18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs KXIP in Chennai

Admin April 06, 2019

18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs KXIP in Chennai

18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12
CSK vs KXIP in Chennai

The 18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs KXIP was played on Super Sat 06 April 2019 in MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai. Both have won 3 matches out of their 4 matches played. Chennai won the toss and elected to bat first.

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CSK's Inning of 18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs KXIP in Chennai

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Shane Watson and du Plessis who came into in place of injured Bravo gave a steady start to the team by scoring 54 runs in the powerplay without losing any wicket but in the 8th over Watson was departed by R Ashwin after scoring 26 runs (3 fours, 1 six) of 24 balls. Faf du Plessis played convincingly and scored a brilliant half-century in his first match of the season but had to depart after 54 runs (2 fours, 4 sixes) of 38 balls. R Ashwin sent back to pavilion two set batsman in the 14th over first du Plessis and in the next ball Raina on 17 runs of 20 balls. Then a partnership of 60 runs between MS Dhoni and Rayudu helped the team to set a score of 160-3 in 20 overs where Dhoni scored 37 runs (4 fours, 1 six) of 23 balls and Rayudu finally scored 21 runs (1 four, 1 six) of 15 balls and both of them remain unbeaten.

KXIP's Inning of 18th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, CSK vs KXIP in Chennai

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KL Rahul along with Chris Gayle came to open the inning for Punjab. In the 2nd over of match, Harbhajan Singh took 2 wickets by departing Gayle on 5 runs of 7 balls and Mayank Agarwal on a duck. KL Rahul batted well and built a partnership with Sarfaraz Khan and scored 110 runs in 15.3 overs and take the team close to the target and completed their fifties in the match but unfortunately, KL Rahul got out in the crucial moment after scoring 55 runs (3 fours, 1 six) of 47 balls and the Sarfaraz's score 67 runs (4 fours, 2 sixes) of 55 balls couldn't win the match for Punjab as they scored 137-5 in 20 overs and lost the match by 22 runs.

Harbhajan Singh picked 2 wickets conceding only 17 runs in 4 overs, Scott Kuggelejin who debuted in IPL picked 2 wickets in his first match and Deepak Chahar got 1 wicket.