MS Dhoni on Sunday affected an acrobatic run out to dismiss Punjab Kings‘ Bhanuka Rajapaksha. The Chennai Super Kings managed to contain Mayank Agarwal and co to 72/2 in the powerplay at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. 

Former CSK captain Dhoni ran out the Sri Lankan on the second ball of the second over. Rajapaksha nudged Chris Jordan towards long-on, left of the bowler. He wanted a run. But Shikhar Dhawan on the other end was not interested. In a mix up, the batsman missed the non-striker’s call. And in the meantime, Jordan collected the ball and threw it towards the striker’s end. Dhoni, who was quite far from the stumps, sprinted, anticipated the bounce and pushed the ball, mid air, towards the stumps. The umpire went upstairs but Dhoni and CSK knew than Rajapaksha was short by some margin. 

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Bhanuka Rajapaksha’s wicket left Punjab at 14/2. The Sri Lankan hard-hitter scored nine runs in five balls with the help of a six. He has scored 72 runs in two games so far with a strike rate of 121. 

Liam Livingstone hit three boundaries and two maximums in the fifth over to take Mukesh Choudhary for 26 runs. Shikhar Dhawan then hit three boundaries in Dwayne Bravo’s over to take the powerplay total to 72- the second-highest this season. 

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CSK won the toss and elected to bowl first. While PBKS brought in pacer Vaibhav Arora in place of left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar, keeper-batter Jitesh Sharma replaced all-rounder Raj Angad Bawa.

For CSK, Chris Jordan came in place of Tushar Deshpande.

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Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa(w), Liam Livingstone, Shahrukh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Odean Smith, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Vaibhav Arora

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja(c), MS Dhoni(w), Shivam Dube, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Dwaine Pretorius, Mukesh Choudhary.