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I hope you enjoyed today's commentary. This is the pair of Darpan Tikiya and Pradeep signing off. Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more sporting action.
That brings us to the conclusion of our coverage of Match 49 of IPL 2024. Punjab Kings would be delighted at notching up a 5th consecutive win over the mighty Chennai Super Kings. They pick up important 2 points that takes their tally to a total of 8 on the points table. There are 3 teams immediately above them on 10 points each. One of them has played an extra match too. Hence, it is a big boost. For Chennai, there are problems galore. The word is that Mustafizur Rahman is set to leave for international duty. Pathirana and Deshpande did not play today due to non-fitness and Deepak Chahar hobbled away after bowling two balls. What's more is that they face the same opposition on Sunday. Though, we know that if there is one team that knows how to bounce back, it is the Chennai Super Kings. Hence, Sunday would be an interesting watch.
Harpreet Brar (Player of the Match, 2/16 off 4 overs): Obviously, it was a good wicket to bowl on. Even Rahul bowled very well. It was a good wicket for spinners. I have been playing for 6 years around legends like MS and others. I was confident. I don't think of wickets. I aim to bowl a lot of dot balls and dot balls give me wickets. When there is something on the wicket, it helps and the bowler's confidence goes up.
Sam Curran (Punjab Kings captain): Very happy, anytime you come to Chennai, you want to take the two points, it's a special feeling, huge confidence booster for the boys. We lost all our home game, won all our away games, similar trend this time and any team that can pick the momentum at the backend of the tournament is dangerous, we have to win all the games and we're taking one game at a time and we're coming up against the same opposition in a few days time. It's pretty obvious when you come to Chennai, really hot, extreme conditions, lot of sweat, wet ball and winning the toss was huge. We tried something different, gave the new ball to Rabada and that set the tone for us, that sent the strong message to the bowling group, eased nicely in the powerplay, we thought nothing to lose today and KG did well at the start. Incredible, Chahar come back into the game in Kolkata, him and Brar were amazing, tried bowling something different to bowl him at the 19th over and to bowl such a legend like MS, shows the confidence he has. Well I think, tried something different with the spinners in the middle, pace bowlers going for plenty and tried something different and took them gamble to bowl in the end and picked up the wicket of Mo. That's the great thing, we start 1-0 up against them, but different conditions and take confidence from this, enjoy the wins and how we constructed the run chase, helps confidence. Spinners bowled well, KG bowled well and we take the two points and move on.
Jonny Bairstow gets the award for hitting maximum fours in the match.
Ruturaj Gaikwad also gets the maximum sixes award.
Ruturaj Gaikwad gets the award for picking up the most number of fantasy points.
Rilee Rossouw gets the award for the best strike rate in the match.
The presentation ceremony starts now.
Shiv: "It was amazing to see Punjab Kings win the match" - I hope you enjoyed the commentary, Shiv.