RCB or Royal Challengers Bangalore have defeated the great Thala team Chennai Super Kings yesterday in a great match and have occupied a position in the playoffs.
An unbelievable achievement indeed, fans are rooting for the RCB although they wished to witness CSK winning too as it was the last match of the legendary Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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Last Match highlights.
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Royal Challengers have defeated Chennai Super Kings by 27 runs to secure the fourth and final playoff spot in the Indian Premier League Points Table. The match happened at Bangalore on Saturday Evening. RCB scored 218, for five against CSK.
Skipper du Plessis scored 47 runs while important batsman Virat Kohli scored 47 runs and they both shared a great partnership of 78 runs, they created this 9.8 overs, after the match was interrupted by some showers at the end of the third over.
Then came, Rajat Patidar to bat and made 41 runs off 23 balls and Cameron Green, and made 38 runs from 17 runs, after which he was bowled out.
Towards the end the Dinesh Karthik made 14 runs from 6 balls, and Glenn Maxwell, made 16 runs from 5 balls and they played a kind of cameo for lift up the game.
CSK Batting.
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CSK needed 201 runs to qualify for the playoffs because of the better run rate. They could only manage 191 runs for 7.
Rachin Ravendra has scored 61 runs off 37 balls, while both Ravendra Jadeja and Ajinkya Rahane made 42 not out and 33 respectively. The legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni also came to bat, most probably in his last IPL match played 25 runs for 13 balls. After Mahendra Singh Dhoni had got out, Yash Dayal had come to cover up and after which he scored 42 runs but that wasn’t enough.
Virat and Anushka shared tears of joy.
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Anushka Sharma has been often seen being spotted to support the RCB team, and most importantly to support husband Virat Kohli. RCB had always had a bad fate as the team hasn’t even won a single trophy till now. And sometimes they didn’t even qualify for the playoffs, it was very hard for RCB to take this game to this very level and the reason why Anushka and Virat are really emotional at this point, because when you get something after a very long time, you can be emotional after seeing that your hard work bearing fruits at the end.
After so much of waiting, after so much of struggle you have seen that your pain has brought you victory then of course you can cry and that is what has been seen in this match. Anushka Sharma has stayed with Virat Kohli through thick and thin, we have always spotted her in every match of RCB being there for Virat Kohli as his biggest supporter. The picture too really made the fans also emotional.
Rain stops the play !
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As the day was progressing, the sun was perfectly hidden inside the clouds, and then after three overs itself when RCB was playing for the first half, it started to rain and the weather god’s with forecasts had already indicated 75 percent of in Bengaluru on the day of RCB vs CSK match in the IPL. But the forecasts didn’t demotivate RCB to take the runs to a swift 218. But, yes, we have to say that it was basically a test of faith.
Because Chennai super Kings have been known to lift up the trophy and that too even five times, and they have been known as the powerful team throughout the IPL. However, they didn’t maintain them in the form this time.
Did MS Dhoni help the RCB team to win?
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Well, recently in a video Dinesh Karthik has explained that when MS Dhoni had hit a six, in the first ball, when the CSK needed 17 runs to finish it up and when MS Dhoni had hit a six throwing the ball outside the stadium, then the ball needed to be changed which actually favored for the batsman, and Yash Dayal, got a good grip over the ball and it favored for them in the match, as revealed by Dinesh Karthik in a recent video.
MS Dhoni didn’t shake hands after the match !
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Dhoni, who hasn’t been fully fit in the entire season, was in front of the queue of the CSK players to wait for the RCB players and shake hands with them, but then, after waiting for some time, he went away to the dressing room. While the reason remains unknown, fans are anticipating that it may be because the team didn’t play very well, and most importantly Mahi or Mahendra Singh Dhoni didn’t uplift the runs to make the team win.
Whatever may be the reason, we will always thank Mahendra Singh Dhoni for playing so many beautiful matches which has made our team India win the trophy and made recognition all over the world.
