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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Five-time champion Chennai Super Kings will start its campaign in IPL 2026 with a match against Rajasthan Royals on March 30. CSK will be in the news this time because Sanju Samson is going to make his debut in the yellow jersey. Chennai team was at the bottom position in the points table of the last season i.e. IPL 2025. Rituraj Gaikwad’s army would like to change its fortunes this time. Ayush Mhatre had impressed a lot last year and this time Chennai Super Kings will have a lot of expectations from Karthik Sharma and Prashant Veer, who were sold for Rs 14.2 crore. See here when and with whom CSK will play its matches in IPL 2026.

List of all CSK matches:
March 30 – CSK vs RR – Guwahati
April 3 – CSK vs PBKS – Chennai
5 April – CSK vs RCB – Bengaluru
11 April – CSK vs DC – Chennai
14 April – CSK vs KKR – Chennai
April 18 – CSK vs SRH – Hyderabad
23 April – CSK vs MI – Mumbai
26 April – CSK vs GT – Ahmedabad
May 2 – CSK vs MI – Chennai
5 May – CSK vs DC – Delhi
10 May – CSK vs LSG – Chennai
15 May – CSK vs LSG – Lucknow
18 May – CSK vs SRH – Chennai
21 May – CSK vs GT – Chennai
Chennai Super Kings last became champion in 2023. At that time, CSK had defeated Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the final. After that, Chennai team has failed to reach the playoffs in both the seasons. This time Chennai will enter the field with the intention of becoming champion for the sixth time.
CSK squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), MS Dhoni, Sanju Samson, Dewald Brewis, Ayush Mhatre, Karthik Sharma, Sarfaraz Khan, Urvil Patel, Anshul Kamboj, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Prashant Veer, Matthew William Short, Aman Khan, Jack Faulks, Shivam Dubey, Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Mukesh Chaudhary, Spencer Johnson, Shreyas Gopal, Gurjapneet Singh, Akeal Hosein, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar