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.
Virat 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.
WATCH – Steyn Gets Raina And Watson On Consecutive Balls
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 and the former had a lucky moment in the fourth over of Umesh Yadav when the ball beat him and kissed the off stumps but bails didn’t come off.
Here is the video of the same:
lucky du plessis…!!https://t.co/CZG9KoFHZj
— Vidshots (@Vidshots1) April 21, 2019
On the last ball of the same over, Du Plessis was dismissed by Umesh Yadav owing to a brilliant runnings catch by De Villiers, who almost got collided with Nath. Here is the video of the dismissal:
Du plessis' wicket…!!https://t.co/ut51yzvHmd
— Vidshots (@Vidshots1) April 21, 2019
