Mumbai: CSK captain MS Dhoni said their batsmanship let them down against RCB as they lost by 13 runs on Wednesday.
Superb bowling efforts from Harshal Patel (3/35) and Glenn Maxwell (2/22) guided Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 13-run win over Chennai Super Kings here at MCA stadium in Pune on Wednesday.
Fighting knocks from Devon Conway (56), Moeen Ali (34) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (28) kept the hopes alive for CSK but were not enough for CSK to dismiss Bangalore as a unit, as the bowlers overtook the batsmen in the yellow. Shahbaz Ahmed (1/27), Josh Hazlewood (1/19) and Wanindu Hasaranga (1/31) also bowled for RCB.
“We did well to restrict them to 170-odd runs. I felt in the latter half it could be better and we had to get off to a good start, everything was up to the mark and what let us down was the batsmanship. When you are chasing you know what is required and at times you have to curb your instinct and see what really the situation is demanding rather than playing your shots. The shot selection could have been better towards the end. We had a good start and had wickets in hand, the surface kept getting better but we lost wickets at regular intervals,” said Dhoni at the post-match presentation.
Dhoni added that chasing is about calculations and batting first is more about instinct.
“We can look back at some of the shots if we take care of those things.. Ultimately as a batter or bowler, you are in the middle and you have to decide, I do not think that was a problem today. We need to keep looking about what went wrong, it is easy to get distracted by how many points you have. It is the mistakes and it is the process that matters rather than where you are positioned in the points table,” he added.
Batting first it was a brilliant inning from Faf du Plessis, Mahipal Lomror and a quick cameo from Dinesh Karthik that helped Royal Challengers Bangalore reach a challenging total of 173/8 in the first innings against Chennai Super Kings at the MCA Stadium here on Wednesday. helped to reach.
Despite best efforts, CSK fell 13 runs short of their fourth win of the season.
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