Watch: Sam Curran Involved In Verbal Spat With Punjab Kings Management
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Sam Curran was involved in a verbal spat with what seemed like the Punjab Kings management and fans on his way back to the Chennai Super Kings dugout.
IPL 2025, CSK vs PBKS: Sam Curran wallking back after being dismissed (X and Sportzpics)
Sam Curran smashed his highest individual Indian Premier League (IPL) score during the 2025 season clash between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Wednesday.
The English all-rounder fought testing conditions to produce an imperious 88 as Yuzvendra Chahal took a hat-trick, to bowl out CSK for 190.
Curran’s first fifty of the season (88 off 47 balls, 9×4, 4×6) as he anchored the recovery process of his side from a precarious 48 for three in the power play.
With their backs against the wall, Curran teamed up with Dewald Brevis (32) to carefully plot CSK’s way back into the contest with a robust 78-run fourth-wicket stand and turned on the heat on PBKS’ bowling.
Until the 16th over, CSK coasted well at nearly nine runs an over when the England all-rounder picked Suryansh Shedge to attack.
The first two balls were struck for sixes over long-off and deep square leg, and on the third legitimate delivery, it took a splendid diving effort from Shreyas Iyer to save a certain third six in the over.
But Curran wasn’t done yet as he pierced gaps on the next two deliveries to get as many boundaries, eventually collecting 26 off the PBKS novice.
Curran’s onslaught forced PBKS’ strike bowler Arshdeep to resort to wide full tosses, which resulted in a tidy over for four runs but for which he had to bowl eight deliveries as two were wide deliveries.
Curran eventually fell in the 18th over, getting an edge while attempting to duck under a Marco Jansen bouncer, but not before producing a knock of spunk and substance from any batter in the famed yellow jersey this season.
But Curran was involved in a verbal spat with what seemed like the PBKS management and fans on his way back to the CSK dugout. Curran is a former Punjab Kings skipper.
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After that, Chahal, who was wicketless until the penultimate over, was hit for a six by MS Dhoni (11) but the bowler had him caught at long off on the second delivery. On the fourth, Deepak Hooda (2) played one meekly towards backward point while on the fifth, impact substitute Anshul Kamboj (0) was cleaned up. Noor Ahmad (0) tried to put one away but ended up miscuing his shot and Jansen came in from long-on to complete the hat-trick, which was the leg-spinner’s second in the IPL.
(With inputs from Agencies)