RCB Vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights: RCB qualified
RCB Vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights: In the 68th match of IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore have qualified for the playoffs with a win by 27 runs. With this, Faf Duplessis’s team has become the fourth team of this season to reach the playoffs. Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad qualified. At the same time, CSK’s journey ended with this defeat. Batting first, RCB scored 218 runs losing five wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Chennai could score only 191 runs after losing seven wickets in 20 overs.
Status of points table
RCB Vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights: With seven wins in 14 matches, RCB has reached fourth position in the points table. The team now has 14 points in its account and their net run rate is +0.459. At the same time, Kolkata is in first place with 19 points. At second and third place are the teams of Rajasthan and Hyderabad, who have 16 and 15 points in their account respectively. The teams of Rajasthan and Hyderabad will play their last matches of the league stage on Sunday. Now there will be a battle for the top two between the two.
Thrill of the last over
RCB Vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights: After 19 overs, RCB needed 17 runs to qualify while 35 runs were needed to win the match. Captain Faf Duplessis expressed confidence in Yash Dayal and handed him the ball in the last over of the innings. On the first ball, Dhoni played a strong shot on fine-leg and hit a six of 110 meters. Now the team needed 11 runs in five balls, but Dhoni was caught out by Swapnil Singh on the very next ball.
Now Shardul Thakur came to bat. No run came on the third ball. Now the team needed 11 runs from three balls. On the fourth ball, Shardul played a shot towards third man and stole a run. Now Chennai needed 10 runs in two balls to qualify. Jadeja reached the crease. Dayal bowled dots on both the last balls of the over and Jadeja could not score any runs. With this, RCB won its sixth consecutive match of the season.
Chennai innings : RCB Vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights
Chennai Super Kings, who set out to chase the target of 219 runs, started with a shock. Maxwell dismissed captain Ruturaj Gaikwad on the first ball. He returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, Yash Dayal sent Daryl Mitchell to the pavilion in the third over. He could score only four runs. After this, Rachin Ravindra and Ajinkya Rahane took charge. There was a partnership of 66 runs between the two for the third wicket which was broken by Lockie Ferguson.
He dismissed the Indian batsman on the score of 85 runs. Rahane managed to score 33 runs in 22 balls against RCB. At the same time, New Zealand’s star cricketer Rachin Ravindra scored the first half-century of his career and returned to the pavilion after playing a blazing innings of 61 runs.
He played an explosive inning of 61 runs in 37 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes. Shivam Dubey could score only seven runs, he was made his victim by Cameron Green. Apart from this, Mitchell Santner was out after scoring three runs.
Chennai had lost its sixth wicket on the score of 129 runs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni came to bat at number eight. Dhoni, who came to bat in the 16th over, made a partnership of 61 runs with Jadeja. Both faced only 27 balls. However, Yash Dayal gave the biggest blow to Chennai on the second ball of the 19th over. He got Dhoni caught out by Swapnil Singh.
The former captain managed to score 25 runs against RCB in 13 balls with the help of three fours and one six. Whereas, Jadeja remained unbeaten after scoring 42 runs and Shardul Thakur remained unbeaten after scoring one run. For RCB, Yash Dayal took two wickets while Maxwell, Siraj, Ferguson and Green got one wicket each.