After this victory of CSK, there was a flood of memes on social media.
In the 53rd match of IPL 2024, Chennai Super Kings defeated Punjab Kings by 28 runs at their home. Punjab Kings’ batting, which came to chase the target of 168 runs, failed miserably today and the team could score only 139 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated overs. Ravindra Jadeja performed all-round for CSK and apart from scoring 43 runs with the bat, he also took three important wickets with the ball. With this victory, Punjab’s consecutive winning streak against CSK was also broken.
Punjab bowlers restricted CSK to 167 runs.
Earlier, after losing the toss and coming to bat first, Chennai Super Kings team managed to score 167 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. After losing early wickets, the team batted well in the powerplay and scored 60 runs at the loss of 1 wicket. However, after this the Punjab bowlers made a tremendous comeback for the team.
Rahul Chahar took two big wickets in the form of Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shivam Dubey in his very first over. After this, Harshal Patel gave the fourth blow to CSK by dismissing Daryl Mitchell. These two bowlers destroyed Chennai’s batting by taking a total of 6 wickets. Arshdeep Singh took two wickets, while Sam Curran took 1 wicket.
Ravindra Jadeja scored the highest score of 43 runs for CSK. In his 26-ball innings, he hit three fours and two sixes. Ruturaj Gaikwad contributed 32 runs and Mitchell contributed 30 runs.
Chennai bowlers dominated
Chasing the target of 168 runs, Punjab Kings team could score 139 runs for 9 wickets in the stipulated overs. The team had a very bad start and Tushar Deshpande showed the way to the pavilion to Jonny Bairstow (7) and Riley Rousseau (0) in the very second over. However, after this Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh took over the innings and built a solid partnership. But in the 8th over, Mitchell Santner broke this dangerous looking partnership by dismissing Shashank.
After this, the Punjab team could not recover and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. The result was that the team fell short of the target and lost the match by 28 runs. Prabhsimran Singh scored the maximum 30 runs for the team. Whereas Shashank Singh contributed 27 runs.
All the bowlers of CSK performed brilliantly today. After contributing with the bat, Ravindra Jadeja also did wonders with the ball and took three wickets. Whereas Tushar Deshpande and Simarjeet Singh got 2-2 wickets. While Mitchell Santner and Shardul Thakur took 1-1 wicket.
Here are the top 10 funny memes of PBKS vs CSK match
Sir Ravindra Jadeja today #PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/x7vPOhcYw1
— Nidhi Jain (@nidddhiiiii) May 5, 2024
#PBKSvCSK@PunjabKingsIPL hlo Admin pic.twitter.com/sC0NtByce1
— Dinesh (@ani21314) May 5, 2024
Congratulations
CSKians #PBKSvCSKSantner | #Jadeja , Simarjeet | shardul | Tushar Deshpande pic.twitter.com/Kjjna3YxXl
— Lord Kartike 2.0 (@LordKartike) May 5, 2024
Csk win and go to third place
#PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/8HmJO5IzjO— Bhanu Beniwal (@Beniwal9602) May 5, 2024
No Chennai Super Kings fan will pass without liking this.#MsDhoni #Jadeja #PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/vmGURdOP2V
— Bhanu Beniwal (@Beniwal9602) May 5, 2024
No Chennai Super Kings fan will pass without liking this.#MsDhoni #Jadeja #PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/NsY3xmJfma
— Bhanu Beniwal (@Beniwal9602) May 5, 2024
No Chennai Super Kings fan will pass without liking this.#MsDhoni #Jadeja #PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/doBNQHQ8j7
— Bhanu Beniwal (@Beniwal9602) May 5, 2024
Can give one time 💛💛💛#PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/vKwSMI1UsT
— ItsGocool (@ItsGocoolhere) May 5, 2024
#PBKSvCSK pic.twitter.com/S63Ho492Iv
— Nidhi Jain (@nidddhiiiiiii) May 5, 2024
Jay Shaha to Preity Zinta 🤣🤫#PBKSvCSK #CSKvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/W6EjDlm7ku
— Iam Krrish (@IamKrrish01) May 5, 2024