A week after his 111 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at this venue, Marsh unleashed his brutal power hitting on a hapless Super Kings pace attack and made short work of the 188-run target.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the halfway stage, Ruturaj Gaikwad\u2019s men would have fancied their chance of defending a decent total. The CSK bowlers, though, failed to hit the right lengths and paid the price.<\/p>\n
Marsh started by picking Mukesh Choundhary off his pads for a couple of boundaries in the first over to set the tone. Then in the fifth over, he cut loose, smashing Anshul Kamboj for four maximums and a boundary. The LSG opener charged down and smacked Kamboj over cover off the first ball, and it was enough to rattle the pacer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kamboj followed it up by feeding innocuous short-pitched deliveries without pace or bounce, which were duly dispatched over the ropes.<\/p>\n
In the final over of the PowerPlay, Marsh did not spare compatriot Spencer Johnson, swatting him over leg-side to race to his half-century off just 21 balls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By the time the Australian was dismissed run out at the non-strikers\u2019 end, he had brought the equation to nearly a run-a-ball. Nicholas Pooran closed it out in style when he meted out a similar treatment to Kamboj by punishing him for four consecutive sixes as LSG cantered home with 20 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
For CSK, the loss ended its three-match winning streak and, more importantly, dealt a huge blow to its Playoff chances.<\/p>\n