Punjab Kings bowlers produced a formidable show to prohibit Chennai Super Kings to a 162 whole whereas bowling first within the forty ninth match of the IPL 2024 on Wednesday. Spinners Harpreet Brar and Rahul Chahar picked two wickets every as Chennai Super Kings witnessed an embarrassing collapse at MA Chidambaram Stadium.
In-form pacer Harshal Patel was surprisingly restricted to bowl only one over however the former RCB bowler stole the limelight with a superb catch to dismiss Sameer Rizvi. Not recognized for his sharp fielding, Harshal produced a formidable acrobatic sliding effort at deep third man.
Harshal stayed on the bottom to have fun the wicket with Yuzvendra Chahal‘s iconic celebration. Chahal was fast to observe Harshal’s antics and took Twitter to level out the PBKS bowler replicating his pose hilariously. Rajasthan Royals leggie even tagged Twitter proprietor Elon Musk in his submit and jokingly requested him to strike a copyright discover to Harshal Patel.
Punjab Kings have been fast to humour Chahal’s submit and replied with, “account hack mat karna Yuzi bhai.”
Meanwhile, Harshal conceded 12 runs off his solely over however was glorious together with his fielding effort. After a shocking catch to dismiss Rizvi, his throw on the final ball of the innings ended MS Dhoni‘s innings as effectively. Harshal is having fun with a red-hot kind with 14 wickets in 10 innings and sharing the Purple Cap with Jasprit Bumrah and Mustafizur Rahman after the forty ninth match of the IPL 2024.
Chennai Super Kings Playing XI: Ajinkya Rahane (substituted by Sameer Rizvi, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Daryl Mitchell, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Richard Gleeson, Mustafizur Rahman.
Punjab Kings Playing XI: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran (c), Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh (substituted by Prabhsimran Singh).
