An all-round present by Ravindra Jadeja noticed Chennai Super Kings safe a crushing 69 runs win in opposition to table-toppers Royal Challengers Bangalore of their Indian Premier League conflict on Sunday. After the defeat Virat Kohli’s RCB tumbled down one place on the factors desk and now CSK stand as the present leaders.
The all-rounder, who was dropped whereas batting on 0 by Dan Christian, went on to play a thunderous knock of 62 from 28 balls. During the course of the innings Jadeja additionally smashed RCB seamer and present Purple Cap holder Harshal Patel for 37 runs within the closing over, serving to CSK pile a difficult 191/4 on the board.
Big effort within the subject right now to go previous #RCB. This is one victory that @ChennaiIPL will cherish for a very long time! https://t.co/9lEz0r9hZo #SRHvDC #VIVOIPL pic.twitter.com/7N3a1y4OmI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 25, 2021
With the ball, Jadeja was equally efficient as he scalped three wickets in his four-over quota and conceded simply 13 runs as MS Dhoni and co. restricted RCB for 122/9 in 20 overs. This was not the tip, Jadeja was additionally concerned in an excellent run-out, which introduced an finish to Christain’s keep within the center.
After opting to bat first, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis began from the place they left and gave CSK the perfect begin they might have hoped for. The pair added 74 for the opening wicket earlier than Gaikwad was eliminated by Chahal on 33 off 25 balls.
Du Plessis then stitched one other fast partnership with Suresh Raina, earlier than CSK endured a double blow in 14th over bowled by Harshal Patel.
Sir Ravindra Jadeja in final over.
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(37 runs in 6 balls)And all #CSK followers began the whistles. #Jaddu bapu mauj kari nakhi.#RavindraJadeja | #SirJadeja | #CSKvRCB pic.twitter.com/SeoOQBAelW
— Dhaval Balai (@DhavalBalai) April 25, 2021
However, Jadeja then took the issues into his hand and ran riot on the Wankhede Stadum. During the course of his imperious knock, Jadeja additionally turned simply the seventh batsman in T20 historical past to attain 36 runs from a single over. He joins the record alongside Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle, Ross Whiteley, Kieron Pollard, Hazratullah Zazai, and Leo Carter.
Jadeja got here out to bat within the center at a troublesome stage when CSK had misplaced two set batsmen within the type of Raina and Du Plessis. That did not cease the Saurashtra all-rounder as he completed the innings with a superlative effort with skipper MS Dhoni having fun with the scenes from the opposite finish.
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In response to CSK’s 191/4, Devdutt Padikkal and Kohli received off to an honest begin with the previous doing a lot of the hitting. Sam Curran offered Chennai with the primary breakthrough after Kohli (8 off 7) edged an supply by the English all-rounder to Dhoni.
Soon after Kohli’s dismissal, Padikkal (34 off 15) and Washington Sundar (7 off 11) have been eliminated shortly, pushing RCB’s excessive profile pair AB de Villiers and Glenn Maxwell on to the scene. However, the duo did not make any impression and RCB continued to lose wickets at common intervals.
Apart from Jadeja, Imran Tahir scalped two wickets, whereas Sam Curran and Shardul Thakur shared one wicket every.
