IPL 2025: Rajat Patidar, Josh Hazlewood Star As RCB Finish Chepauk Curse With Thumping 50-Run Win VS CSK

Having fought their solution to a aggressive 196/7, RCB utilized the right squeeze on CSK with early strikes and the five-time winners crumbled with none resistance, making 146/8.

CSK’s defeat to RCB within the Southern Derby in their very own “Anbuden” (Den of Love) was their first for the reason that inaugural version of the IPL in 2008.

RCB’s win got here courtesy a heady mixture of orthodox recreation of giving all of it with the bat and stifling the opposition with common wickets.

However the Royal Challengers additionally needed to thank CSK’s stunning lack of gumption as the house aspect by no means landed a punch in reply.

CSK by no means recovered from a poor begin which noticed them dropping skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad (0) amongst three wickets inside the primary two overs.

Hazlewood dealt a physique blow to CSK on the ultimate ball when he had in-form Gaikwad caught at deep sq. leg for a four-ball duck, off a high edge which flew excessive within the air.

CSK slipped to eight/3 quickly when Deepak Hooda edged one behind off Bhuvneshwar Kumar whereas trying to information the ball to 3rd man, which left the five-time champions in serious trouble.

Rachin Ravindra (41, 31 balls) and Sam Curran (8) did properly to arrest the droop however in discount they might not whittle down the asking price, which swelled to 13 runs an over.

Within the ninth over, Curran went after Liam Livingstone (4-0-28-2) however was caught at lengthy on by Krunal Pandya and it was evident at this level that CSK had been looking at a heavy loss.

The common fall of wickets by no means actually allowed Ravindra to take the aggressive route, and his resistance ended within the thirteenth over when he chopped Yash Dayal onto his stumps (2/18).

Dayal’s twin strikes within the thirteenth over harmed CSK as a lot as RCB’s Influence Sub Suyash Sharma’s wonderful spell, delivering a measly 4-0-32-0 to tie down the opposition batters.

Dhoni struck three fours and two sixes to make 30 not out off 16 balls to go previous Suresh Raina as CSK’s highest run-scorer in IPL historical past, however that was solely a minor comfort level.

Earlier, Patidar rode on his luck to make an important 51 and together with Tim David (8-ball 22) lifted Royal Challengers Bengaluru to 196 for seven.

Patidar was dropped thrice by CSK fielders however he made a lot of the reprieves to attain 51 off 32 balls (4x4s, 3x6s), offering his aspect a much-needed impetus within the middle-overs, whereas David’s late burst made up for a mid-phase droop.

Early fireworks kind Phil Salt (32 off 16 balls, 5x4s, 1x6s) and Devdutt Padikkal (27 off 14 balls, 2x4s, 2x6s) had masked Virat Kohli’s (31, 30 balls) battle however their dismissals left RCB in doldrums