JOIN USIPL 2021 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings highlights: CSK beat RCB by 6 wickets
So CSK complete a double over RCB this season. With this win CSK now have14 points from 9 matches and they move on the top of the points table. RCB have 10 points from 9 matches and remain third in the league. Tomorrow we have two matches lined up. FirstDC take on RR and thenSRH face PBKS.
That would be all from the coverage of this match. Goodbye!
Player of the Match
CSK's Dwayne Bravo wins the Player of the Match award for his spell of 3/24.
Dwayne Bravo: I just strive to be competitive. IPL is the toughest competition in the world. Some days it works for me, some days it doesn't. But the pride and love I have for this game keeps me going. RCB are a big side, and Virat is a very good player, so important wicket. Wanted to just keep it simple. Variations, yorkers, slower balls...just stuck to my basics. Today I bowled around the wicket and wide yorkers, leg stump yorkers. That gets the batters thinking which way the ball will go. Its all about keeping myself healthy
MS Dhoni, CSK captain: We were worried about the dew and we saw that last season. They got off to a great start and after the eighth or ninth over, the pitch slowed down a bit. Jadeja's spell was very crucial especially with the way Padikkal was batting from one end. I told Moeen that he would bowl from one end during drinks, but then I changed my mind. I decided Bravo should bowl because the more you delayed him, the more difficult it was given that he'd have to bowl four straight overs in these difficult conditions. Our players have worked hard and understood their roles and responsibilities. All three grounds here are different. This one is the slowest of the lot. I felt the left-right combination here was important with the bat. We bat deep with a lot of lefties and all of them are good to bat at any position, which is why we pushed Raina and Rayudu down.Bravo is fit and executing them well. I call him my brother and we always have fights over whether he should bowl the slower ball. But now everyone knows that he has the slower ball, so I told him to bowl six different balls in an over.
Virat Kohli, RCB captain:The wicket did slow downa bit. But I feel we left out 15-20 runs out there. 175 would've been a winning total. Didn't bowl consistently. Didn't show that much courage I guess with the ball. They bowled well in the back end of the innings, executed the slower balls and yorkers nicely. We spoke of areas we didn't want them to hit and we didn't do that. That little bit of X factor was missing in the first 5-6 overs. Got to get on that winning run again. This one is a bit more disappointing. The first one we just weren't in the game. Have to show more courage in crunch moments. This tournament goes by quickly.
CSK 157/4 after 18.1 overs.
Harshal to bowl the nineteenth over.
18.1Harshal to Raina, WIDE! Full ball down the leg side.
18.1Harshal to Raina, 1 run, short ball wide of off-stump, Raina hits the ball high in the air, the ball falls in no man's land and Raina takes a single to seal CSK's win!