So, the Chennai Super Kings stream rolled all over Punjab King’s side in this Wankhede-based battle of the best. Punjab Kings was miserable in all aspects of the game but they were the worst while setting up the target.
Punjab Kings set a target of 107 for Chennai to chase and The Yellow side chased it down very easily before 26 balls. Moeen Ali scored 46 runs and that turned out to be the reason they grabbed the win but the most important one was the way Deepak Chahar’s wrath havoc over Punjab Kings batting when he dismissed 4 top batters of the PBKS side.
The finish of this match marks an interesting change in Net Run rate cause Chennai not only won convincingly but they kept in mind that the early finish to this match would give them (CSK) a major net run rate boost. These boosts are important considering in the later stages, these heavy wins do wonder for any team.
Punjab was on the positive side before the match, but this heavy loss hurts them the most. They now sit at – 0.909, which will take a season-long level of recovery and Chennai was on the negatives, but now stands as the best NRRed team among all with +0.61.
