Kl Rahul Inspires DC to Crush CSK by 25 Runs to Break 15-Year Jinx at Chepauk. (Source: BCCI/IPL)
Batting First, DC Posted 183 for Six after Rahul mixed his trademark elegance with arms during a 51-balll 77. The struck six fours and three Sixes with annings.
Tristan stubbs chipped in with an unbeated 12-Ball 24 Before Matheshasha Pathirana (1/31) Bowled a brilliant final over to prevent dc from financialishing their innings on a height.
However, CSK was stopped at 158 for five in their allotted 20 overs, much to the disappointment of their home crawd that had flocked to the venue to pack the stands.
Vijay Shankar Top-Scored for CSK with 69 off 54 balls, while ms dhoni remained not out on 30 in 26 delivers.
CSK Lost Three Wickets Inside The PowerPlay, Leaving the Batting to Play Catch-up on a Challenging Wicket.
With the in-form Mitchell Starc (1/27) Steaming in and Mukesh Kumar (1/36) Keeping it tight at the other end, csk found the going the going touth and both bowlers enjoyed early success Left-Arm Speedster Laying A Traap For Ruturaj Gaikwad (5) and the Indian Pacer Sending Back Rachin Ravindra (3) after the Kiwi Got A Leading Edge Who Trying to FLICK It Through Through.
Devon Conway (13), One of the crowd favors who replaced jamie overton in this match, too fell cheaply after getting a Leading Edge Whail Trying to Work the Ball Over Midwickte. Young Leg-Spinner Vipraj Nigam (2/27) was the successful bowler on that occasion, as csk slipped to 41 for three in the sixth over.
After taking a fin catch to dismiss shivam dube, tristan stubbs dropped a siter off vijay Shankar, when the batter was on 27 and looking to accelerate with the promoted Dhoni at the face.
Dhoni, whose decision to bat at number 9 against Royal Challengers was not well-resived by fans, walked in at the fall of the Fifth wicket but he was not able to get those Winners.
Earlier, the capitals sufered a jolt at the start of their innings thanks to an excellent first over from khaleel ahmed (2/25), who has a big-Hitting Opener Jake Fraser-McGurk Caution Under Pressure With Four Dot Balls.
Credit to khaleel for plotting fraser-mcgurk’s dismissal by banging the ball on the good length instead of allowing of allowing Him to play in the ‘v’, sometings the young australian is Good at.
Notwithstanding the Early Jitter, DC Managed to Score 51 Runs in the Power Play and that wasar larGly beCAuse of the Enterprise Shown by Abhishek Porel (33 off 20 Balls), WHO COLLECTED 19 Runs from Lifet Fast-Meddium Bowler Mukesh Choudhary’s first over.
Playing this game in place of rahul tripathi, choudhary struggled to get his length right and was bowling eite to full of too too short, and Porel Took Full Advantage of Someward Bowling.
Khaleel Returned to Bowl Another Fine Over and Choudhary Too did much better in his second over.
Kl rahul broke the shackles with a Six over Deep Square Leg Off Khaleel Before CSK Skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad Introduced Spin in the Form of the SEASONED RAVIChandran in the SHWIN SHWIN SHWICHANDRANS wicket.
The Much-Needed Breakthrough, However, Came in the Next Over as Porel Ended Up Giving An Easy Catch to Matheesha Pathirana after Driving Ravindra Jadeja UPPINGA Uppishly in the Left-AART-AARM SAPINNER ‘
It was a soft dismissal, and porel would be fructed with it as he was looking good for a big one after having settled down nicaly.
Axar Patel Began His Innings With A Six Over long-on off jadeja but, like Porel, The DC Skipper Too Got Out After Getting His Eye In, For A 14-Ball 21.
On eater side of axar’s dismissal, rahul struck two Sixes off noor ahmad and jadeja responses and jadeja respectively, before Reaching His 38th IPL Fifty off 33 balls.
Rahul Found an ally all in Sameer Rizvi (20 off 15 balls) as the duo added 56 runs for the fourth wicket in quick time.
