A  Chepauk crowd that may have expected their side to return home with a win and go closer to the top of the table was shocked by the last-ball thriller that finished with Raza trailing Matheesha Pathirana for three quick runs. With Devon Conway smashing an unbeaten 92, MS Dhoni pushing their total to 200 with two sixes to end the innings, and them stifling Kings’ chase through the middle overs, CSK had almost everything going for them. However, they lost despite being largely in the lead through the final over due to Pathirana’s accuracy.

Raza and Shahrukh Khan failed to strike a single boundary against Pathirana’s dipping deliveries in the final over, which had nine runs to win. Kings needed three off the final ball after a single, a leg bye, a dot ball, and two twos off Yorkers and slower balls from Pathirana. In order to secure three and declare victory with his arms raised, Raza moved across and pulled a short-of-length slower ball over square leg, putting it precisely between deep fine leg and deep midwicket.

With the two points, Kings now shares a 10-point lead with three other teams and is in fifth position overall, only behind Super Kings in terms of net run rate.