only
the
second
batter
in
the
history
of
IPL
after
Virat
Kohli
to
amass
6,000
runs
in
the
league.
In
another
milestone
for
the
southpaw,
he
reached
the
milestone
of
9,000
runs
in
T20s
in
the
sixth
over.

Maheesh
Theekshana
gave
CSK
the
first
breakthrough
by
dismissing
Mayank
Agarwal
for
18
of
21
balls.
Bhanuka
Rajapaksa
joined
Dhawan
and
the
duo
took
Punjab’s
total
beyond
the
50-run
mark
in
the
eighth
over.

The
Rajapaksa-Dhawan
duo
batted
brilliantly
to
strike
a
fifty
partnership
and
take
their
team’s
total
beyond
the
triple-figure
mark
in
12.3
overs.
The
36-year
old
Dhawan
went
on
to
score
his
half-century
off
37
balls.

The
Rajapaksa-Dhawan
pair
kept
on
hammering
CSK’s
bowling
attack
as
they
notched
up
a
century
stand
of
63
balls
on
a
wicket
where
the
ball
was
not
coming
easy
on
the
bat.

Dwayne
Bravo
managed
to
break
the
110-run
partnership
dismissing
the
Sri
Lankan
batter
to
a
32-ball
42.
Liam
Livingstone
walked
in
to
bat
and
scored
7-ball
19
in
order
to
take
the
Punjab
team
beyond
the
150-run
mark
in
the
18th
over.

Dhawan
continued
to
hit
lusty
blows
and
took
the
Punjab
team
to
187/4
in
20
overs.
Dhawan
remained
unbeaten
on
88
off
59
balls
hitting
nine
fours
and
two
sixes.