{"id":511783,"date":"2026-04-04T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:26:09","slug":"ipl-2026-punjab-kings-beat-csk-by-five-wickets-as-chaser-dominance-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511783\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Punjab Kings beat CSK by five wickets as chaser dominance continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Punjab Kings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-237147\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets<\/a> to continue the trend of chasing teams winning in this year&#8217;s Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kings knocked off a target of 210 with eight balls to spare, meaning six of the seven matches at this year&#8217;s tournament have been won by the chasers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five-time champions CSK, who finished bottom of the standings last year and have now lost two from two this season, made a quick start as 18-year-old Ayush Mhatre hit 73 from 43 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Punjab fought back through the middle but CSK reached 209-5 with Sarfaraz Khan adding 32 and Shivam Dube 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Punjab openers Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh put on 61 in just 4.2 overs at the start of the chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They fell for 39 and 43 respectively but captain Shreyas Iyer struck 50 from 29 to push the visitors on as CSK struggled to break through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 12 needed from the final two overs, Shashank Singh and Marcus Stoinis secured Punjab&#8217;s second win, one that puts them top of the early table, in the penultimate over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Punjab Kings beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets to continue the trend of chasing teams winning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}