KL Rahul's sparkling 50 helps KXIP end their IPL 2019 campaign on a high

For match 55 of Indian Premier League 2019, Kings XI Punjab welcomed Chennai Super Kings on their home ground of Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Kings XI Punjab the toss and elected to bowl. The Super Kings played an unchanged side. KXIP made one change, bringing in Harpreet Brar in place of Arshdeep Singh.   (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

Punjab started strong as Sam Curran dismissed Shane Watson in the fifth over. Watson made just 7 as CSK were 30/1.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

After Waston's early dismissal, Suresh Raina and Faf du Plessis held fort as the two went about building the CSK's innings.   (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

du Plessis batted well and completed half-century in the 13th over as he nudged a delivery from M Ashwin for a single.   (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

Raina followed the suit and completed his fifty in the 15th over as he hit a delivery from M Ashwin for a boundary. The two fifties put CSK in a dominant position. After 16 overs CSK were cruising along at 143/1.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

Curran broke the Raina, du Plessis partnership as he got Raina caught by Mohammed Shami at short fine-leg in the 17th over. The two batsmen had put together a 120-run partnership. Raina made 53 off 38 as CSK were 150/2.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

du Plessis batted well for for his 96. His innings was studded with 10 fours and 4 sixes. In the 19th over a brilliant yorker from Curran clean bowled the CSK opener. Chennai were 163/3 when du Plessis got out.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

A superb last over from Mohammed Shami in which he took the wickets of Kedar Jadhav and Ambati Rayudu eventually restricted CSK to 170/5 in 20 overs.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

KL Rahul gave Punjab a blistering start as he hammered his way to a fifty inside first four overs. Such was Rahul's assault that off the 57 runs scored by KXIP in first four overs 52 came off Rahul's bat. (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

By his lofty standards, Gayle played a sedate innings of 28 from 28 balls but Punjab were cruising along in the chase.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

Harbhjajan Singh picked the wickets of Rahul and Gayle off the successive deliveries in the 11th over as Chennai tried to fight back. While Rahul blasted 71 off 36 balls, Gayle scored 28 . KXIP were 108/2 at fall of Gayle's wicket.  Harbhajan later returned to pick the wicket of Mayank Agarwal. Harbhajan finished with a spell of 4-0-35-3 (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)

However, Nicolas Pooran played a sensible innings of 36 from 22 balls as Punjab chased the down the total in 18 overs with loss of 4 wickets to end their IPL 2019 campaign on a high.  (Image: BCCI, iplt20.com)