- Under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar, RCB has registered a historic victory by defeating Chennai Super Kings (CSK vs RCB) by 50 runs in their stronghold. After the victory, Patidar praised his players a lot.
CSK vs RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore (CSK vs RCB) has won the match at Chepauk Stadium, the stronghold of Chennai Super Kings, after the year 2008. In IPL history, RCB has only the second win at the Chepauk ground. The special thing is that this victory of RCB has come after about 6,155 days in Chepauk. In this match, RCB (CSK vs RCB) batted first and scored 196 runs on the scoreboard, in response to which Chennai Super Kings could score only 146/8 runs in the stipulated 20 overs and lost the match by a huge margin of 50 runs. At the same time, let us tell you what RCB captain Rajat Patidar said after this victory.
What did Patidar say after the victory?
After conquering the fort of Chennai Super Kings (CSK vs RCB), Royal Challengers Bangalore’s new captain Rajat Patidar said that
“If I talk about this match, it was a good score on this surface because the ball was stopping a bit, and it was not easy for the batsmen to hit boundaries and sixes. Playing at Chepauk is always special because of the fans, the way they support their teams.
My goal was clear that as long as I was at the crease, I should hit every ball. This pitch was very helpful for spinners, so I just kept in mind that I could use my spinners as much as possible in the beginning. Especially Liam Livingstone; the way he bowled four overs was incredible. Hazlewood proved to be a game-changer as we got two or three wickets in the first six overs. The ball was not coming on the bat easily on this pitch.
Batsmen put up big scores
Royal Challengers Bangalore (CSK vs RCB), who came to bat first after losing the toss, had a great start. Phil Salt and Virat Kohli together played an important partnership of 45 runs for the first wicket. However, Salt became the victim of Noor Ahmed after scoring 32 runs off 16 balls. After this, other batsmen played important innings for the team, albeit small.
In this match, captain Rajat Padidar played a quick inning of 51 runs off 32 balls, while Tim David made a valuable contribution of 22 runs off 8 balls. Jitesh Sharma also scored 12 runs off 6 balls. At the same time, Devdutt played an inning of 27 runs off 14 balls with the bat, based on which Royal Challengers Bangalore (CSK vs RCB), batting first, was successful in scoring a huge score of 196 runs at the Chepauk ground.
The bowlers did wonders
After batting brilliantly, the bowlers of Royal Challengers Bangalore (CSK vs RCB) also performed brilliantly in this match and played a key role in giving the team a big win. In the second over of the innings, the team’s main fast bowler Josh Hazlewood first dismissed Rahul Tripathi and then captain Rituraj Gaikwad in the same over. After this, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, playing his first match of IPL 2025, made Deepak Hooda his victim, and from her, the wickets of the Chennai Super Kings kept falling continuously. In this match, Hazlewood took the maximum three wickets, while Yash Dayal and Liam Livingstone took two wickets each, based on which RCB was successful in getting a big win of 50 runs.