CSK vs RCB, IPL 2024: Mustafizur dents Bengaluru batting as Chennai triumphs in season opener

Chennai Tremendous Kings did ‘CSK issues’ and Royal Challengers Bengaluru did ‘RCB issues’ because the seventeenth version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked off in grand vogue on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium right here on Friday.

Chasing a middling 174, Rachin Ravindra stepped into the breach of his injured Kiwi teammate Devon Conway with a chancy however brisk 15-ball 37 that grew in conviction.

Beginning off with a backside edge 4 after which a prime edge that sailed for six, Ravindra stamped his authority with two imperious pulls earlier than he swept straight into the palms of deep square-leg.

Ajinkya Rahane and Daryl Mitchell’s breezy twenties had been minimize quick by two quick deliveries by Cameron Inexperienced, but when RCB sensed a comeback with the autumn of these two wickets, Shivam Dube and Ravindra Jadeja decisively shut the door on it as CSK prolonged its unbeaten run at Chepauk in opposition to the Bengaluru aspect with a six-wicket win.

CSK’s Rachin Ravindra performs a shot throughout the IPL Cricket match between CSK vs RCB at MAC Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
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The maxim ‘previous habits die laborious’ acquired a rousing endorsement on the innings break, as CSK and RCB learnt it might want greater than a management change or a rebranding train to shake off some issues from the previous.

CSK isn’t recognized for thriving on a world-class tempo battery however can maintain its personal with its artful use of restricted sources. It has additionally developed a status of bringing out one of the best from gamers who haven’t discovered overwhelming success with different franchises. It wasn’t an excessive amount of of a shock that, after juggling 4 groups throughout six seasons within the Indian Premier League (IPL), Mustafizur Rahman produced his greatest figures within the league on his debut for CSK, curbing Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s prime order may in a single over.

Rahman made two inroads in his first over within the yellow jersey, outwitting Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar together with his variations. Du Plessis, who was in imperious contact on the offside, sliced a slower one to deep level, the place Rachin Ravindra took a tidy catch diving ahead, whereas Patidar fetched a wobble-seam supply solely to edge it behind to Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

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The 2 fast wickets got here after Du Plessis laid into Deepak Chahar’s second over with 4 boundaries, preying on the full-length deliveries with uppish drives after which punishing the shorter stuff with a slap over cowl and a pull to the square-leg fence. From the opposite finish, Tushar Deshpande missed his traces early, and the RCB skipper capitalised with two fours off one over, taking his aspect to 33 in three overs, with Virat Kohli having confronted one ball.

Nevertheless, as soon as Chahar made amends by nicking off Glenn Maxwell for a golden duck after Rahman’s double blow, RCB discovered itself in acquainted territory with its vaunted prime order blown away.

Kohli, whose first and solely boundary within the match got here within the tenth, over when Maheesh Theekshana dropped one quick, staged a quick resistance with Cameron Inexperienced, including on 35 runs off as many balls as CSK exerted its routine spin stranglehold with Ravindra Jadeja and Theekshana wheeling away from each ends.

Rahman’s second over snapped the monotony, as Kohli fell to a stupendous relay catch that concerned Ajinkya Rahane and Rachin Ravindra within the square-leg area whereas Inexperienced paid the value for reducing too late whereas exposing his stumps.

However Matheesha Pathirana’s damage got here to hang-out CSK on the loss of life, with Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik’s 95-run partnership off 50 balls hauling RCB to a serviceable 173.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s batters Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat throughout the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match between Chennai Tremendous Kings and Royal Challengers Bengaluru
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Rahman and Deshpande leaked 57 runs within the final 4 overs between them, as predictability and poor execution value them. Deshpande’s lack of ability to land the yorkers or the bouncers successfully noticed him going for 25 runs off the 18th over.

One other acquainted sight ended RCB’s innings as Dhoni effortlessly hit the stumps off the ultimate supply as the group erupted in jubilation.

With Dhoni additionally aiding Gaikwad, stationed at mid-off, and fine-tuning the sector placements within the deep that resulted within the downfall of Du Plessis and Kohli, there was loads of CSK of the previous even within the new period.