IPL 2022, RCB Vs CSK highlights: Bangalore beat Chennai by 13 runs

Harshal Patel continues and Pretorius deposits the first ball in the stands.

Pretorius backs himself for another six but fails to get the distance, GONE.

Theekshana smashes the 3rd ball for a SIX follows by 4 leg byes.

RCB win by 13 runs

Hazlewood bowls the penultimate over...

Dhoni holed out to deep mid-wicket in search of a big hit. With Dhoni's wicket, CSK's chances of making a comeback were left begging.

Simarjeet Singh joins Pretorius in the middle.

Hazlewood concedes 8 runs, including a boundary to Pretorius.

CSK 143/7 (19) CRR: 7.53 REQ: 31
Chennai Super Kings need 31 runs in 6 balls

Harshal Patel continues and Moeen Ali starts the over with a big hit towards deep square leg. 

Harshal deceives Moeen Ali with an off-cutter outside off and Moeen chips it straight to extra cover, GONE. 

Dwaine Pretorius comes at the crease and fails to score off the first ball he faced. 

Harshal concedes 8 runs in the overs.

CSK 135/6 (18) CRR: 7.5 REQ: 19.5
Chennai Super Kings need 39 runs in 12 balls

Josh Hazlewood comes into the attack and Moeen Ali collects a couple of runs off the first ball while taps the second towards the backward point pocket for a single. 

MS Dhoni nudges the second ball towards the deep backward point for a single. Moeen drives the third ball towards extra cover for no run. Hazlewood beats Moeen outside off. 

A single for Moeen to end the over.

CSK 127/5 (17) CRR: 7.47 REQ: 15.67
Chennai Super Kings need 47 runs in 18 balls

Harshal Patel comes into the attack and concedes only four runs in the over.

Ravindra Jadeja perished in a search of big runs. 

CSK 122/5 (16) CRR: 7.62 REQ: 13
Chennai Super Kings need 52 runs in 24 balls

Wanindu Hasaranga [2.0-0-22-0] is back into the attack.

Conway sweeps the first ball but fails to clear the deep square leg fielder, GONE. Jadeja joins Moeen Ali at the crease.

Moeen Ali smashes the last ball straight down the ground for a SIX.

CSK 118/4 (15) CRR: 7.87 REQ: 11.2
Chennai Super Kings need 56 runs in 30 balls

Maxwell continues and concedes seven runs, including a boundary to Conway.

Chennai 109-3 after 14 overs

Harshal Patel comes into the attack and Moeen Ali hits the 2nd ball for FOUR.

Conway drives the 4th ball through extra cover and takes a single off the next ball, thus completing his half-century.

Chennai 102-3 after 13 overs

Maxwell continues and concedes seven runs, including a boundary to Moeen Ali.

Chennai 92-3 after 12 overs

Hasaranga continues and concedes only two runs off the first five deliveries.

Conway smashes the last ball for a SIX towards the mid-wicket region.

Chennai 85-3 after 11 overs

Maxwell continues and concedes five singles. Maxwell took the wicket of Ambati Rayudu in the over.

Moeen Ali joins Conway in the middle.

Chennai 77-3 after 10 overs

Shahbaz Ahmed continues and concedes four runs off the first five deliveries.

Rayudu smashes the last ball for a SIX.

Chennai 72-2 after 9 overs

Glenn Maxwell comes into the attack and gets the wicket of Robin Uthappa.

Rayudu joins Conway in the middle.

Maxwell concedes three singles in the over.

Chennai 62-2 after 8 overs.

Shahbaz Ahmed [1.0-0-9-0] is back into the attack and concedes three singles.

Gaikwad throws his wicket away in search of a big hit. 

Robin Uthappa, right-handed bat, comes to the crease

Conway smashes the last ball for FOUR.

Chennai 59-1 after 7 overs

Wanindu Hasaranga comes into the attack and concedes one run off the first three deliveries.

Conway smashes the 4th ball for a SIX. A half-tracker from Hasaranga and Gaikwad ends the powerplay with a SIX.

Chennai 51-0 after 6 overs 

Mohammed Siraj continues and leaks 12 runs, including back-to-back boundaries to Ruturaj Gaikwad.

