CHEN­NAI– Nicholas Pooran played a key role in Luc­know Su­per Gi­ants’ record run chase as they over­hauled a mas­sive tar­get of 211 to stun Chen­nai Su­per Kings by six wick­ets in the In­di­an Pre­mier League Tues­day.

Faced with a re­quired run rate of near­ly 11 an over, Su­per Gi­ants pulled off the high­est suc­cess­ful chase at the MA Chi­dambaram Sta­di­um, with the left-hand­ed Pooran belt­ing a 15-ball 34 with three fours and two six­es.

How­ev­er, his knock was over­shad­owed by Aus­tralian Mar­cus Stoi­nis, the right-han­der clob­ber­ing an un­beat­en 124 off 63 balls with 13 fours and half-dozen six­es – the high­est ever in­di­vid­ual score in an IPL run chase.

With his side in trou­ble at 33 for two in the fifth over af­ter open­ers Quin­ton de Kock (0) and cap­tain KL Ra­haul (16) per­ished cheap­ly, Stoi­nis put on 55 for the third wick­et with De­v­dutt Padikkal (13) and an­oth­er 70 for the fourth wick­et with Pooran, to suc­cess­ful­ly re­build the in­nings.

When Pooran holed out in the deep off 21-year-old seam­er Math­ee­sha Pathi­rana (2-35) in the 17th over, Su­per Gi­ants still re­quired 53 off 21 de­liv­er­ies but Stoi­nis dom­i­nat­ed a 55-run, un­bro­ken fifth wick­et stand with Deep­ak Hoo­da (17 not out) to get his side over the line with three balls to spare.

Cap­tain and open­er Ru­tu­raj Gaik­wad had ear­li­er blast­ed an un­beat­en 108 off 60 de­liv­er­ies to pro­pel CSK up to 210 for four off their 20 overs, af­ter they were sent in.

The 27-year-old right-han­der count­ed a dozen fours and three six­es and post­ed 45 for the sec­ond wick­et with Daryl Mitchell (11), 52 for the third wick­et with Ravin­dra Jade­ja (16) be­fore adding a fur­ther 104 for the fourth wick­et with Shiv­am Dube whose 66 came from just 27 de­liv­er­ies and in­clud­ed three fours and sev­en six­es.

Su­per Gi­ants lie fourth in the stand­ings on 10 points with CSK one place be­low on eight.

CMC

Brief Scores: Chen­nai Su­per Kings 210/4 in 20 overs (Ru­tu­raj Gaik­wad 108 not out, Shiv­am Dube 66; Matt Hen­ry 1-28) lost to Luc­know Su­per Gi­ants 213/4 in 19.3 overs (Mar­cus Stoi­nis 124 not out, Nicholas Pooran 34; Math­ee­sha Pathi­rana 2-35) by 6 wick­ets