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Punjab Kings’s Rahul Chahar is clean bowled by CSK pacer Shardul Thakur. Pic/PTI

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“The fast bowlers bowled well in the Powerplay. Tushar got two important wickets and then Mitch [Mitchell Santner] and me did the job in the middle overs.” Jadeja said it was tricky batting in the middle overs. “It was a day game, so the wicket was slow. As usual, it was expected because it was so hot. “It (the pitch) always seems flat in the Powerplay. But when the ball gets old, it does not always come on. When playing at a new venue, you don’t know how much it will turn or stop.

“My role as a batter is to build partnerships and then play the big shots towards the end. Sometimes, when we lose wickets in the Powerplay, we do not get momentum. In the matches we win, we play all phases well,” said Jadeja. Comeback pacer Tushar Deshpande (2-35) and impact sub Simarjeet Singh (2-16) also featured among wickets for CSK. Santner, who was playing his first match of the season, was brilliant during his tidy 1-10 from three overs. Having lost three of their last four matches, CSK thus returned to winning ways and jumped to third place in the standings.

Brief scores
CSK 167-9 (R Jadeja 43, R Gaikwad 32, D Mitchell 30; R Chahar 3-23, H Patel 3-24, A Singh 2-42) beat PBKS 139-9 (P Singh 30; Jadeja 3-20, S Singh 2-16, T Deshpande 2-35) by 28 runs

Injured CSK pacer Pathirana returns to Lanka

CSK’s Matheesha Pathirana’s outing in the ongoing IPL is all but over as the pacer will return to Sri Lanka to recover from a hamstring injury. The right-arm slinger played six matches in this IPL, picking up 13 wickets at an economy of 7.68. Pathirana last played for CSK during their 78-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he bowled two overs and picked up the wickets of Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen. Pace bowling all-rounder Deepak Chahar too is set to miss the remainder of the IPL with a niggle he sustained during the match against Punjab at Chepauk.

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