CSK vs RCB Highlights IPL 2024, CSK won by 6 wickets.
CSK vs RCB Highlights IPL 2024, CSK won by 6 wickets. Finally the day has come when the most cash rich cricket tournament is about to begin. The most successful IPL team takes on the most lethal batting attack team of the league. Its Royal Challengers Bangalore takes on Chennai Super Kings at the M.A Chidambaram Stadium in the IPL opener. RCB has a very bad record against CSK in M.A Chidambaram Stadium. They only defeated CSK once and that too in 2008!
CSK vs RCB Highlights
Match started with a coin toss when the captain of RCB Faf du Plessis won the toss against Ruturaj Gaikward, the captain of CSK. RCB chose to bat on this neutral pitch. Pitch report already said that are no chances of dew today and pitch will behave same in both innings.
RCB Batting
Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis came to bat. Faf du Plessis took a good start for his team. He was dealing only in boundaries but Mustafizur Rehman’s slower ball outside the line of off-stump was a fuller and Faf could not time it properly and he got out. Rajat Patidar and Glenn Maxwell also got out cheaply. Powerplay ended and the pillar of RCB, Virat Kohli had played only 6 balls. He played his only six in 10th over and in 12th over he got out. RCB were 78/5 at 11.4 overs. After that Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik had a partnership.
Anuj Rawat scored 48 of 25 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. Veteran player Dinesh Karthik also played a vital role and scored 38 of 26 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. With a help of this great partnership, RCB total climbed up to 173 with the loss of 6 wickets.
CSK Bowling
The real star of first innings was Mustafizur Rehman who took 4 wickets at the economy of 7.25. He conceded only 29 runs of 4 overs. Deepak Chahar also took 1 wicket but all the other bowlers went wicketless. Ravindra Jadeja, although he went wicketless but bowled great . He conceded only 21 runs of 4 over at the wonderful economy of just 5.25.
Now 174 was the target for CSK batters.
CSK Batting
The new captain Ruturaj Gaikward and the young sensation Rachin Ravindra came to bat. It was the debut match of Rachin Ravindra. He took an explosive start and was looking in a hurry. He was breathing fire. Ruturaj was playing the anchor innings but he could not play longer and scored 15 runs of 15 balls. Rachin Ravindra scored 37 of 15 balls and hit 3 sixes and 3 fours. After the openers got out, Rahane and Daryl Mitchell took the responsibility and scored 27 and 22 runs respectively .
After them , Shivam Dube, the Impact player and Ravindra Jadeja had a 66 runs partnership which lead CSK to first glory in the tournament . Shivam Dube scored 34 and Ravindra Jadeja scored 25 of 34 and 17 balls respectively.
RCB Bowling
RCB bowling looked ordinary. No bowler in the lineup could create an impact. Cameron Green took 2 wickets and Karn Sharma and Yash Dayal took 1 wicket each but these efforts just went futile as Chennai Super Kings won by 6 wickets ( 8 balls remaining ) against star studded Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Match Summary
RCB scored 173 runs in 1st innings with the loss of 6 wickets . Anuj Rawat scored 48 runs while Mustafizur Rehman took 4 wickets. In 2nd innings Rachin Ravindra scored 37 runs and Cameron Green took 2 wickets. CSK won comfortably by 6 wickets in the IPL opener. Mustafizur Rehman was awarded with the player of the match for his amazing bowling. He took 4 wickets at the economy of 7.25. CSK gained valuable 2 points and started their IPL 2024 journey with a win while RCB will review their team performance and hopefully will come back strongly.
