The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) locked horns with each other at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore and the hosts came out swinging. After winning the toss, the CSK skipper, MS Dhoni decided that they will be bowl first citing chances on dew later in the innings. RCB has won their first game at home this season.
During the toss, the RCB skipper revealed that they have made a couple of changes to their squad as AB de Villiers and Umesh Yadav came back in the squad in place of Henrich Klaasen and Mohammad Siraj. On the other hand, CSK also made a couple of changes as Dhoni and DJ Bravo came back in the squad in place of Sam Billings and Karn Sharma.
Parthiv’s knock
Kohli was dismissed Deepak Chahar in the third over after getting smashed for a boundary on the previous delivery. After his dismissal, AB de Villiers and Parthiv Patel started building a partnership and they added 47 runs for the second wicket before the former getting out in the 7th over owing to the brilliant catch by Faf du Plessis. After his dismissal, Akshdeep Nath and Parthiv added 42 runs for the third wicket as Nath was dismissed in the 13th over.
WATCH – Du Plessis And Shorey Takes A Rebound Catch
After Nath’s dismissal, Patel and Marcus Stoinis failed to do much as first Parthiv got out in the 16th over as he was dismissed by Bravo followed by Stoinis getting out in the next over of Imran Tahir owing to a combination catch of Faf Du Plessis And Dhruv Shorey. However, with the help of some late fireworks from Moeen Ali, RCB managed to reach 161/7 in their quota of 20 overs.
During the chase, CSK had a rough start as they lost their veterans Shane Watson and Suresh Raina on consecutive deliveries of the first over of Dale Steyn itself. Watson was caught at first slip by Stoinis and Raina’s off stumps was uprooted by Steyn with a fiery yorker and he was dismissed on a golden duck. After that dismissal, Du Plessis and Kedar Jadhav were batting, but they also failed as both of them were dismissed by Umesh Yadav in 4th and 6th over respectively.
Final over Drama
CSK was reeling at 32/4 after the powerplay with Dhoni and Ambati Rayudu batting in the middle. They added 53 runs for the 5th wicket between Rayudu getting out in the 14th over. After his dismissal, Jadeja and Bravo failed to do much as they were dismissed in the Navdeep Saini in the 17th and 19th over respectively.
WATCH – Last Over Drama During RCB And CSK Game
However, Dhoni kept on smashing the RCB bowled still CSK needed as many as 26 runs in the final over and he smashed as many as three sixes and a four in the final over with them requiring two runs on final ball but they failed t get over the line and lost the game by just one run.
Brief Scores:
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 161/7 in 20 overs (P Patel: 53; R Jadeja: 2/29, D Chahar: 2/25) defeated Chennai Super Kings – 160/7 in 20 overs (MS Dhoni: 84*; D Steyn: 2/29, U Yadav: 2/47) by 1 run.
