Captain Iyer played a captaincy innings of 72 runs
In the 49th match of IPL 2025, Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by 4 wickets. With this defeat, the team of Chennai Super Kings is out of the playoff race. Batting first, CSK scored 190 runs thanks to Sam Curran’s 88 runs. In response, Punjab achieved the target by losing 6 wickets with the help of captain Shreyas Iyer’s innings of 72 runs.
Earlier, while chasing the target of 191 runs, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer displayed excellent batting. He gave a tough lesson to the CSK bowlers and hit shots all over the field. Iyer completed his fourth half-century of the season in 32 balls.
At one time it seemed that he would return after winning the match for the team, but he was bowled on a ball from Mathisha Pathirana. Before getting out, the captain had brought the team close to victory by playing a captaincy innings. He played a tremendous innings of 72 runs in 41 balls. During this, Shreyas Iyer hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. He was also adjudged the Player of the Match for this amazing innings.
Punjab won by 4 wickets
Talking about the match, CSK batted first and scored 190 runs. The team had a very bad start and lost three wickets in the powerplay itself. However, Sam Curran and Dewald Brevis (32) played cautiously and took the team’s score beyond 100.
Sam Curran presented a spectacle of fiery batting and played a stormy innings of 88 runs in 47 balls. During this, Karan hit 9 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from this, no other CSK batsman could do anything special. For Punjab, Yuzvendra Chahal changed the course of the entire match by taking four wickets in the 19th over.
Chasing the target, Punjab Kings started steadily and the openers added 44 runs for the first wicket. Priyansh Arya scored 23 runs in 15 balls with the help of 5 fours. After this Prabhsimran Singh and captain Shreyas Iyer batted sensibly. Both the batsmen took the team past 100.
Prabhsimran Singh played an important innings of 54 runs in 36 balls. While apart from captain Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh contributed 23 runs. In this way, Punjab achieved the target in 19.4 overs by losing 6 wickets.
