It was Match 53 of IPL between Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs. Chennai Super Kings. RCB are out of the tournament and they played for pride today. While on the other hand, it was quite an important game for CSK as they needed to win it to keep their position at the top two of the league table. At last, we witnessed yet another defeat of RCB and CSK affirmed their place in the top two by today’s win. There have been some mentionable performances in the game. They are listed as follows:
FLOPS Of The Match
Rilee Rossouw (RCB): He made is way in the RCB team in place of Chris Gayle. He opened the innings for RCB but came up with a disappointing performance today. He was dismissed in the very first over and scored just 1 run off 4 deliveries he faced.
AB De Villiers (RCB): One of the most dynamic batsmen of the game is going through a bad patch at the current time. For yet another time today, he did not able to score a fiery innings. He only managed to score 10 runs off 6 balls when he was bowled out by AB De Villiers.
Mitchell Starc (RCB): The Aussie pacer gave a disappointing performance with the ball today. He was thrashed hard by Dwayne Smith in the initial overs and did not even manage to take break-through. He was given 3 overs today and he went for 33 runs and went wicketless.
Shadab Jakati (RCB): He played his first game today and was expensive with his bowling. He went for 41 runs in 3.4 overs and went wicketless.
HITS Of The Match
Virat Kohli (RCB): The RCB skipper played another fantastic knock today. His innings helped his team to reach to a defendable score. He played a fantastic innings today and scored 73 runs off 49 deliveries with 2 fours and 5 sixes.
Ashish Nehra (CSK): He played his second game in this IPL today and came up with a stunning performance. His Yorkers were hard to play for the batsmen. He took 3 wickets today and that too were very crucial ones, especially the wickets of Virat Kohli and AB De Villiers. He gave 33 runs in his 4 overs. Although he was a bit expensive, but he had taken important wickets.
Francois Du Plessis (CSK): He has been the opener for CSK since McCullum left the side. He is playing well at the opening spot. He scored 54 runs off 43 deliveries with 3 fours and 3 sixes and remained unbeaten. The partnership between him and Dhoni won the match for CSK.
MS Dhoni (CSK): One of the best finishers of the game once again proved his abilities. He played extremely and snatched the game from RCB’s hands. He has also been called as one of the most selfless cricketers in the game. Today he once again proved it. He sacrificed his fifty for the sake of Du Plessis and allowed him to score his half century and himself remained unbeaten on 49 runs off 28 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. He was adjourned as the Man of the Match.