In the 49th match of IPL 2024, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by seven wickets at their home ground Chepauk. This was Chennai's fifth defeat this season. The team is currently at fourth position in the points table. Its hopes of easily reaching the playoffs have suffered a major blow. Chennai Super Kings have played six matches at their home ground this season, while they have played four matches at the opposition team's home.
Ruturaj is not winning the toss
During this period, CSK has won four matches at home, while it has won only one match at the opposition teams' grounds. However, whether the match is away or at home, the Chennai team has suffered the most losses due to the toss. Even though the team has won five matches, the new captain of the team Rituraj Gaikwad has proved to be unlucky for the team in terms of toss. He has lost nine out of 10 tosses. In such a situation, the CSK team could not take as much advantage as it could have taken on the dew-affected field.
Dew has played an important role
In the last match against Punjab and the match against Lucknow on 23 April, a lot of dew was seen in Chepauk. In such a situation, the target was easily chased and Chennai suffered the loss of not winning the toss. Ruturaj had won the only toss this season against Kolkata Knight Riders on April 8 and decided to chase. CSK team won that match by seven wickets. In such a situation, it can be estimated that in the few matches that the Chennai team lost while batting first, they could have decided to bowl first, especially in Chepauk.
Dubey returned to the pavilion without opening the account
At the same time, in this match, Shivam Dubey returned to the pavilion without opening his account. He was out LBW on his very first ball of the innings. Harpreet Brar sent him to the pavilion. With this, Brar made a special record in his name. He became the first traditional left-arm finger spinner to dismiss Shivam since IPL 2022. Punjab bowlers bowled brilliantly against Chennai and did not allow a single boundary to be hit on 55 consecutive balls in the middle overs.
The Chennai team could not hit any boundary
This is the most number of balls without hitting a boundary in a single innings this season. The first six of CSK's innings were hit in 16.2 overs. Not a single four or six was hit between overs seven and 15 of CSK's innings. This is the fourth time in the IPL that no boundaries have been hit in these middle overs. Earlier, this had happened in the match between Pune and Kolkata in 2012, Bengaluru and Pune in 2017, and Rajasthan and Mumbai in 2021.
Rituraj's bat has played well in Chepauk
Rituraj may have been unlucky for Chennai in the toss, but his bat has definitely worked in Chepauk. He has played innings of 46, 67 not out, 108 not out, 98, and 62 runs on this ground this season. So far this season, Rituraj has scored 509 runs in 10 innings at an average of 63.63. During this period his strike rate has been 146.69. At present, he has the Orange Cap.
Shivam Dubey took the wicket
Shivam Dubey of Chennai also bowled in this match. For the first time this season, he was seen bowling and took one wicket for 14 runs in one over. He sent Jonny Bairstow to the pavilion. This was Shivam's fifth wicket in IPL. Before this, he also sent Priyam Garg, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, and Glenn Maxwell to the pavilion. He took these four wickets in IPL 2020 while he was with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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