Chennai Super Kings (CSK) registered their fourth win in the ongoing IPL 2020 by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 8 wickets in Dubai on October 25, 2020, in the 44th match of the tournament.
RCB won the toss and chose to bowl first. However, the slow nature of the pitch made it hard for the batsmen to make runs. Devdutt Padikkal also made 22, while AB de Villiers (39) and Virat Kohli (50) added 82 runs for the third wicket, as RCB ended on 145/6 in 20 overs.
For CSK, Sam Curran picked 3/19, Deepak Chahar got 2/31 and Mitchell Santner also picked one wicket.
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In reply, Faf du Plessis made 25 (2x4s, 2x6s) and Rayudu made 39 runs (3x4s, 2x6s), while Dhoni remained unbeaten on 19 with three fours to his name. But the hero of CSK’s dominant chase was opener Ruturaj Gaikwad, as he slammed 65* from 51 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes to his name, as CSK reached the target with 8 wickets in hand in the 19th over.
Morris and Chahal were the wicket-takers from the RCB team.
The cricket fraternity was elated with CSK’s performance and the spark showed by young Ruturaj. They celebrated the win on Twitter with some amazing tweets.
Here are some tweets:
