Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by 37 runs at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday night and registered their fourth win of the season while Chennai Super Kings suffered their fifth loss.
Earlier Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and opted to bat first. Aaron Finch's poor form continued as he was bowled out for just 2 runs by Deepak Chahar. Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli took the score to over 60 runs but they couldn't score quick runs and resultant Padikkal and AB de Villiers got out in the same over of Shardul Thakur and at 67/3 in 11 overs Bangalore was in big trouble.
Virat Kohli was rock solid at his end and brought up his fifty. In the last four overs, he changed the gears and smashed all bowlers and Bangalore scored 66 runs in these four overs and his 90* runs off 52 balls knock powered his team to 169/4 in 20 overs.
In reply Royal Challengers Bangalore's bowlers started well and didn't allow Chennai openers to score quick runs and resultant both Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson got out cheaply. Ambati Rayudu and N Jagadeeshan rebuilt the innings but they couldn't score quick runs and in the last 7 overs, Chennai needed more than 100 runs.
And because of that pressure, they kept losing wickets after wickets and eventually finished on 132/8 in 20 overs and lost the match. For Royal Challengers Bangalore Chris Morris took 3 wickets while Isuru Uadan and Washington Sundar picked up 2 wickets each.
All the major stats and facts from the 25th match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai :
9 - AB de Villiers bagged his 9th duck of IPL career and first duck since IPL 2016.
37 - Runs win is Royal Challengers Bangalore's biggest win over Chennai Super Kings in terms of runs in IPL. The previous biggest was by 36 runs at Bangalore back in 2010.
106 - Number of catches MS Dhoni has taken as wicket-keeper in IPL - the most by any wicket-keeper.
Most catches as wicketkeeper in IPL -
106 - MS Dhoni
104 - Dinesh Karthik
66 - Parthiv Patel
65 - Naman Ojha
58 - Robin Uthappa
300 - MS Dhoni has hit 300 sixes in T20 cricket - third Indian batsman to achieve this milestone.
Most sixes in T20 cricket (By Indian batsmen) -
375 - Rohit Sharma
311 - Suresh Raina
300 - MS Dhoni
293 - Virat Kohli
261 - Yuvraj Singh
837 - Runs Virat Kohli has scored against Chennai Super Kings in IPL - the most by any batsman.
Most runs against CSK in IPL -
837 - Virat Kohli
717 - Rohit Sharma
676 - Shikhar Dhawan
543 - Robin Uthappa
491 - Dinesh Karthik
1035 - Ambati Rayudu when on 7, completed 1000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL. He has scored a total of 1035 runs for them in IPL so far.
6000 - Virat Kohli when on 31, completed 6000 runs for Royal Challengers Bangalore in T20 cricket - the first-ever batsman to score 6000 T20 runs for a single team.
Most runs for RCB in T20 cricket (IPL + CLT20) -
6059 - Virat Kohli
3910 - AB de Villiers
3420 - Chris Gayle
1271 - Jacques Kallis
1132 - Rahul Dravid
