In the 49th game of the present version of the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore faced off against Chennai Super Kings at the Eden Gardens. At Pune’s Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, the game took place on Saturday. The toss was won by Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who invited Faf du Plessis and the rest of his team to open the face of the blade first.
In the first leg, the Chennai Super Kings defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 23 runs to claim the victory. Meanwhile, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated the defending champions by 13 runs in the second leg.
With that, the four-time IPL champions are officially eliminated from contention for the playoffs. In their allowed quota of 20 overs, RCB scored 173 for the loss of four wickets in their first innings of batting. After responding with 160/8 in their allotted 20 overs, CSK went on to lose the game by a wicket. Harshal Patel was declared the man of the match after recording 3/35 in his quota of 4 overs for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Glenn Maxwell and Virat Kohli have a lighthearted conversation.
After the game, Glenn Maxwell and Virat Kohli had a lighthearted talk about the game. The video clip of the incident has been doing the rounds on social media portals as of recently.
“I JUST CAN’T BAT WITH YOU, YOU RUN TOO FAST, YOU RUN TOO FAST,” Maxwell can be heard saying to Virat Kohli during the match. “YOU GET ONE AND TWO, BUT I DON’T”.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore are still in the hunt for a playoff spot in the Indian Premier League. They just must win all of their remaining games by a wide margin in order to remain in the safe zone for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, they have moved up to fourth place in the table following their victory over CSK. The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have played 11 games in the competition, winning six games and losing as many as five games.
In the following match, Faf du Plessis and his teammates will square off against the Sunrisers Hyderabad. The game will take place on May 8 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, and it will be a shootout.
