2024-05-19 18:00:54
Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bangalore, which has gained just one win within the first 8 matches of IPL 2024, has reached the playoffs. RCB defeated Chennai Tremendous Kings by 27 runs and secured a spot within the playoffs. That is the sixth consecutive win for Faf du Plessis’s group. Taking part in first, RCB scored 218 runs for five wickets. To succeed in the playoffs, he needed to limit Chennai to 200 or much less. Regardless of all efforts, Chennai group may solely rating 191 runs for 7 wickets. With this defeat, Chennai Tremendous Kings remained at fifth place within the desk. KKR, Rajasthan and Hyderabad have already made their place within the playoffs.
All RCB batsmen walked
RCB was profitable in reaching a powerful rating as a result of sensible efficiency of the highest order below the management of captain Faf Duplessis. Duplessis confronted 39 balls in his innings of 54 runs and in addition hit three sixes together with three fours. Other than them, Virat Kohli scored 47 runs in 29 balls whereas Rajat Patidar scored 41 runs in 23 balls. Cameron Inexperienced, Dinesh Karthik and Glenn Maxwell additionally scored at a strike charge of greater than 200.
Openers Kohli and Du Plessis had made a superb begin and scored 31 runs with none loss, when the sport needed to be stopped for 40 minutes as a consequence of rain. After the rain break, CSK employed spinners and the ball began turning as a consequence of which the batsmen discovered it troublesome to attain runs rapidly. Mahish Tikshna gave 25 runs in 4 overs whereas Santner gave solely 23 runs in 4 overs. Even after this RCB reached 218 runs.
Dhoni failed within the final over
Chennai had a really unhealthy begin and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad turned the sufferer of Glenn Maxwell on the very first ball of the innings. Daryl Mitchell may additionally rating solely 4 runs. After two wickets fell for 19 runs, Rachin Ravindra and Ajinkya Rahane took over the innings. Each of them performed pictures freely and made a partnership of 66 runs for the third wicket. Rahane turned the sufferer of Ferguson after scoring 33 runs in 22 balls. After this Shivam Dubey got here in and was struggling on the crease. In the meantime, Rachin Ravindra accomplished his fifty. He was taking part in pictures freely however needed to be run out as a consequence of poor coordination with Dubey.
Dubey himself was out within the subsequent over. Shivam Dubey, who turned Inexperienced’s sufferer, scored 7 runs in 15 balls. Faf took a tremendous catch and despatched Santner again. When he was out, Chennai’s rating was 129 runs for six wickets in 15 overs. From right here Ravindra Jadeja and Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the innings ahead. Chennai wanted 17 runs within the final over. Dhoni hit a six on the primary ball of Yash Dayal. However he was out on the second ball. Dayal gave just one run on the following 4 balls and took his group to the playoffs.