Cape Town - The Chennai Super Kings made very light work of the Kings XI Punjab on Saturday, thrashing them by 97 runs as the bowlers easily defended the 192 the batsmen racked up.
Chennai lost only three wickets on their way to that near-200 score, with Brendon McCullum and MS Dhoni the main run-getters. Spinners Ravi Ashwin and Ravi Jadeja then saw KXIP to 95 for nine.
Chennai won the toss and opted to bat, and soon had 50 runs on the board, inside five overs. Dwayne Smith was the one to fall and break that stand, out to Anureet Singh for 26.