IPL -08 : CSK Beat RCB by 24 runs

04 May, Chennai

Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 24 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium , Chennai on Monday.
After posting a modest 148 for nine in 20 overs, Chennai exhibited brilliant death over skills to bundle out the Bangalore side for 124 in 19.4 overs.
The Visitors lost Wickets at regular intervals as the CSK executed its plan perfectly. Iswar Pandey and Ashish Nehra bowled in tandem to take five wickets.Ashish Nehra bagged three and Pandey and Dwayne Bravo took two wickets each .
For RC Virat Kohi scored highest 48 run while Dinesh karthik 23, David Wuese 17 and AB de Villiers made 21 runs. No other batsmen reached double figure .
With the win, Chennai regained their position at the top of the table with 14 points in 10 games.
Earlier CSK posted 148 for nine against Royal Challengers Bangalore . CSK won the toss and elected to bat. They didn’t have a particularly bright start after West Indian Dwayne Smith was bowled for zero by Australian pacer Mitchell Starc.
The other opener, Brendon McCullum (20) also departed early after raising hopes of putting together a partnership with Suresh Raina (52).
But Raina remained unperturbed by the setback and carried on gracefully and compiled a 64-run third-wicket stand with South African Faf du Plessis (24).
The Raina-Plessis partnership didn’t allow the run-scoring momentum to dip. But RCB broke the momentum in the 15th over when pacer Harshal Patel dismissed both du Plessis and Raina.
The twin blow snapped CSK’s initiative and they struggled to force the pace from there on, managing to score only 47 runs in the last five overs.
CSK skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (29) unleashed some powerful hits to the fence to get their total close to the 150-run mark but even his best efforts looked modest as his team lost wickets at regular intervals to manage just an average total.