Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 24, 2021, 11:15 PM
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is facing Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL-2021 Phase-2 today. The match started with CSK winning the toss and electing to bowl. RCB batting first scored 156/6 and set a target of 157 runs in front of Chennai. CSK, running in excellent form, won the match at the loss of 4 wickets and made their name. With the victory in the match, the team has once again reached the top of the points table.CSK got off to a great start
Chasing the target, Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad gave CSK a good start. Both added 71 runs for the first wicket. Gaikwad, who was in good form, scored 38 runs off 26 balls and was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal. After his wicket, Glenn Maxwell du Plessis took 31 in the very first ball of his over. After the opening pair returned to the dressing room, Harshal Patel dealt a third blow to CSK by dismissing Moeen Ali (23).
Middle Order Weapons
RCB had a great start. Captain Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal also added 111 runs for the first wicket. At one time it seemed that RCB would easily score 200 but this did not happen. The team's first wicket fell in the form of Virat Kohli (53) and after that one wicket after another went on falling.
De Villiers 12, Maxwell 11, Tim David 1 and Harshal Patel returned after scoring 3 runs. Devdutt Padikkal played a brilliant innings of 70 runs for the team. Bengaluru lost all their 6 wickets in just 45 runs. Dwayne Bravo was successful in taking 3 wickets for Chennai.
30 minutes delay in toss
The toss started with a delay of 30 minutes and the match 45 minutes due to a sand storm in Sharjah. Sand storms are frequent in Sharjah and something similar was seen even today.
Chennai are currently second in the points table with 12 points from 8 matches. Victory in this match will again take him to number-1.
Raina weak in front of fast bowling
Suresh Raina has scored only 61 runs against fast bowlers in IPL 2021 so far. Strike rate is only 91. At the same time, against spinners, he has scored 66 runs with a strike of 183. That is, when Raina comes to bat, Virat can use Jameson or Siraj against him.
both teams
RCB - Virat Kohli (capt), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Navdeep Saini, Tim David, Mohammad Siraj, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal.
CSK - Faf du Plessis, Rituraj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood.
Chasing the target, Faf du Plessis and Rituraj Gaikwad gave CSK a good start. Both added 71 runs for the first wicket. Gaikwad, who was in good form, scored 38 runs off 26 balls and was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal. After his wicket, Glenn Maxwell du Plessis took 31 in the very first ball of his over. After the opening pair returned to the dressing room, Harshal Patel dealt a third blow to CSK by dismissing Moeen Ali (23).
Middle Order Weapons
RCB had a great start. Captain Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal also added 111 runs for the first wicket. At one time it seemed that RCB would easily score 200 but this did not happen. The team's first wicket fell in the form of Virat Kohli (53) and after that one wicket after another went on falling.
De Villiers 12, Maxwell 11, Tim David 1 and Harshal Patel returned after scoring 3 runs. Devdutt Padikkal played a brilliant innings of 70 runs for the team. Bengaluru lost all their 6 wickets in just 45 runs. Dwayne Bravo was successful in taking 3 wickets for Chennai.
30 minutes delay in toss
The toss started with a delay of 30 minutes and the match 45 minutes due to a sand storm in Sharjah. Sand storms are frequent in Sharjah and something similar was seen even today.
Chennai are currently second in the points table with 12 points from 8 matches. Victory in this match will again take him to number-1.
Raina weak in front of fast bowling
Suresh Raina has scored only 61 runs against fast bowlers in IPL 2021 so far. Strike rate is only 91. At the same time, against spinners, he has scored 66 runs with a strike of 183. That is, when Raina comes to bat, Virat can use Jameson or Siraj against him.
both teams
RCB - Virat Kohli (capt), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Navdeep Saini, Tim David, Mohammad Siraj, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal.
CSK - Faf du Plessis, Rituraj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood.