Dewald Brevis of South Africa struck a fifty to 22 balls while Chennai Super Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders from two wins on Wednesday, leaving IPL defensive champions at great risk to lose the Play offs.

Following 180 for win, Chennai slipped to 60-5 in sixth ago Break hit the 52 and the impact substitute Dube Shivam did 45 to run the team at home with two balls to save on Kolkata‘s the gardens of Eden.

Skipper MS Dhoni Hit one six when Chennai needed eight of the last and ended up at 17 with the number 10 anshul Kamboj hitting the four victory Andre Russell.

The result left the chances of Kolkata to make the play -off dependent on a thread as they have to win their two remaining matches and hope that other results will go their way.

“It was really hard,” The Skiper of Kolkata Ajinkya Rahane said about the loss. “We were 10-15 short, 185-195 would have been an ideal total. Bowlers bowed really well but tough to be on the losing side.

On the way forward, Rahane said, “Very simple. Try to win two by two, and then see what happens from there.”

The champions five times Chennai had already bent out of the Play off race.

Afghanistan Noor Ahmad Set the victory with his four victories held by Kolkata until 179-6.

In response, the openings of Chennai Ayush Mhatri and Devon Conway both fell for the ducks, but the IPL Urvil Patel debutant blocked the attack of Kolkata on his 11-top 31.

Spinner Varun Chakravarthy bowed Ravindra Jadeja but Brevis and Dubbe put on track back on their carefully worked stand.

Brevis took his time to go before he exploded 30 runs from Vaibhav Arara, reaching his fifty with three sixteenth and three four in a long one.

Chakravarthy quickly cut short Brevis Blitz, but Dube with his left hand then found Dhoni for the company.

Fans of Dhoni

The bears rejected Dube as Rinku Singh went up to a strong capture before taking another opportunity to dismiss Noor, but Dhoni and Kambo got the team in only their third victory in 12 games.

43-year-old Dhoni still remained the biggest draw for the crowd of Kolkata and the former India captain he played talking about close retirement, saying he would entertain his fans as long as he could.

“Many of them don’t know when it will be my last time, so they want to come and see me play,” Dhoni said.

“Once this IPL is over, I have to work hard for six to eight months to see if my body can take this pressure. (There is nothing to decide now, but the love and love I have seen is great.”

Previously Kolkata lost the space Rahmanullah Gurbaz early in 11 BC Sunil Narine (26) and Rahane, which made 48, put 58 runs to rebuild the cases.

Noor broke the attitude with the left -wing rotation to get Narine obstructed by Dhoni and three balls later caught Angkrish Raghuvanshi for one.

Rahane joined Manish Pandey, but was denied fifty by the left -wing of Jadeja, spraying an opposite cleansing to the backward point.

Pandey stayed firm and combined to add 46 with Russell, who blocked 38 of 21 balls before Noor hit him again to make the big shot long.

The player of the match Noor removed Rinku for nine and despite the presence of Manish Kolkata was eventually insufficient.

Noor moved to 20 wickets in 12 games along with the leading player of this season, Prasidh Krishna – Gujarat Titans Pace Bowler who also has 20 sculptures but in 11 games.

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