The first two balls were length deliveries, which were easily dispatched over the ropes. Under pressure, Hooda bowled a couple of full tosses and Lomror helped himself to some easy runs. Iyer and the man who had replaced him as DC captain at the start of the season, Rishabh Pant, guided the team towards victory with ease. The former crunched consecutive boundaries off Sandeep Sharma in the 14th over.
Stellar 19th from Chahar
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Earlier, Lockie Ferguson impressed with the ball, claiming 2 for 27. He dismissed Ishan Kishan and Krunal Pandya. Krishna (2 for 43) proved expensive in the end analysis but got the major scalps of De Kock and Suryakumar. Sunil Narine (1 for 20) also kept things extremely tight. MI went into the clash with the psychological edge, having defeated KKR in 22 of the 28 meetings between the two teams.
He has looked to swing the ball from the middle stump line but it’s only drifted harmlessly for Kohli. This time, he clips the ball over the mid-wicket region for four. First ball in Sharjah and it’s a boundary!
A crisp drive through extra-cover for four. After playing two dot balls, Ruturaj and Faf look to steal a single off Hasaranga at point. The replay shows he got there just in time.
A relief for the CSK camp and supporters. CSK are 125/3 after 15 overs, needing 32 to win from 30 balls. RCB’s woes continued as Chakravarthy joined the act. Glenn Maxwell (10 off 17) had a frustrating day as he threw his bat around but couldn’t find his timing.
- This is an interesting battle, between the CSK openers and the RCB leg spinners.
- Full and slow outside off, Kohli, rolls his wrist and smacks the ball into the deep mid-wicket boundary for four.
- A relief for the CSK camp and supporters.
- Agarwal, who had been rather quiet until then, opened up by picking up three consecutive fours off Kartik Tyagi in the eighth over.
RCB Vs CSK: DDP goes big
Had it not been for the late fightback from PBKS, RR looked set to post a score in excess of 200. With three needed off three, Deepak Hooda missed a full and wide outside off stump, walking across to the off side. He was out next ball, edging a drive to Sanju Samson. The last ball from Karthik was a full and wide delivery to Fabian Allen, which the batter failed to connect.
The DC opener was back in the hut for 11. Dhawan then slog-swept Rashid Khan for a six as DC ended the powerplay on a sedate 39 for 1. KKR got off to a scintillating start in their chase of 156 as they raced to 63 for 1 at the end of the powerplay.
A length ball was launched over fine leg and another long hop indibet was smashed in the same area as the PBKS opener raised his fifty in style. He also went past 2000 IPL runs during his terrific knock. The wet ball made matters worse for Morris. Two more fours came off loose balls as the over went for 25.
Ishan Kishan (14) then toe-ended a pull off Ferguson. Krishna bowled a poor last over, though, to give the MI innings some momentum. A slower ball from Bumrah ended Iyer’s brilliance but Tripathi carried on having fun. KKR skipper Eoin Morgan fell for 7, but Tripathi was at the other end when Nitish Rana hit the winning four off Rohit Sharma’s bowling.