In this article, we will discuss the Cricket Highlights, March 24 IPL 2024 Match 01. Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore. Defending champions CSK. Defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) started the tournament with a win. MS Dhoni’s Super Kings won by 6 wickets against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore went to the face-off in the opening match of IPL 2024 on Friday (March 22) night. Batting earlier in the match, RCB scored 173 runs losing 6 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. In reply, CSK won by losing only 4 wickets in 18.4 overs.
RCB captain Faf du Plessis batted aggressively from the start. Keeping Virat Kohli aside, Deepak and Tushar made 33 runs in the first three overs with one boundary after another. Where du Plessis had 30 runs in 17 balls and Kohli had 1 run in 1 ball. In the fourth over, Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana managed a bit. 3 runs came in this over.
Then, CSK’s new captain Ruturaj Gaikwad handed the ball to Mustafizur Rahman. On this day, it was as if another person was seen at the Chidambaram Stadium. His performance in the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka at home was disappointing. His bowling figures were 42/0, 42/1 and 47/1 respectively.
After such a poor performance, he was dropped from the first two ODIs. After that, he got a chance in the IPL after playing the third ODI, but there were doubts about his place in the XI.
But since Matheesha Pathirana was injured, Mustafiz got a chance. And he turned the game around by attacking. After dotting the first ball, du Plessis hit him for four in the second ball. The Protea batter tried to pick up the next ball as well. But the ball outside of his off stump failed to connect properly on the bat and was caught by the fielder Ravindra at deep point. Du Plessis scored 35 runs off 23 balls with 8 fours.
The next two balls were dot and the last ball again made Rajat a victim of cutting behind and Mustafiz sent him to the dressing room. Deepak succeeded in bowling in the next over, using the pressure of Mustafiz in the RCB camp. He dismissed Glenn Maxwell. This Aussie all-rounder started the season with a golden duck.
At times, Cameron Green and Kohli tried to control the team. 35 runs came in their pair. But Mustafiz did not let them go far. Coming in the 12th over, he guided two settled batters to the dressing room.
Green took 1 run after seeing the first ball of this over. On the next ball, Kohli was caught by Ravindra at midwicket while pulling Mustafiz. His innings stopped at 21 runs off 19 balls. Anuj Rawat struck Green with 1 run in the next ball. This time, Green lost his stumps while playing to make room for Mustafiz’s leg pitch outside the stumps. He scored 18 runs off 22 balls.
Dinesh Karthik and Rawat led the team to 116 runs in the next four overs. Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, and Maheesh Theekshana could not put them under much pressure. Mustafiz came on the attack in the 17th over. This tiger pacer could not take any wicket in this over but only spent 7 runs.
In the 18th over, Karthik and Rawat picked up 25 runs by taming Tushar. Coming to end his spell in the 19th over, Mustafiz gave 16 runs. His victim was 4 wickets at the cost of 29 runs at the end of 4 overs. This is his best innings in IPL career. The previous one was 3 for 16, for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in 2016.
On this side, Tushar, who sprouted 38 runs in the previous three overs, spent only 9 runs in the last over with great bowling. Rawat got out with a regrade of 2 runs. He scored 48 runs off 25 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. Karthik scored 38 runs off 26 balls, with 3 fours and 2 sixes. 95 runs came in the pair of the two. RCB’s innings stopped at 173 runs.
In response, CSK scored 38 runs in the opening pair of captain Ruturaj and Ravindra. Captain got out with just 15 runs off 15 balls but Ravindra and Ajinkya Rahane kept the run cycle going. Ravindra’s innings of 37 runs off 15 balls gave Super Kings a good start. This Kiwi star left the team with 71 runs.
Then Rahane and Daryl Mitchell took the lead. But Rahane could not go far. He departed after scoring 27 runs off 19 balls. After a while, Mitchell also departed after scoring 22 runs from 18 balls and the rest was done by Shivam Dube and Jadeja. Both left the field after confirming the victory of the team. Batting as a replacement for Mustafiz, Dube scored an unbeaten 34 runs from 28 balls. And Jadeja scored an unbeaten 25 runs off 17 balls. CSK won by 6 wickets with 8 balls in hand.
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 173/6 (20.0)
Chennai Super Kings – 176/4 (18.4)
Result – Chennai Super Kings won by 6 wickets
Player of the match – Mustafizur Rahman
Mustafizur Rahman
Chennai Super Kings | Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), MS Dhoni (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Maheesh Theekshana, Sameer Rizvi, Deepak Chahar, Mustafizur Rahman, and Tushar Deshpande. |
Royal Challengers Bangalore | Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat (wk), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Dinesh Karthik, Karn Sharma, Mayank Dagar, and Mohammed Siraj. |
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