Dharamshala: Chennai Super Kings defeated Punjab Kings by 28 runs on the strength of Ravindra Jadeja’s all-round performance in the first match of IPL played here on Sunday. Batting first, Chennai scored 167 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. Rabindra Jadeja scored 43 runs while Rituraj Gaikwad scored 32 runs and Darrell Mitchell scored 30 runs. Rahul Chahar and Harshal Patel took 3 wickets each. MS Dhoni was the victim of the golden duck. Chasing the target of 168 runs, Punjab was able to score 139 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. Prabhsimran Singh scored 30 runs and Shashank Singh scored 27 runs.

Jadeja took maximum 3 wickets for Chennai. Simranjit Singh and Tushar Pandey took 2 wickets. With this victory, Chennai has gained 12 points from 11 matches and is in the third place of the points table. Punjab is in 8th place with 8 points from 11 matches.