Chennai 37-0 after 5 Overs

Hazlewood continues and concedes three runs.

Chennai 25-0 after 4 overs

Mohammed Siraj bowls the third over and Gaikwad hits the third ball for FOUR.

Conway drives the 5th ball through mid-on for FOUR. 

Chennai 22-0 after 3 overs

Josh Hazlewood bowls the second over and concedes only three singles,

Chennai 12-0 after 2 Overs

Gaikwad and Conway open for CSK. Shahbaz bowls the first over and concedes nine runs, including two boundaries. 

Chennai 9-0 after 1 over

Pretorius bowls the last over...

Dinesh Karthik survives an LBW call thanks to DRS. Pretorius misses the yorker length by a few centimeters and Karthik deposits the second ball into the stands.

Karthik chips the third ball over mid-off for a couple of runs. Karthik wallops the 4th ball towards the cow-corner pocket for a SIX.  

Harshal Patel gets runout off the 5th ball. Karthik collects a couple of runs off the last ball.

Bangalore 173-8 after 20 overs

Theekshana bowls the penultimate over and Lomror holed out the low full toss straight to long-on.

Wanindu Hasaranga arrives at the crease and throws his wicket away in search of a big hit. 

Shahbaz Ahmed arrives at the crease and collects a single off the first ball he faced. 

Dinesh Karthik collects a single off the 5th ball. Theekshana cleans up Shahbaz Ahmed off the last delivery.

Bangalore 157-7 after 19 overs

Pretorius bowls the 18th over...

Lomror smashes the first ball straight down the ground for FOUR and collects a couple of runs. 

Lomror collects yet another couple of runs as Jadeja drops his catch at deep extra cover.

Lomror slog-sweeps the 4th ball for a SIX towards the cow-corner region.

Dinesh Karthik taps the last ball in front of square for a couple of runs.

Bangalore 155-4 after 18 overs 

Maheesh Theekshana continues and concedes only six runs, including a boundary to Dinesh Karthik.

Bangalore 137-4 after 17 overs

Dwaine Pretorius comes into the attack and Rajat Patidar holed onto deep square leg in search of a big hit.

Mukesh takes a brilliant catch to send Patidar packing.

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Dinesh Karthik joins Lomror in the middle. 

Lomror hits the last ball for FOUR.

Bangalore 131-4 after 16 overs

Maheesh Theekshana [1.0-0-6-0] is back into the attack and a single each has been taken off the first two deliveries.

Rajat smashes the third ball straight down the ground for FOUR. 

Mahipal Lomror sweeps the last ball of the over for a SIX.

Bangalore 123-3 after 15 overs

Moeen Ali continues and Lomror smashes the first ball for FOUR.

Moeen concedes 11 runs in the over.

Bangalore 110-3 after 14 overs

Jadeja continues and concedes four singles.

Bangalore 99-3 after 13 Overs

Moeen Ali continues and Lomror collects a single off the first ball.

Rajat Patidar advances down the wicket and hits towards the cow corner region for a SIX. 

Moeen Ali concedes 11 runs in the over.

Bangalore 95-3 after 12 overs

Jadeja continues and concedes five singles.

Bangalore 84-3 after 11 overs

Moeen Ali continues and concedes only three runs before he cleaned up Virat Kohli off the 5th delivery.

Rajat Patidar joins Mahipal Lomror in the middle.

Bangalore 79-3 after 10 Overs

Jadeja continues and starts the over with FOUR leg byes. 

Kohli smashes the 5th ball towards the third man for FOUR. 

Glenn Maxwell gets run out off the last delivery. A big blow for Royal Challengers Bangalore

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Bangalore 76-2 after 9 Overs

Moeen Ali comes into the attack and gets the wicket of RCB captain Faf du Plessis.

Faf tries to go for a biggie but fails to get the desired distance as Jadeja completes the catch.

Glenn Maxwell joins Virat Kohli in the middle. 

Bangalore 66-1 after 8 Overs

Ravindra Jadeja comes into the attack and concedes five singles.

Bangalore 62-0 after overs

Maheesh Theekshana comes into the attack and concedes six singles.

