Chennai reached number one in the points table after beating Bangalore, second consecutive defeat of RCB
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings: Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets in the 35th match of IPL 2021 played in Sharjah. This is the second consecutive defeat of RCB in this season. Bangalore had scored 156 runs for six wickets in 20 overs after playing first. In response, Chennai chased down the target 11 balls for the loss of four wickets. This is Chennai’s seventh win in 9 matches this season. With this, she has reached the first number in the point table with 14 points.
For Chennai, opener Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 38 runs in 26 balls with four fours and a six. On the other hand, Faf du Plessis scored 31 runs in 26 balls. He hit two fours and two sixes in his innings. After this, Moeen Ali, who came to bat at number three, scored 23 and Ambati Rayudu, who came to bat at number four, scored 32 runs. In the end, Suresh Raina remained unbeaten on 17 runs in 10 balls and MS Dhoni on 11 runs in 9 balls. Raina hit two fours and a six. While Dhoni hit two fours.
The bowlers had made the return of Chennai
After losing the toss to bat first, Royal Challengers Bangalore had a great start. But the Chennai bowlers stopped Bangalore from making a big score by bowling economical between 10 to 15 overs. Chennai bowlers gave only 28 runs between 10 and 15 overs. In the last five overs, Bangalore’s team could score only 38 runs. In this way, Bangalore, who scored 90 runs without any wicket in the first 10 overs, could only score 156 runs in 20 overs.
Captain Virat Kohli scored 53 runs in 41 balls with the help of six fours and a six. At the same time, Padikal played an innings of 70 runs in 50 balls. During this, five fours and three sixes came off his bat. After this, AB de Villiers, who came to bat at number three, could only score 12 runs in 11 balls with the help of a six. Along with this, debut man Tin David also went on scoring just one run. Glenn Maxwell also could only score 11 runs in 9 balls with a six. In the end, Harshal Paten got out for three runs.
Dwayne Bravo took the highest three wickets for Chennai Super Kings. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur took two wickets. Whereas Deepak Chahar got a success. Bravo conceded just two runs in the last over.
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