"I had the belief in my bowling that they will let them score more than 200 runs. But we need to give them (Punjab) credit, they batted well," Dhoni said.
Dhoni said they surely had a chance to win after Suresh Raina came up with a stunning knock of 87.
"It was something we could have achieved, the reason for that is the way Suresh batted. In the middle overs there was some very irresponsible cricket by some of the most experienced international cricketers. We couldn’t make such mistakes in a game where the stakes were high," said the CSK skipper.
"One of the facts is one of our retained players, Dwayne Bravo we lost at the start itself, but we still made the playoffs, we did really well in the tournament," he added.