IPL 2020: Gaikwad, Jadeja help CSK beat KKR by six wickets in a last-ball thriller

Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a fine 72 while Ravindra Jadeja hammered 31* off 11 balls as Chennai Super Kings (CSK) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by six wickets in a last-ball thriller in Match 49 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on October 29.

Needing 173 runs to win, CSK made a solid start as Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shane Watson completed a fifty-run stand in the eighth over. But the partnership was broken soon after.

The 12th oversaw Gaikwad bringing up his second successive half-century, CSK crossing their hundred and Gaikwad-Rayudu completing a fifty-run stand.

But Pat Cummins and Varun Chakravarthy scalped a wicket each in the 14th and 15th over, dismissing Rayudu and MS Dhoni, respectively.

In the next two overs, CSK scored 18 runs and brought down the target to 33 off the last three overs, with seven wickets in hand. With 7 needed from the last two deliveries, Jadeja tonked two sixes as CSK sealed a stunning win.

Earlier, CSK's Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill made a watchful start as KKR scored 15 runs in the over to move to 48/0. In the next over, the two completed a fifty-run stand for the opening wicket.

However, spin bowling did the trick and KKR lost their three wickets by the end of the 13th over. KKR moved past hundred in the 15th over and eventually posted 172/5 on the board.

Brief Scores: Chennai Super Kings 178/4 (Ruturaj Gaikwad 72, Ambati Rayudu 38; Varun Chakravarthy 2/20) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 172/5 (Nitish Rana 87, Shubman Gill 26; Lungi Ngidi 2/34) by six wickets

Courtesy: www.iplt20.com