The second match of IPL 2008 between the Kings XI Punjab and the Chennai Super Kings team was played on 19th of April 2008. This match was played at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium at Mohali in Chandigarh and was a Day / Night Match. It had started at 17:00 hours in the evening. The toss for this match was won by CSK and they had chosen to bat in the first innings. The batting line up of Chennai Super Kings was opened with Parthiv Patel and Matthew Hayden. The fighting flow of both the batsmen was seen with quick runs starting to come in. With 15 runs in 10 balls, Patel had a strike rate of 150, but it came to an early end at 2.4 overs to let Michael Hussey come in. Hussey then took over the charge of sending the ball across the rope with 8 fours and 9 sixes, taking the score up by 116 runs in a mere 54 balls showing a huge strike rate of 214.81! The first 100 runs came in 10.5 overs and after which the next century came even faster till the 17.6th over.
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Chennai Super Kings team batted for all of the 20 overs with 5 wickets falling to the Kings XI Punjab. Thanks to Hussey, the total runs at the end of the innings came to 240 in 20 overs averaging to 12 runs per over. Irfan Pathan took 2 wickets but gave a high economy rate of 11.75 per over.
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Kings XI Punjab team with opening batsmen Karan Goel and James Hopes. They had to chase a massive target of 241 overs in 20 overs. Both Goel and Hopes had taken a good start and stayed on as a ticking opening pair and the scoreboard went on to 56 at 5.5 overs, when Goel was dismissed by catch out by Patel on Gony's bowling. Hopes stayed on until 10.2 overs and contributed 71 runs to the scoreboard for Kings XI Punjab. They tried their level best to chase and complete the target of 241 but at the end of 20th overs, their score was 207. With the sacrifice of 4 wickets, Muralitharan from CSK gave the lowest economy of 8.25 and took 1 wicket.
What a match it was and Chennai Super Kings who won the match by 33 runs. The Player of the Match award was bagged in by Michael Hussey for the Chennai Super Kings team. It was a blasting and thundering victory with power packed entertainment by both of Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab where CSK got 2 points for the match.