How it all came crashing down

Chennai Super Kings 167 for 9 (Jadeja 43, Chahar 3-23, Harshal 3-24) beat Punjab Kings 139 for 9 (Prabhsimran 30, Jadeja 3-20, Deshpande 2-35) by 28 wickets

Mitchell Santner has a history of delivering big hits. In his second match for CSK, he hit the last ball for six to win the match. But as a left-arm spinner in a team that already has Jadeja, he tends to come off the bench. This was his 16th game for CSK in five years. He only came in because of Mustafizur Rahman's early departure and injuries to Pathirana and Chahar. Still, he is a player who knows his strengths and he played to them, bowling nice and tight on the stumps and asking the batsmen to hit him for the longer boundary, down the ground. That's how he got Shashank.

In the next over, the ninth, Jadeja removed Prabhsimran. In the next over, Simarjeet Singh got rid of Jitesh Sharma, and so on and so forth. Five wickets. Sixteen runs. Twenty-eight balls. PBKS kept trying to bat themselves out of trouble. They were unable to soak up the pressure, unable to bat in a different gear.

This is the kind of situation in which CSK thrive and prosper. Even when there came a point where Ashutosh Sharma was dropped very badly by Moeen Ali, they had Jadeja up their sleeve and he produced a wicket off the very next ball, Sam Curran fell to another big shot and then in the same over Ashutosh fell to a wild swing. That was 78 for 7 and that was the game.