CSK Started Off Charmingly – Beats RCB By 7 Wickets At The First Match Of IPL 2019
Mumbai: The Defending Champions kick off the season in a typical style, wins comfortably the first match of Vivo IPL 2019 by 7 wickets at just 17.4 overs. Chasing a target of 71 would be however pretty much easy for the Super Kings.
Super Kings bowling broke RCB’s batting and showed the ten batsmen to their way to Pavilion at regular intervals.
This is the second time in IPL when both Kohli and Ab De Villiers failed to score a boundary in an innings, playing together. Other was against Mumbai Indians in 2013.
RCB’s 9 batsmen dismissed at a single digit number and all they could add was 70 equalling their second lowest score in IPL which was against Rajasthan Royals in 2014.
Harbhajan Singh and Imran Tahir both taking 3-3 wickets out off their 4 overs spell, kept RCB to its knees throughout.
Chasing a low target Suresh Raina becomes the first batsmen to reach history by scoring 5000 runs in IPL cricket. Raina scored his milestone at just 178 innings.
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RCB captain Virat Kohli after so many controversies regarding not winning the IPL trophy, will surely have to cope up at the consistency he is still looking for in his team and work on for the upcoming IPL matches.
Man Of The Match
Harbhajan Singh, who was the wild card entry for the top 11 for CSK proved his skill, undertaking the task given to him by taking 3 wickets for 20 of his 4 overs and was elected for the Man of the Match award.
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