: IPL 2022: Livingstones all-round show helps Punjab Kings beat CSK by 54 runs #IndiaNEWS Mumbai: Twenty20 nomad Liam Livingstone justified his Rs 11. 50 crore price-tag with a smashing all-round show

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IPL 2022: Livingstones all-round show helps Punjab Kings beat CSK by 54 runs #IndiaNEWS
Mumbai: Twenty20 nomad Liam Livingstone justified his Rs 11. 50 crore price-tag with a smashing all-round show while rookie seamer Vaibhav Arora announced his arrival on the big stage during Punjab Kings comfortable 54-run decimation of Chennai Super Kings in an IPL match here on Sunday.
Livingstone with a 32-ball-60 laid the platform but Chennai Super Kings bowlers made a brilliant comeback at the death, restricting Mayank Agarwal led side to 180 for 8 after 20 overs. Later, little known Himachal Pradesh seam bowler Arora (4-0-21-2) performed as if he owned the stage, dismissing Robin Uthappa and Moeen Ali with CSK managing only 126 in 18 overs at the end of the chase.
After his batting, Livingstone (3-0-25-2) then became man with a golden wrist as his leg breaks got him a couple of wickets and he also took the final catch to cap off a dream night. This is CSKs third defeat in as many games and unless Deepak Chahar makes a speedy comeback, things arent looking great for the Yellow Brigade and its de-facto skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. A couple of more defeats could really put them under huge pressure and within a sniffing distance of point of no return.
Arora got good support from his former SD College Chandigarh teammate Arshdeep Singh (2/13 in 2 overs) during the initial period in which his skipper Agarwal bowled him out. Rahul Chahar (3/25 in 4 overs) was steady during back-10 and his three wickets included the wicket of Dhoni. Arora didnt do anything fancy apart from pitching it fuller with the hint of away seam movement occasionally.
Uthappa tried a flick while Moeen without any distinct footwork dragged a delivery well outside the off onto his stumps. Skipper Ravindra Jadeja also met the same fate due to lack of feet movement. In a jiffy, CSK were 36 for five before Dhoni (23 off 28 balls) joined Shivam Dube (57 off 30 balls), who did entertain the Brabourne crowd with lusty blows but it was always a game of catch-up for them. Dhonis oft-documented struggles didnt do any good for CSK either as Dube had too much to do in too little time.
Fittingly, it was Livingstone, who capped off a fine day, removing Dube with an away going delivery and then dived full stretched off his own bowling to remove Dwayne Bravo. Before his exploits with the ball, Livingstone, one of the most destructive T20 batters across global leagues, finally came good with five fours and an equal number of sixes, sending the CSK bowlers on a leather-hunt during the initial overs. Deepak Chahars absence has severely handicapped Dhonis (the real skipper) options as rookie left-arm seamer Mukesh Choudhary (4-0-52-1) paid dearly for his inexperience coupled with jangling nerves.

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