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Follow highlights from match 53 of TATA IPL 2024 between PBKS and CSK here.
Updated : May 05, 2024, 07:08 PM IST
The 53rd match of IPL 2024 will be between Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings in Dharamsala at 3:30 PM IST. Both teams have played 10 matches each in the tournament. Chennai Super Kings have won 5 out of their 10 matches and are in the 5th position on the points table. They have 10 points with a net run rate of +0.627.
Meanwhile, Punjab Kings are in the 7th position on the table with 8 points and a net run rate of -0.062.
In the 29 head-to-head matches between these teams, Chennai Super Kings have won 15 times, while Punjab Kings have won 14 matches.
FOUR! Shardul is greeted into the attack with a boundary by Brar. He cuts it away through the off-side. OUT! Chahar shuffles across looking to scoop this and Shardul bowls it straight on the stumps. Clean bowled. Kagiso Rabada is the last man in.
Driven to the deep through cover by Brar for a single. Nine runs and a wicket from the over.
Santner returns, replaces Deshpande. Spin on both ends now. Just a single off the first three balls. The 50 partnership comes up in style. Shashank hits it straight back above the bowler’s head. Santner has the last laugh! Shashank lofts it again but this time is caught at long on! Sam Curran is the next batter in.
Deshpande continues and it’s a SIX off the first delivery. Prabhsimran steps out and smacks it over long on fence. He comes down the track again, Deshpande adjusts his length but it doesn’t matter, it’s ramped over the infield for a FOUR! Full delivery, Shashank lifts it over the cover fielder for yet another FOUR! The Punjab duo have pulled the momentum towards the home side in the last two overs. PowerPlay comes to an end with a single
Deshpande takes the pace off, it was in the slot, Shashank lofts it over infield for a FOUR. Outside off, Deshpande takes it away from Shashank, who tries to drive it and misses, dot. Straight this time, back of the length, Shashank moves and flicks it for a single. Hint of swing yet again, the ball goes agonisingly close to Prabhsimran’s bat, another dot to end the over
Punjab Kings will begin its chase. Prabhsimran Singh comes in as Impact Player for Punjab Kings, as Arshdeep goes out. Prabhsimran and Bairstow will open. In the block hole by Santner to begin with, and Prabhsimran goes for a heave and misses. He defends the next one coming forward and takes a single. Good bounce and Bairstow misses a cut. Pushed to mid-off by Bairstow for one more. He is off the mark.
Jadeja smacks a low full toss for a boundary to fine leg. Then, he launches a wide delivery over wide long-on for a six. However, he falls on the next ball, swatting a slower delivery straight to Curran at long-on. Punjab Kings end the over conceding 16 runs.
Chahar bowls out. FOUR! Shardul finds the gap between long-off and deep extra-cover with precisions and hammers the ball with the turn. SIX! Slog sweep by Jadeja and that has gone all the way, over the rope at midwicket. Two dot balls to end the over as Chahar goes back of a length outside off.
Harpreet Brar replaces Arshdeep for the final over of the Powerplay. Ruturaj tries to go inside out but misses, dot ball. He then hits a six over long-off. Ruturaj finds the gap between point and cover for a four. Another boundary! Ruturaj lofts it over covers.
Arshdeep continues. Short first up, Mitchell pulls it hard towards the fence, FOUR. SIX! Outside off, Mitchell swings his bat to perfection to hit it over long off! Two dots, the latest one comes off a perfectly nailed yorker. Short again, pulled again but this time there’s a fielder in the deep, single. Single to end the over
Arshdeep starts strong. Rahane drives beautifully for a boundary. Swing and a miss next. Rahane flicks for a single. Ruturaj on strike now. Quick single. Rahane edges to mid-off, caught by Rabada. Clean catch. Daryl Mitchell in next. Arshdeep bowls. Rahane drives beautifully for four. Swing and a miss next. Rahane flicks for one. Ruturaj takes a quick single. Rahane edges to mid-off, caught by Rabada. Clean catch. Daryl Mitchell in next, gets off the mark with a single. Over.
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Jonny Bairstow, Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Sam Curran(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh
Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Richard Gleeson, Tushar Deshpande
PBKS win the toss and elect to bowl first.
Sam Curran: We're going to bowl. Day game, try and see how it plays and chase it down. We've got the same team. We've had two really good wins with the same team. Conditions should be fairly even throughout, it's about batting, bowling and fielding well.
Ruturaj Gaikwad: We've just stuck to our process and doing little things right. We don't look at the track record of the opposition, we focus on ourselves and see what we can do right. This season there have been a lot of injuries, flus and forced changes so we've had to tinker with our team. I'd say losing 10 tosses but winning 5 games is a positive. Santner comes in place of Fizz.
Chennai Super Kings Squad: Ajinkya Rahane, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Richard Gleeson, Matheesha Pathirana, Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, Shaik Rasheed, Prashant Solanki, Mitchell Santner, Rachin Ravindra, Ajay Jadav Mandal, RS Hangargekar, , Maheesh Theekshana, Nishant Sindhu, Aravelly Avanish
Punjab Kings Squad: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran(c), Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Rishi Dhawan, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Shikhar Dhawan, Chris Woakes, Tanay Thyagarajan, Atharva Taide, Nathan Ellis, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary, Vishwanath Singh