IPL ’26 Shreyas Iyer slams half century as PbKs defeat Defeat CSK by 5 wickets

Captain Shreyas Iyer slammed a 50 as he built on an excellent start by Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh as Punjab Kings defeated Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets, consigning CSK to their second defeat of the season.

Following a poor show with the bat against RR, CSK were bundled out for just 127, and a 15-ball fifty from Rajasthan took them home with 47 balls to spare. PBKS, meanwhile, started their campaign with a win over Gujarat Titans. Cooper Connolly’s unbeaten 44-ball 72 on his IPL debut helped them chase down Shubman Gill’s GT.

In head-to-head in IPL, CSK and PBKS have faced each other 32 times with both sides winning 16 times each.

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sanju Samson, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dube, Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Spencer Johnson, Shreyas Gopal, Khaleel Ahmed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Zak Foulkes.