Currently, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are locking horns with each other at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. 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 had a rough start batting first as they lost their skipper, Virat Kohli in the third over itself.
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.
WATCH – Faf du Plessis Took A Steady Catch To Dismiss AB de Villiers
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. Akshdeep Nath and Parthiv added 42 runs for the third wicket as Nath was dismissed in the 13th over.
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.
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Shorey and Du Plessis did something spectacular to dismiss Stoinis, who was looking dangerous for CSK. Stoinis heaved it down the ground, Faf held his balance at the fence and scooped it up towards Shorey, who was close by to take it. Credit to Shorey as well not to distract Faf and also stood close by in case something like that happened. It was a superb presence of mind from Faf to throw the ball away in the nick of the time.
Here is the video of the dismissal:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1120011144880484352
Meanwhile, CSK has restricted RCB to 161/7. Parthiv Patel with 53 was the top-scorer. Bravo, Chahar, and Jadeja with two wickets apiece were the pick of the bowlers.
