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Shashank Singh Parihar
The defending champions Chennai Super Kinga nightmare continued on Sunday. When Liam Livingstone’s all-around performance helped Punjab Kings win by 54 runs in the 11th match of IPL in Mumbai.
After losing to Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants in the first 2 games CSK was defeated by Punjab kings on Sunday Chennai Super King’s 54-run loss to Punjab Kings is the Indian Premier League’s second-largest defeat in terms of runs.
Livingston power pack performance
Livingstone was picked up for a price of 11.5 crore INR in the IPL mega auction. But he was still waiting for a performance to match his billing in the IPL.
In Mumbai, he finally delivered under the lights, resuming the attack on Super kings after they had been reduced to 14 for 2 by wickets in each of the first two overs.
Livingstone’s toughness was the big reason why the Kings had their second-highest powerplay score of the season.
Livingstone found room three times to thrash sixes to the short leg-side boundary. One of which was a 108-meter monster, which also crashed Choudhary for fours down the ground and over cover twice.
Kings were up and running at 72 for 2 after six overs. Thanks to Shikhar Dhawan, found his rhythm by smashing three boundaries off Dwayne Bravo’s over.
Bowler’s comeback restricts PBKS to score big
Livingstone and Dhawan put up a 95-run stand to put Kings on track for the 200-plus mark they needed to feel safe. However, after Dhawan miscued Bravo to the edge of the final ball of the tenth over and Livingston was taken at short third by Rayudu in Jadeja’s next over.
PBKS batsmen faced some solid death bowling from Jordan, who was playing his first game for Super Kings, and also a brilliant bowling spell by Dwaine Pretorius.
Jordan had gotten off to a good start, avoiding the early carnage to bowl two powerplay overs for 13 runs. He then took 2 for 10 in the 16th and 18th over, bowling a yorker-length and forcing Shahrukh khan and Smith to take on the longer leg-side boundary, which they failed to do.
The Punjab Kings were unable to finish the innings on a good note reaching only 71 for 5 from their ten overs.
Rabada provided the early breakthrough
Rituraj Gaikwad, last season’s orange cap winner has exemplified the winner’s troubles. For the third match in a row, Gaikwad lasted only 4 balls and failed to go past one he was possibly caught of both his second and 3rd balls before Rabada coaxed a thick outside edge to slip from the next ball of the second over.
CSK’s middle order collapsed once again
Super kings had made the kind of disastrous start that their pursuit could never recover from, with Robin Uthappa caught off a leading edge. Two balls later Moeen Ali chopped on in the fifth and Jadeja bowled with outside age as well.
Shivam Dube’s brilliant knock gone in vain
Shivam Dube opted to counter-attack when the asking rate trekked and the left-handed batsman smashed five fours and one six. CSK, on the other hand, needed 108 from the remaining seven overs.
After that Dube blasted successive sixes to reach 50 of just 26 deliveries, Rabada bowled the 14th over, which produced 18 runs for the sixth wicket. Dube’s knock doesn’t help CSK to cross the winning mark. No other better helped him through the end, which resulted in the victory for the Punjab kings by 54 runs.