Chennai Super Kings registered a 23-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore to open their account in the 15th IPL on Tuesday, with brilliant strokeplay from Shivam Dubey and Robin Uthappa coupled with spinners. Invited to bat, Dube (95 not out) and Uthappa (88 off 50 balls) scored unbeaten half-centuries, sharing a 165-run partnership studded with 17 sixes and 9 fours – the highest overall for the third-highest wicket of the season. Highest – Taking CSK to 216 for 4.
In reply, RCB were restricted to 193 for nine, with young spinner Mahesh Thekshana (4/33) and captain Ravindra Jadeja (3/39) taking seven wickets between them in CSK’s 200th IPL game. were.
With this win, the defending champions finally broke their four-match losing streak, while for Bangalore, it was their second loss in five matches.
Chasing an impossible 217, RCB lost captain Faf du Plessis (8) who, within the first five overs, became Thikshana’s first victim and star-batsman Virat Kohli (1), who was removed by Mukesh Choudhary. gave.
In-form Anuj Rawat (12) also fell inside the power-play after Thekshana was caught in front of the wicket.
The 21-year-old Sri Lankan spinner, who was picked for Rs 70 lakh in the mega auction, again clean bowled debutants Suyash Prabhudesai (34) and Shahbaz Ahmed (41) to take the game deeper with his quick 60. Tried. Run stand off 33 balls.
Thikshana cast Prabhudesai after the ball hit the inside edge and hit the middle stump and then used a carrom ball to dismiss Ahmed and cap the match-winning spell under lights.
Dinesh Karthik hit his 14-ball 34 but that was too little and too late as CSK breathed a sigh of relief with their first point on the board.
In the beginning, Dube and Uthappa scored scintillating half-centuries in RCB’s attack.
Earlier, invited to bat, Uthappa and Dubey showed their six-hitting skills as they advanced the innings after CSK posted 36 for 2.
While Uthappa’s innings hit nine sixes and four fours, Dubey also hit eight sixes and five fours in his unbeaten 46-ball knock.
Both Dubey and Uthappa posted their highest IPL scores to set up the match for defending champions CSK, who have been battling four consecutive losses and are still looking for their first win this season.
Uthappa took time to settle down and got his first boundary in the fifth over, a cut shot from Mohammad Siraj (0/37), before Akash Deep (0/58) scoring his first maximum in the next over.
Uthappa and Dubey hit a boundary each off Deep and then the left-hander launched Glenn Maxwell (0/29) for the first six of long-on.
The carnage began from the 11th over as the pair went through with hammer and tweezers and CSK posted 133 for 2 in the 15th over, with 73 runs in five overs.
Dubey conceded 13 runs in the 11th over off Wanindu Hasaranga (2/35).
Uthappa and Dubey did not spare any bowler in the 13th over with the help of three sixes off Maxwell and CSK scored 19 runs.
Continuing the attack, the duo punished Deep in the 15th over as it was raining fours and sixes.
Uthappa stepped up the attack after his half-century and hit Siraj for two sixes and a four in the 17th over, which came off 18 runs.
Deep again bore the brunt of Dubey, hitting two sixes and a four in the 18th over, as the 200 looked imminent. Deep conceded 24 runs in the 18th over.
Uthappa missed a deserving century as he fell in the final over, scoring 14 runs and then Dube smashed two sixes in the final over to ease the bowling team’s troubles to end the innings in style.
CSK lost Ruturaj Gaikwad (17) and Moeen Ali (3) cheaply. But then it was the Uthappa and Dubey show.
RCB badly missed the services of Harshal Patel, who left the bio-bubble after the death of his sister on Saturday.
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RCB players wore black bands in the match to show solidarity with Patel and his family.
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