IPL 2020: Chennai thrashed Punjab .. both teams are at home

IPL 2020: Chennai thrashed Punjab .. both teams are at home

Chennai Super Kings, who started the IPL 2020 season with a win, ended their journey with a win. Kings XI Punjab set a target of 154 in Sunday's match against Abu Dhabi. While the Chennai team has already exited the playoff race. With today's defeat, Punjab also withdrew from the playoff race and went home. This is the last match for both teams in the latest season. Punjab, who played 14 matches, were restricted to fifth place in the points table with their eighth defeat. Chennai Super Kings finished seventh with six wins from 14 matches.

Chennai Super Kings openers Ruthuraj Gaikwad and Duplessis (48:34 off 4x4, 2x6) started aggressively to chase down 154 runs in the match. The pair put on 82 runs for the first wicket in 9.5 overs and completed half an innings. However .. Duplessis was out in an attempt to play a sweep .. Ruturaj Gaikwad who played timely with Ambati Rayudu (30 not out: 2x4 off 30 balls) 

Who came later .. completed the winning formality in the 19th over. Punjab captain / wicketkeeper KL Rahul .. Ambati Rayudi catch, leaving stumpout .. Mandeep Singh controversially dropped Ruturaj Gaikwad catch. With that .. the pair did not give Punjab another chance.

50-run partnership comes up between Gaikwad and Rayudu.

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Chennai Super Kings, already out of the playoff race, won the toss and elected to field. Mayank Agarwal (5x4 off 26:15 balls), who started the Punjab innings with captain KL Rahul (3x4, 1x6 off 29:27 balls), played aggressively from the first over. With that .. the pair established a 48-run partnership for the first wicket. But Lungi Engidi, who clean bowled Mayank in the sixth over of the innings, also knocked over KL Rahul in the 9th over. Chris Gayle (12:19) was followed by Imran Tahir and Nicholas Pooran (2: 6). With that .. Deepak Hooda (3x4, 4x6 off 62:30 balls) who led the Punjab scoreboard with Mandeep Singh (1x5 off 14:15 balls) for a while .. burst with huge shots in slog overs. In one end, Mandeep, Nashim (2) and Deepak Hooda did not fall behind. Lungi hit two sixes in the over. Hooda, who also hit a six and four in the final over, reached the half-century mark after 48 innings in his IPL career. He also scored his career best score in the IPL. Among the Chennai bowlers, Lungi Engidi took three wickets while Shardul Thakur, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja took wickets.