That's that! CSK's winning run against RCB at Fort Chepauk continues. There is a review, but more in desperation, I think. Aims for the yorker that hits Dube's pad and goes to the fine leg fence. Ball tracker confirms the ball pitched outside leg. Ruturaj Gaikwad has made a winning start to his captaincy tenure.
RCB vs CSK, 1st Match at Chennai, IPL, Mar 22 2024 - Match Result
CSK won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
IPL 2024 gets off to a rousing start with CSK getting the better of RCB at Chepauk yet again. If you missed any of the action, Deiva's report will be in soon. That's it from us tonight. Thanks everyone for tuning in. It's a double-header tomorrow and we will be live nice and early to bring all the action. Till then, this is me Ashish signing off on behalf of Sidharth, Thilak and Chandan. Ciao!
Mustafizur Rahman is the player of the match for his 4 for 29.
CSK captain, Ruturaj Gaikwad: Total control right from the start. 2-3 overs here and there but once the spinners came on, we were in control. 10-15 runs lesser would have been great but they came back well. [Turning point?] To get Maxwell and even Faf out, the quick wickets were the turning point. Helps to control the next five-six overs. That was the main point. [Captaincy debut] I have always enjoyed it. Haven't felt the additional pressure, right from the state side. Not even a single time I felt pressurized by anything. Obviously had Mahi bhai with me. [On the chase] Everyone is a stroke-player in our side, even Jinx. There is role clarity in the batting unit. Helps a lot. Lots of positives, but two-three things to work on. The batting, everyone chipped in. If we had a few batters from the top-order batting through, the chase would have been easier.
Presentation time.
Some stat nuggets from Sampath:
- This is the 8th consecutive win for CSK vs RCB at Chepauk, the longest winning streak for any team against an opponent at a venue in IPL. Next best streak is for MI, who have won their last seven matches vs KKR at Wankhede.
- Ravindra Jadeja unbeaten in a successful IPL chase for the 27th time, joint-most by any batter, alongside MS Dhoni.
Amey: "Credit to Jadeja for playing only 2 dot balls and keeping the scoreboard moving, especially when Dube was struggling."
Afeef: "RCB needed a better plan than just bowling short balls. Alzarri could've been used better, I feel."
Rachin Ravindra: Pretty complete performance by us. We held our nerves. Batting with Jinx [Rahane] and Rutu, very calm heads. Lucky we had 4-5 days of good training. I find it easier going from red ball to white ball because I think the positions are the same, [Form] It's been good. The wickets were a bit different in training but I backed myself in the game. The experience of the amazing crowd was great. Helps a lot.
Faf du Plessis: You have to get ahead in the first six overs. Chennai squeeze you with their spinners. We lost too many wickets in the first six overs. We were 15-20 runs short on a pitch that wasn't as bad as we played in the first ten overs We were always a little bit behind trying to get ahead of the game. They were always ahead of the game. [Short ball plan] Dube wasn't comfortable with the short ball, we were trying to get a few wickets in the middle overs. But didn't happen. [Batting first] If you look at the stats, it is very in favour of batting first. It looked a bit on the drier side. The spinners, in the second innings, the ball started to grip a bit. We backed our seamers against Dube. But batting first was the right decision. [On DK and Rawat] Really good for Dinesh setting up the season for someone who hasn't really played a lot of cricket in the last year. Really important knock for himself. Rawat showed some really promise even last year. He showed composure.
11.55pmAnd the wait continues. That is eight wins on the bounce for CSK against RCB at Chepauk. And a clinical win it was to kick-off IPL 2024. It was Rachin Ravindra, on IPL debut, who gave the chase a flying start with a 15-ball 37. Rahane also did his bit scoring a quick 27. RCB did come back into the game with a few quick wickets as they adopted the short ball plan. But I felt they over-did it. Dube was clearly struggling initially, but once he survived, run-scoring was easy. Jadeja did his bit in rotating the strike, and eventually CSK got home with eight balls to spare. While RCB's middle order collapsed, CSK had all their batters contributing. And that was the difference between the two teams.
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TONKED! There was some aggression from Dube on that six. Banged in short outside off. He unleashes the pull and sends the ball soaring over deep backward square leg.
Banged in short now, good bumper this aiming at Dube's body. He is beaten for pace
Goes fuller and down leg even as Dube was looking to back away. Called a wide.
Back of a length ball on off, he pulls to deep midwicket
Banged in short outside off, he misses the ramp again
He gets another four to his name! Slower back of a length ball on off. He stands tall and flat-bats it over the bowler's head. Mid-off and mid-on were in
Low full toss outside off, he whacks it to extra cover. No run there
Banged in short outside off, he misses his ramp as the ball goes to the keeper.
Back of a length ball and he's found the gap to perfection. On leg stump, he gets across, and pulls it neatly in the gap between square leg and deep fine leg
Very high full toss, almost a waist-high no ball. It was on the stump and Dube can only bunt it to extra cover
Siraj
Back of a length ball on off, he pushes it to long off for a run
All set to continue
Beats the batter, beats the keeper and CSK collect four byes! That was banged in short at pace outside off. Dube looks for a ramp, misses as the ball hurries to Rawat who leaps with both hands up. The ball clips the tip of his fingers and runs away. Looks like he has hurt his fingers as well. Out comes the physio.
Another wayward bouncer down leg. Called a wide again
Oh, that's so neatly done by Dube. Back of a length ball on off. Dube stays leg side of the ball and just helps it past point. Used the pace of the ball much to his advantage
Banged in short and again that is quite short outside. A wide is a result
Back of a length ball outside off, he pulls it to deep midwicket
Banged in short at pace hurrying Jadeja who mistimes his pull towards long on. But because he had completely miscued it, the bowler had to sprint across. They take two.
Back of a length ball outside off, he thrashes it away to deep point. Some confusion and the result is an over-throw. What happened is a throw was fired from the deep who hit direct at the striker's end. Rawat, meanwhile feels there is a chance of a run out at the non-striker's end. He lobs the ball, misses and there is no one backing up
Shimmies down the track and scythes the good length ball to deep cover
1W | 1W | 1W | ||
1W |
2W | ||||
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai | |
Toss | Royal Challengers Bengaluru, elected to bat first |
Series | |
Season | 2024 |
Player Of The Match | |
Hours of play (local time) | 20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50-23.20 |
Match days | 22 March 2024 - night (20-over match) |
CSK Player Replacement | Impact player: in, out (2nd innings, 10.2 ov) |
RCB Player Replacement | Impact player: in, out (1st innings, 19.6 ov) |
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TV Umpire | |
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Match Referee | |
Points | Chennai Super Kings 2, Royal Challengers Bengaluru 0 |
Over 19 • CSK 176/4
CSK won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)