Last night Chennai Super Kings was playing their 200^th IPL match against Faf DuPlessis’s Royal Challengers Bangalore. Ending their much-awaited losing streak, CSK registered their first win of the tournament and how. Batsman Shivam Dubey entered the crease when Chennai Super Kings were not in a good condition. The team was two wickets down with not such great numbers. But it seemed like Shivam Dubey was prepped up from the dressing room, itself.

All-rounder Shivam Dube build a partnership of 165 runs with Robin Uthappa for the third wicket. He also made his best IPL score of 95 off 46 balls last night. Dube smashed 8 sixes and five fours and helped CSK put up a total of 216 against RCB. CSK registered a 23-run win, their first in five matches of IPL 2022. 

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Former cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Irfan Pathan and Harbajan Singh congratulated Shivam Dubey and his team Chennai super king on marking their first win of the tournament. After his magnificent bating performance twitter was bombarded with the appreciation tweets for Shivam Dubey. Talking about the same during post-match presentation Dubey said that the credit for the improvement in his performance goes to the former captain MS Dhoni. He further said that he was trying to play a responsible knock just like Yuvraj Singh would do for the Indian cricket team.

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Faf DuPlessis Royal Challenges Bangalore fell short of just 23 runs in registering their fourth consecutive win. Despite the fact that the skipper Faf DuPlessis and former captain Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell got out too early, the RCB team still managed to reach the massive score of 193 in twenty overs. Dinesh Kartik, Suyash Prabhudessai and Shahbaz Ahmed showed glimpses of brilliance with their bat for Royal Challengers Bangalore, but seems like it was not enough to win the game.

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Punjab kings have beaten Chennai Super Kings by 6-wickets in their last league match. PBKS skipper KL Rahul smashed an unbeaten 98 in 42 balls to win it for Punjab. Despite of losing wickets on regular intervals Rahul kept smashing the bowlers all over the park.

CSK scored 134-6 in 20 overs with Faf du-Plessis blazing 76 runs. This is the third consecutive defeat for MS Dhoni-led CSK, which is not a good sign for three-time champions, as the next they will play in knock-out rounds.

After being sent to bat first Chennai Super Kings started poor in powerplay, as Ruturaj Gaikwad – CSK’s best run-scorer in IPL 2021 – got out in 4^th over to Arshdeep Singh. Later, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu and Robin Uthappa, couldn’t help themselves and got-out early. At once, CSK were 61-5 in 12 overs, but ace all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja build a partnership of 66 runs with du-Plessis, until Faf got dismissed at 7 runs. CSK posted 134-6 in 20 overs. Arshdeep singh and Chris Jordan picked two wickets each.

Chasing the target of 135, Punjab came-up with two changes in their squad, Chris Jordan in lace of Nicholas Pooran and Sarfaraj Khan in place of Mandeep Singh. Punjab skipper Rahul started with storm and chased down the target in 13 overs. The domination of Rahul was on such high that the next best scorer for PBKS was Aiden Markram (13). With the ball only Shardul Thakur was effective for CSK, picking 3 wickets.

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However, this win doesn’t change anything for Punjab, as they are already out of the playoffs race. But, at the crucial stage of the tournament losing three consecutive matches might not be good for Chennai. With this defeat Chennai’s top-two finish is also doubtful, if RCB manage to win their next match with big marigin, they will jump to second on the points table and play Delhi in the qualifier-1 in IPL 2021.

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