IPL 2022: Punjab Kings maintain their nerve in loss of life overs to beat Dhoni, CSK

In a near-repeat of Sunday’s sport at Wankhede Stadium, Shikhar Dhawan’s unbeaten 88 lifted Punjab Kings to 187 for 4. Ambati Rayudu’s 78 off 39 rotated a misfiring chase however Kagiso Rabada despatched him again with two overs left, and MS Dhoni wasn’t capable of reprise his last-over heroics from Chennai Super Kings’ earlier sport towards Mumbai Indians.

Monday follows Sunday

The match was performed on the identical facet pitch on which Lucknow Super Giants defeated Mumbai Indians a day in the past. And on the midway stage of the primary innings, each LSG and PK have been on the precise rating – 72 for 1.
Stroke-making proved to be tough once more, particularly at the beginning, on an already sticky floor that was getting used on successive nights. Even the sector placings have been the identical; deep level and deep sq. leg have been the 2 deep fielders within the powerplay, with each third man and fantastic leg within the ring. With CSK’s three spinners in motion in useful circumstances, for some time it seemed like they have been working at Chepauk. But PK would go on to take 115 off the final ten overs; LSG had managed 96.

That’s that from Match 38.@PunjabKingsIPL win by 11 runs.

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One of the variations was CSK’s twin drops of Bhanuka Rajapaksa in successive overs from Ravindra Jadeja proper after the powerplay. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Mitchell Santner have been the culprits on both facet of the longer sq. leg-side boundary. Rajapaksa scored 42 off 32 helped alongside by misfield and poor deliveries along with the drops. He and Dhawan added 110 for the second wicket in 11.3 overs.
Rajapaksa departed in all probability an over or two too late than what PK would have needed, delaying the arrival of Liam Livingstone till the 18th over. But it additionally meant the English all-rounder got here in with a transparent mindset and didn’t have to consider batting longer in difficult circumstances. Livingstone and Jonny Bairstow scored a mixed 25 off ten balls, serving to PK submit 19 greater than LSG had.

Dhawan takes it deep

Continuing the similarities from Sunday evening, Dhawan batted by means of the primary innings, like KL Rahul had, however with not as a lot late acceleration in an 88 off 59. Rahul had taken on the longer sq. rope and crushed the boundary riders with deft placement. What Dhawan did as an alternative was make good use of the shorter facet. He made certain the choices on the pads disappeared previous quick fantastic leg. He additionally slogged a few sixes over the shorter deep-midwicket boundary.

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Dhawan might not be the tallest however all his shifting round and arching permits him to have a good attain. When the longer boundary was in play to his stronger off-side, he ensured CSK’s useful overpitched choices have been lofted over mid-off or pushed previous him for fours. It was Dhawan who began the PK acceleration with three fours within the twelfth over bowled by Mukesh Choudhary, the left-arm seamer’s pure incoming angle permitting Dhawan to line him up.

Rayudu steps in

The parallels with Sunday evening simply stored coming. CSK’s chase was foundering identical to Mumbai Indians’ had, each prime orders failing to get going. And whereas Tilak Varma had threatened an MI revival for some time, Ambati Rayudu went a step forward and bought CSK shut. Rayudu had damage his left forearm at cowl attempting to cease a drive off the third ball of the sport from Mayank Agarwal, and had spent the remainder of the innings off the sector.

He walked in at 40 for 3 after seven overs, and smacked his second ball from Rahul Chahar to the extra-cover boundary. The forcing lower, the huge slog-sweep, the charge-and-swish – each time the asking-rate appeared to be getting out of hand, Rayudu had the boundary ready.

6.6.6.4 – @RayuduAmbati on 🔥🔥

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A 23-run sixteenth over off Sandeep Sharma, enjoying his first match in almost a month, introduced the equation again to round two runs a ball. Rayudu swiped and slashed three successive sixes and ended the over with a splash to hammer a 4 over midwicket. There didn’t appear to be a lot dew given there wasn’t a lot ball-wiping from the PK fielders, however Sandeep nonetheless delivered excessive full tosses. And lengthy boundary or not, Rayudu was not lacking out.

But simply when it appeared Rayudu’s momentum would carry CSK residence, Kagiso Rabada intervened, touchdown one across the blockhole and sending Rayudu again.

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Arshdeep, Rishi see off Dhoni

Dhoni arrived with 35 wanted off 13 and like Jaydev Unadkat in CSK’s earlier match, he had one other left-armer in his sights – Arshdeep Singh, who bowled the nineteenth. But the younger seamer caught to the complete size and extensive angle throughout Dhoni to the longer boundary. Dhoni bought one away previous further cowl, however Agarwal there had already prevented one, and Arshdeep denied Dhoni off two different deliveries.

Ravindra Jadeja’s incapability to search out the boundary meant CSK required an unbelievable 27 off the final over. And in his first IPL sport in six years, Rishi Dhawan was ok to deliver up a snug victory.