The 17th match of the 11th season of IPL was played between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Pune today. In today's match, Rajasthan won the toss and decided to bowl first. Earlier, batting first, Chennai lost 4 wickets in 20 overs and scored a huge score of 204 runs. Rajasthan got the target of 205 runs to win. Most runs came from opener Shane Watson’s bat. He made his third century of IPL carrier . Earlier in IPL 2013 and IPL 2015 he hit the first and the second century respectively.
Earlier IN the 17th match , Watson made his third century of IPL career in 51 balls. He scored 106 runs in 57 balls. Rayudu, 12, Raina, 46, while Dhoni contributed 5 runs. Shreyas Gopal took 3 wickets while Ben took 2 wickets.
Rajasthan was not able to cahse the target and defeted by with huge margin from Chennai and it scored 140 runs only. The Chennai bowlers bowled very well and none of the Rajasthan batsmen could play a big innings here. Stokes 45 for Rajasthan, Butler 22 and captain Rahane contributed 16 runs. From Chennai, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Karn Sharma and Bravo got 2-2 while Watson and Imran Tahir got 1-1.
