Chennai Super Kings have taken another strong step towards the playoffs by defeating Lucknow Super Giants. In this match played in Chepauk, Lucknow had scored 203 runs after playing first. In reply, Urvil Patel scored a half-century in 13 balls for Chennai. He scored 65 runs in just 23 balls. Chennai chased the target in the last over. This is Chennai’s sixth win this season.

The match was stuck in the end

While chasing the target of 204 runs, Urvil Patel had made the match one-sided, but in the end Lucknow made a strong comeback and almost overturned the match. At one time Chennai’s score was 150 in 13 overs, but 30 runs were left in the last 18 balls, and five wickets had fallen. Prashant Veer came as an impact player. Now it seemed that if one more wicket fell, Chennai would lose the match, but from here Shivam Dubey and Prashant Veer took the match till the last over.

Prashant Veer hit a six in the 18th over. A total of 9 runs came in this. Now 21 runs were needed in 12 balls. The 19th over was handed over to Avesh Khan. In this also Prashant Veer hit a six. A total of 11 runs came in this. Now 10 runs had to be scored in the last over. Shivam Dubey gave victory by hitting two sixes on Aiden Markram.

This was the whole story of this match

Chennai Super Kings has reached fifth position in the points table after winning 6 out of 11 matches. At the same time, Lucknow Super Giants are at the last position after losing 8 out of 11 matches. Lucknow Super Giants, who came to bat after losing the toss at MA Chidambaram Stadium, scored 203 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Josh Inglis played an inning of 85 runs in just 33 balls for Lucknow. He hit 6 sixes and 10 fours. Lucknow had scored 91 runs in 6 overs, but then the team faltered. 5 wickets fell at 130. Then from here Shahbaz Ahmed made a partnership of 50 runs in 32 balls with Himmat Singh for the seventh wicket and took the team to a huge score. Shahbaz remained unbeaten on 43 runs in 25 balls with 3 sixes and as many fours, while Himmat played an innings of 17 runs in 12 balls. Jamie Overton took maximum 3 wickets for Chennai. Anshul Kamboj took 2 wickets and Noor Ahmed took 1 wicket.

In response, Chennai Super Kings won the match in 19.2 overs. Sanju Samson made a partnership of 45 runs with captain Ruturaj Gaikwad in 3.4 overs. Sanju returned to the pavilion after scoring 28 runs in 14 balls with 2 sixes and 3 fours. From here, Urvil Patel played a stormy innings and scored a half-century in just 13 balls, which is the joint fastest half-century in IPL history. In this matter he has equaled Yashasvi Jaiswal. Urvil brought the team on the track of victory by making a partnership of 81 runs in 34 balls for the second wicket with Ruturaj Gaikwad. Urvil was out after scoring 65 runs in 23 balls with 8 sixes and 2 fours, while captain Gaikwad scored 42 runs in 28 balls with 5 boundaries. Prashant Veer made an unbroken partnership of 39 runs in 19 balls with Shivam Dubey and led the team to victory. Dubey remained unbeaten on 15 runs with 2 sixes in 7 balls, while Prashant Veer played an unbeaten inning of 18 runs in 12 balls.

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