Bangalore 57-0 after 6 Overs

Mukesh Choudhary continues and du Plessis drives the first ball straight down the ground for FOUR.

du Plessis edges the third ball through the vacant slip cordon for FOUR. The RCB captain deposits the last ball into the stands for a SIX.

Mukesh concedes 18 runs in the over.

Bangalore 51-0 after 5 Overs

Simarjeet Singh continues and edges the second ball through the slip cordon for FOUR while flicks the next towards deep backward square leg for three runs.

Virat Kohli smacks the last ball towards the extra cover boundary for a SIX.

Bangalore 33-0 after 4 overs

Mukesh Choudhary continues and concedes six runs, including a boundary to Faf du Plessis.

Bangalore 20-0 after 3 Overs

Simarjeet Singh, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack and concedes 8 runs, including a boundary to Kohli.

Bangalore 14-0 after 2 Overs

Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis open the innings for Bangalore. Mukesh Choudhary bowls the first over and concedes six runs, including a boundary.

Bangalore 6-0 after 1 Over

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Moeen Ali, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius, Simarjeet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Maheesh Theekshana

Moeen Ali comes in for Mitchell Santner

MS Dhoni wins the toss and elects to bowl first

Moeen was seen in the nets yesterday. If he is match-fit he could be back in place of Mitchell Santner. If Dwayne Bravo is fit, he could take Dwaine Pretorius's place

CSK Squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Mitchell Santner, Dwaine Pretorius, Simarjeet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Maheesh Theekshana, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Tushar Deshpande, Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Subhranshu Senapati, Prashant Solanki, Matheesha Pathirana, Bhagath Varma, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, KM Asif

RCB Squad: Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Anuj Rawat, David Willey, Siddarth Kaul, Karn Sharma, Suyash Prabhudessai, Jason Behrendorff, Chama V Milind, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Akash Deep, Aneeshwar Gautam.

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It is subtly drier, more grass has taken off. Spinners generally tend to have a massive say in Pune. It is about the pacers. More slower balls are now being bowled.

Chennai Super Kings have dominated the tie and have won 20 matches out of the 30 played between the two teams including the one played in IPL 2022

In Kohli (186 runs in 10 games) and skipper Du Plessis (278 from 9 games), RCB have one of the scariest of opening pairs but it hasn't really translated into big performances.

In case of Kohli, his form of late has been so bad that one can't really blame him for taking his time to score runs.

However, nearly nine of the 20 overs consumed for 58 runs will never be considered as a performance that can help the team.

Dhoni's return as CSK skipper replacing an out-of-sorts and more so bereft of ideas Ravindra Jadeja, proved beneficial as they outscored a formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad, keeping their campaign alive with six points from nine games.

While RCB are still on fifth place with 10 points from as many games, they seemed to have lost a bit of momentum with three back-to-back defeats primarily due to shoddy batting shows.

They have been all-out for season's lowest score --68 -- and have also failed to chase a modest target of 145 in another game.

Even in their last game versus Gujarat Titans, Kohli's 58 off 53 balls was one of the reasons that RCB failed to score more than 170, which was below-par on a good batting track.

In nine games that CSK have played so far, there hasn't been a single bowler (pacers and spinners), who has bowled at an economy rate of less than 7.50 runs an over. The best economy rate is of Mahesh Theeksana (7.54) while Dwayne Bravo (14 wickets) and Mukesh Choudhary (11 wickets) have had poor economy rates of 8.73 and 9.82 runs per over average.

Chennai Super Kings' fragile bowling vis-a-vis Royal Challengers Bengaluru's struggling batting line-up put the sides on an even keel as the two heavyweights face-off in an important mid-table clash of the IPL today

In cricket, when two strong and equally performing teams have a match-up, it promises a great contest but when two sides with specific weak links are pitted against each other it makes the contest all the more exhilarating.

Sample this. In 10 games that RCB has played so far, only six half-centuries have been recorded and out of them, two belong to skipper Faf du Plessis, which is a testimony to a below-par batting show in the tourney.

Chennai Super Kings have had a change in captaincy as MS Dhoni's impact on the game was noticeable in their last outing. Ruturaj Gaikwad is back in form and will be confident to score a few more runs against RCB despite missing out on a hundred in his previous game. TAP HERE TO WATCH THE FULL PREVIEW

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