CSK vs Pbks, Play of the Day: Shreyas Iyer’s match-winning knock against Chennai Super Kings

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 thanks to Sam Karan’s 88 runs. In response, Punjab achieved the target by losing 6 wickets with the help of captain Shreyas Iyer’s 72 -run innings.

Earlier, chasing the target of 191 runs, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer performed excellent batting. He fiercely classified CSK bowlers and made shots everywhere in the field. Iyer completed his fourth half -century of the season in 32 balls.

At one time it seemed that he would return to the team and return, but he became bold on a ball from Mathisha Pathirana. Before being dismissed, the captain played the captaincy innings and brought the team closer to victory. 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 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 started very bad and lost three wickets in the powerplay itself. However, Sam Karan and Dewald Brevis (32) played the team’s score to 100 while playing carefully.

Sam Karan presented the view of Atishi 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 batsman of CSK could do anything special. For Punjab, Yuzvendra Chahal changed the attitude of the entire match with four wickets in the 19th over.

Chasing the target, Punjab Kings made a simple start 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, Prabhasimran Singh and captain Shreyas Iyer batted with understanding. Both batsmen took the team beyond 100.

Prabhasimran Singh scored an important innings of 54 runs in 36 balls. 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.