Chennai, April 4 -- Inept bowling by five time winners Chennai Super Kings (CSK) leaking runs in the power play set the stage as a strong batting of Punjab Kings (PBKS) comfortably crushed the home team by five wickets in their second IPL contest, thanks to skipper Shreyas Iyer's blistering 28th half century, at the M A Chidambaram stadium here on Friday night.

Replying to a decent and competitive 209 for five, the visitors, pummelled the inexperienced CSK attack and overhauled the target much comfortably with eight balls to spare scoring 210 for five despite losing a couple of wickets towards the end.

After the openers led by impact player Priyansharya and Prabhsimran Singh opened the flood gates, the rest of the batsmen including the sk...