IPL Live 2020 / Chennai Super Kings defeated Kings XI Punjab by 9 wickets

In the 53rd match of the 13th season of IPL, Chennai Super Kings defeated Kings XI Punjab by 9 wickets. Punjab was eliminated from the play-off race with this defeat. He has 12 points with 6 wins in 14 matches. At the same time, Chennai is already out of the tournament. He too has won only 6 matches out of 14.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Nov 01, 2020, 07:14 PM
In the 53rd match of the 13th season of IPL, Chennai Super Kings defeated Kings XI Punjab by 9 wickets. Punjab was eliminated from the play-off race with this defeat. He has 12 points with 6 wins in 14 matches. At the same time, Chennai is already out of the tournament. He too has won only 6 matches out of 14.

In the match played in Abu Dhabi, after losing the toss, Punjab came to bat and gave Chennai a target of 154 runs. In reply, Chennai won the match by scoring 154 runs at the loss of one wicket in 18.5 overs. Rituraj Gaikwad scored the highest consecutive unbeaten innings of 62 runs while putting his fifth consecutive fifty in the league. Faf du Plessis scored 48 runs and Ambati Rayudu scored 30 not out. At the same time, Chris Jordan of Punjab got the only wicket.

Chennai openers got a good start, Chennai openers gave a good start to their team. Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad raised the team's score by playing fine first. Both set offensive shots after the set and scored 57 runs in the power-play. Both shared an 82-run partnership for the first wicket.


Hooda made Punjab score 153 runs before Punjab scored 153 for the loss of 6 wickets. Deepak Hooda made his second fifty in the league, scoring the highest 62 runs in 30 balls. Apart from Hooda, no batsman was able to score big.

At the same time, Lungi Ngidi took 3 wickets for Chennai. Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja got 1-1 wickets.

Rahul-Mayank gave a good start, Punjab captain Lokesh Rahul gave a good start to the team with Mayank Agarwal. Both shot well and also scored a 48-run opening partnership off 32 balls. This partnership was broken by Lungi Engidi. He bowled Mayank to a personal score of 26 runs.

Even Gayle-Puran did not work, after a good start Punjab's innings faltered. Lokesh Rahul was dismissed for 29 runs off 27 balls, Nicholas Puran 2 runs off 6 balls and Chris Gayle scored 12 runs off 19 balls. Punjab lost the wickets of these 3 players at a difference of just 10 runs.

Dhoni said- My last match in Yellow Jersey, Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni put a stop to the speculation of his retirement from IPL on Sunday. During the toss against Punjab, Danny Morrison asked him if this is your last match in the yellow jersey in the IPL. To this Dhoni immediately replied that absolutely not.

3 changes in Chennai and 2 changes in Punjab

Chennai made 3 changes to the team. Shane Watson, Mitchell Santner and Karn Sharma were not included in the squad. He was replaced by Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir and Shardul Thakur in the squad. At the same time, 2 changes were made in Punjab. Mayank Agarwal replaced Jimmy Neesham and Arshadeep Singh in the playing eleven in place of Glenn Maxwell.


Both teams are Chennai: Faf du Plessis, Rituraj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, N Jagadeeshan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain, wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Karan, Deepak Chahar, Imran Tahir, Shardul Thakur and Lungi Ngidi.

Punjab: Lokesh Rahul (captain, wicketkeeper), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Jimmy Neesham, Deepak Hooda, Chris Jordan, Murugan Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi and Mohammed Shami.