IPL Live 2020 / Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 wickets

Zoom News : Oct 25, 2020, 06:53 PM
In the 44th match of the 13th season of IPL, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 8 wickets. In the match played in Dubai, Bangalore won the toss and batting gave Chennai a target of 146 runs. In reply, Chennai won the match by scoring 150 runs for 2 wickets in 18.4 overs. Rituraj Gaikwad scored an unbeaten 65 and Ambati Rayudu scored 39 runs.

Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team has won after losing three consecutive matches. With this win, Chennai have 8 points in the points table. At the same time, Bengaluru will have to wait longer to confirm their place in the play-offs. Bengaluru is in third place with 14 points. A win would propel him to the tournament playoffs.

Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad opened the innings for the 48 runs scored by Chennai in the power-play. Both gave the team a good start and shared a 46-run partnership for the first wicket. Du Plessis was out for 25 off Chris Morris. This was followed by Gaikwad and Ambati Rayudu.

Bengaluru scored 145 runs for 6 wickets

Bengaluru captain Virat Kohli's innings of 50 runs helped the team score 145 runs for 6 wickets. Kohli hit a four and a six during his innings. Sam Karan of Chennai got 3, Deepak Chahar got 2 and Mitchell Santner got 1 wicket.

Both the openers cheaply, both outbenders of Bengaluru, Aaron Finch and Devdutt Padikkal could not do anything special. Finch could score only 15 runs and caught Rituraj Gaikwad off the ball of Sam Karan. After this, Padikkal (22) was dismissed by Mitchell Santner. On his boundary, Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad caught a brilliant catch.

Kohli and AB de Villiers handled the innings after the early dismissals of the 82-run partnership between Kohli-de Villiers. There was an 82-run partnership for the third wicket between the two. De Villiers was dismissed by Deepak Chahar on a personal score of 39 runs.

Kohli completed 200 sixes in IPL Kohli completed 200 sixes in IPL. He is the third Indian and overall 5th batsman to do so in the league. Chris Gayle is at the forefront of most sixes. He has hit 336 sixes in 129 matches. It is followed by AB de Villiers (231), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (438) and Rohit Sharma (209).

Kohli's 39th FIFTY: Kohli made his 39th FIFTY in IPL. He equaled Shikhar Dhawan (39) of Delhi Capitals in the case of the highest number of fifties by an Indian batsman in the league. David Warner (46), the highest in the league, is at number one.

Bengaluru came down in green jersey

In the match against Chennai, Kohli's team landed in a green jersey instead of their traditional dress. Bengaluru plays a match every season in a green jersey. The team does this to make people aware of Green and Clean Earth. In 2019, in the 20th match of the season, Royal Challengers Bangalore played against Delhi Capitals in a green jersey.

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