Follow UsThe Chennai Super Kings lost their fourth game in a row, when they fell short by 18 runs against the Punjab Kings' total of 219, on April 8 (Tuesday) at the Maharaja Yadvinder Singh Stadium in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh.
Here are the top four talking points from the game that saw Punjab Kings move to fourth place in the points table.
Yuzvendra Chahal is not known for his fielding at all. He dropped Devon Conway in the 11th over and, prior to that, he did not dive full length to try and catch Rachin Ravindra.
But when it came to the crunchest moment of them all, a rocket paddle sweep from MS Dhoni and stationed at short fine leg, Chahal first held the ball in both his hands, and when it was almost getting out of his grip, he made sure that he was letting nothing go away from him.
Conway, batting brilliantly throughout the chase where he went on from batting at 26 off 23 balls, to hitting fifty off 36 balls and then going on to reach 69 off 49 balls. He was ready to finish the game, but couldn’t. Why? Because he was not even there in the last two overs. He was retired on the fifth ball of the 18th over in favour of Ravindra Jadeja.
That was not at all the right decision as Jadeja, after facing five balls, could hit only one boundary.
Priyansh Arya became only the second player in IPL 2025 to hit a century, and he did it in some style, by becoming the fastest uncapped IPL centurion. He took on all the CSK bowlers, striking at 245.23.
In the Punjab Kings’ scorecard, apart from Arya, who scored 103, the next five batters i.e. Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera and Glenn Maxwell could not even enter the double digits.
So even after Arya’s century, they were struggling at 154/6 in the 14th over when Marco Jansen got together with Shashank Singh and the duo added an unbeaten 65 off 38 balls to take the team to a winning total of 219/6.