CSK vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2024: Get the IPL updates and highlights from Friday’s match between the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Chennai Super Kings at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Royal Challengers Bangalore put in a lot of effort with the ball to bring their chase of 173 all the way down to the penultimate over, but in the end, Chennai Super Kings easily defeated the goal by a 6-wicket margin. In the closely contested match, Mustafizur Rahman’s four-wicket haul turned out to be the game-changer.
Royal Challengers Bangalore put in a lot of effort with the ball to bring their chase of 173 all the way down to the penultimate over, but in the end, Chennai Super Kings easily defeated the goal by a 6-wicket margin. In the closely contested match, Mustafizur Rahman’s four-wicket haul turned out to be the game-changer.
RCB go short to take the game long
RCB used the height of Alzarri Joseph and Cameron Green to attack CSK with a lot of back-of-length deliveries and short balls on a pitch that was not providing much help for the bowlers. They were challenging to push to the boundary and even gave the RCB early wickets. Daryl Mitchell and Ajinkya Rahane were both pulling too deep square leg. RCB made sure that the boundary-flow was stopped in the opening game by taking full advantage of the two bouncers allowed per over during the season. It was imperative that they took this action.
Why couldn’t they last the distance?
CSK was defeated by Shivam Dube and Ravindra Jadeja thanks to an undefeated 66-run partnership. Dube misjudged the pulls and felt uneasy against the short ball at first, but he was fortunate to see them drop in empty spaces. He and Jadeja eventually figured out a better strategy to counter the short ball, and he even managed to drive a couple of boundaries into the third man area before finishing with a huge pulled six to take CSK over the finish line.
Would 173 be sufficient for RCB?
Dinesh Karthik, who batted on the surface and thought it was great for batting, said that the answer is probably not. This came shortly after he and Anuj Rawat (48) shared a potentially game-changing partnership of 95 off 50 balls for the sixth wicket. The pair had hauled RCB from 78/5 to a total substantially closer to what was probably at that stage. Although the pitch behaves differently in the dark, CSK would not have objected to being instructed to pursue the target.
Quick Scores: Royal Challengers Bengaluru 172/6 in 20 overs (Anuj Rawat 48, Dinesh Karthik 38*) lost to Chennai Super Kings 176/4 in 18.4 overs (Rachin Ravindra 37, Shivam Dube 34*; Cameron Green 2-27) by 6 wickets
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