PBKS vs CSK, Turning Point of the Match: The 53rd match of IPL 2024 was played between Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings in Dharamshala. Batting first after losing the toss, CSK scored 167 runs losing nine wickets in 20 overs. At one time the team’s score was 69 runs for one wicket in the eighth over. But then after this the team lost the remaining 8 wickets in scoring 98 runs.

Ravindra Jadeja played the highest innings of 43 runs in 26 balls. Daryl Mitchell (30) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (32) also played important innings. Rahul Chahar and Harshal Patel took 3-3 wickets for Punjab Kings. Chasing the target, Punjab Kings team could only score 139 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs, and Chennai won by 28 runs.

PBKS vs CSK, Turning Point of the Match- What was the turning point of the match?

Top and middle order flop performance

The main reason for Punjab Kings’ defeat was their opening batsmen not making partnerships and the collapse of the middle order. The team lost the wicket of Jonny Bairstow (7) in the second over itself. Then in the same over, Tushar Deshpande also sent Riley Rousseau to the pavilion for a duck. Punjab got a big blow with two big wickets in one over.

There was a partnership of 53 runs for the third wicket between Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh. But then due to the lethal bowling of CSK, the team lost wickets in bunches. Shashank Singh (27), Prabhsimran Singh (30), Jitesh Sharma (0), Sam Curran (7), and Ashutosh Sharma (3) were not able to perform well today.

Jadeja’s bowler attacked Punjab

Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs. He took the wickets of batsmen like Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran and Ashutosh Sharma. Tushar Deshpande and Simarjeet Singh took 2-2 wickets. Whereas Shardul Thakur and Mitchell Santner took 1-1 wicket.