A total of 33 sixes rained on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, and catches were embarrassingly spilled before and after Ajinkya Rahane brilliantly saved a six in a match that saw over 400 runs until Royal Challengers Bangalore had to score 19 off the last over.
Pathirana holds his nerve in the final over as RCB almost chase down the 227-run target set before Chennai win by eight runs at the M Chinnaswa Matheesha Pathirana, a 20-year-old Kandy seamer.
Was reverse ramped for six, but he held his nerve and hit the yorker on his fourth ball to help Chennai Super Kings win by eight runs on Monday in Bengaluru.
The most elevated ever IPL complete against RCB at their home justified an exceptional pursuit. Additionally, these targets can cause the game’s best chaser to behave strangely because there can be no holding back when the asking rate is 11.
Virat Kohli shimmied down the field on the second ball of his stay to hit impact sub-Akash Singh through midwicket for four.
However, a follow-up ball caused the ball to clip Kohli’s boot, roll onto his stumps, and take an inside edge off of the big swing.
There was still drama. On zero, Mahesh Theekshana dropped Mahipal Lomror, and MS Dhoni made an easy catch of Faf du Plessis when the RCB captain was on zero.
Theekshana dropped a waist-high caught-and-bowled chance of du Plessis when he was on 52 in the 11th over, rubbing CSK’s wounds.
When opportunities arose to atone for those reprieves, Dhoni had no faith in anyone. Dhoni kept hold of a high, swirling catch off Theekshana in the 13th over, which resulted in Glen Maxwell’s wicket.
Du Plessis skied a second one immediately after, but Dhoni stopped anyone else from getting close.
But by that time.
The home team had made a lot of progress. After a 126-run partnership between Maxwell and du Plessis in 61 balls for the third wicket. RCB needed 86 off 47 when Maxwell was run out.
Du Plessis took the initiative to lay into CSK’s hard-length bowling, clearly in pain, probably from his back. In a 17-run over, du Plessis hammered Tushar Deshpande for two fours and a six. Deshpande was the first target.
Maxwell was at his most destructive. Slamming CSK’s bowling with eight sixes at will and scoring fifty in just 24 balls. Yet, it likewise takes just 10 great balls and a couple of gets to turn the match around.
CSK didn’t make it simple for themselves in the wake of eliminating RCB’s batting spine. Dropping Dinesh Karthik in the seventeenth over when he was hoping to break free.
Fortunately, Theekshana finally caught him off the penultimate ball of that over, so it didn’t cost them much.
At one of the more modest IPL settings. CSK came out terminating subsequent to being placed into bat and RCB had no response.
Mohammed Siraj was the only RCB bowler with a 7.5 economy. Primarily due to a two-over opening spell in which he dismissed Ruturaj Gaikwad and conceded just six runs.
However, no batter at No. 6 between Devon Conway and Moeen Ali struck out for less than 184.44. Collectively, Shivam Dube and Conway hit 11 of CSK’s 17 sixes.
Moeen Ali and Ravindra Jadeja were free to go crazy because the 200 was up by the 18th over and Dhoni was still padding up.
Scratching around, Jadeja was ready to resign hurt to clear a path for Dhoni however was approached to wait.
A six off Maxwell-compelled to finish the twentieth over after Harshal Patel had bowled two beamers-mitigated his hopelessness.
However, Dhoni needed to come in after Jadeja was trapped in the profound.