OK, he was run out chasing a second run off the last delivery. But the point still stands - MS Dhoni is yet to be dismissed by a bowler in the 2024 IPL. That's not to say PBKS didn't have his work cut out for him.
It can be risky business to bowl spinners at death. Teams increasingly do it, but not often as late as the 19th over or with a wrist-spinner with Rahul's relative lack of experience in comparison to the likes of Rashid Khan or Yuzvendra Chahal.
But Dhoni has not been the most fluent of batsmen against spin for some time now, and CSK ensure that he comes late enough to avoid having to deal with the turning ball. Of the 37 balls he faced this season before Wednesday, only three were spinners
When he bowled Rahul in the penultimate over of the innings with Dhoni on strike, it was a percentage move by PBKS. Chahar did his job by keeping the ball away from Dhoni's batting arc, towards the leg side. Three out of four balls were sent down outside off stump. The only time Chahar fired a delivery down the leg side was when Dhoni tried to create something by moving towards the off side, and that one missed the leg stump by a whisker.