Chennai Tremendous Kings’ cup of woes overflowed on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Sunday as Royal Challengers Bengaluru handed the five-time IPL champion a 43-run defeat.
After a Tim David-inspired RCB set a frightening 251-run goal, the guests folded for 207 to lose three out of three this season.
The Males in Yellow by no means recovered from 30 for 3, and the truth that 4 of its top-five fell for single-digit scores advised the story.
A seventh-wicket partnership price 57 runs between Prashant Veer (43, 29b, 6×4, 1×6) and Jamie Overton (37, 16b, 4×4, 2×6) was solely mildly threatening.
Sarfaraz Khan (50, 25b, 8×4, 2×6) displayed essentially the most intent, however as soon as he was out stumped to a Krunal Pandya supply that held its line, no matter little hope CSK had went up in smoke.
Earlier, an unchanged RCB that was requested to bat first was undeterred by the sluggish pitch and an equally sluggish outfield.
Tim David scored an unbeaten 70 off simply 25 balls.
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MURALI KUMAR Okay
Tim David scored an unbeaten 70 off simply 25 balls.
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MURALI KUMAR Okay
Simply 11 runs got here from the primary two overs and it took till the fourth for the primary hit to the boundary. However like a champion skier on a easy downward slope, RCB ramped up its run-making pace in astonishing style.
Phil Salt (46, 30b, 3×4, 2×6) and Virat Kohli (28, 18b, 2×4, 1×6) collected runs at a strike-rate within the 150s; Devdutt Padikkal (50, 29b, 5×4, 2×6) within the 170s; captain Rajat Patidar (48 n.o., 19b, 1×4, 6×6) within the 250s earlier than David (70 n.o., 25b, 3×4, 8×6) took it as much as a scarcely plausible 280!
The fifteenth over that Overton bowled noticed simply two runs being conceded and the clean-striking Padikkal excised. However that fleeting second of calm was adopted by the Patidar-David storm which racked up 97 runs from the final 5 overs.
Essentially the most potent catalyst got here within the seventeenth over, bowled by tweaker Noor Ahmad, whereby David smashed three sixes off three unhealthy half-trackers. Within the 18th, David was bowled round his legs by Anshul Kamboj just for it to be no-ball. The following free-hit, unsurprisingly, went hovering over mid-on.
Overton’s nineteenth went for 30 runs, with David carting 4 maximums, together with one which went over square-leg and out of the stadium. It was sufficient to beat the dwelling daylights out of CSK.
Printed on Apr 05, 2026