Hello everyone, Welcome back here. We take look on match 17 between
Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Super Kings, where Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings by 3 runs.
The match was held in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to bowl first. This is fourth match of CSK, in first match they lose against GT by 6 wickets while won second and third match against LSG and MI by 12 runs and by 7 wickets respectively. This is fourth match of RR and they won first match against SRH by 72 runs and third against DC by 57 runs while in second match lose against PBK by 5 runs.
The opening batman from RR was Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler. But Yashasvi Jaiswal lose his wicket on 10 runs to Tushar Deshpande. Devdutt Padikkal was next player on field. Both player played good shots. Devdutt Padikkal dropped by Moeen Ali when he was on 14 runs. In first power play of 6 overs RR were score 57 runs losing 1 wicket. Both the player made good partnership of 77 runs, Devdutt Padikkal lose wicket on 38 runs just made in 26 balls to Jadeja. Sanju Samson also lose wicket in same over to Jadeja. After 9 overs RR were score 88 runs losing 3 wickets. R Ashwin was next player on field and dropped by again Moeen Ali just on his first ball. After that Aswin take advantage of this and made some good shots and move score to 135 runs. But he lose his wicket on 30 runs made in 22 balls. Shimron Hetmyer was next player on field. Meanwhile Jos Buttler completed his fifty in 33 balls. But Jos Buttler lose his wicket immediately on 52 runs to Moeen Ali. In last some overs, Hetmyer made runs speedily and remains not out on 30 runs made in 18 balls. Finally, Rajasthan Royals made good score of 175 runs in 20 overs by losing 8 wickets.
Taking target of 176 runs, opening batman from Chennai Super Kings was Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway. But on just 8 runs Ruturaj Gaikwad lose his wicket to Sandeep Sharma. Next player on field was Ajinkya Rahane. Both players made good shots on field and increase score board. After first power play CSK made score of 45 runs on 1 wicket. They made of good partnership of 68 runs, Ajinkya Rahane lose his wicket on 31 runs made in 19 balls to Ravichandran Ashwin. After 10 overs CSK were made 80 runs losing 2 wickets. But good bowling from Rajasthan Royals, CSK lose Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, and Ambati Rayudu one after another. But from other side Conway was on filed, He made his fifty in 37 balls but lose his wicket just in next ball. After 15 overs score of CSK was 113 runs losing 6 wickets. At this time CSK were required 63 runs in 30 balls. Now Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni were on field. Both players made some big shots on field and speed up score board. But in last over CSK were required 21 runs in 6 balls and MS Dhoni was on strike. He made 2 big six to Sandeep Sharma and move match into interesting mode. Finally, CSK were required 6 runs in 2 balls, but Sandeep Sharma made both good yorker balls. And finally, Rajasthan Royals won the match by 3 runs. MS Dhoni tried his best but not a memorable finish for him. Ravichandran Ashwin was the player of match.