IPL History: Top 5 totals by Chennai Super Kings

Modified Mar 15, 2019 17:16 IST

#2 240/5 vs Kings XI Punjab at Mohali, April 19, 2008

Now, it’s time to travel back to the inaugural edition of the IPL. This could be considered one of CSK’s most memorable matches in the IPL.

CSK were favorites to win the tournament in 2008 and this match showed just how strong of a team CSK are when they took on Kings XI Punjab.

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. It was Mathew Hayden and Parthiv Patel who opened the batting for CSK. After losing an early wicket, Michael Hussey walked out to bat at number 3. From there on, it was the Hussey show.

Everyone else paled in comparison to Hussey on that day as he scored an unbeaten 116 runs in 54 balls. Suresh Raina who batted at number 5 also scored a small cameo (32 runs off 13 balls). Subramaniam Badrinath surprised everyone with a quickfire innings of 31 runs from 14 balls. CSK posted a huge total of 240/5 in overs.

Kings XI Punjab wasn’t ready to go down without a fight. In response to Chennai Super Kings’ total of 240/5, KXIP scored 207/4 in their 20 overs thanks to contributions from James Hopes (71 runs from 33 balls) and Kumar Sangakkara (54 runs from 33 balls).

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