A brilliant performance by the Chennai Super Kings’ slow bowlers, spearheaded by a triple-strike from Harbhajan Singh at the top of the order, first restricted the Royal Challengers Bangalore to a mere 70 in 17.1 overs and then𓆏 the yellow brigade chased the set target in the ⛎18th over with 7 wickets in hand.
For RCB, the only plus was the performance of young Navdeep Saini who hurried Shane Watson and Suresh Raina with pace and as commentator Simon Doull describe bowled with “genuine heat”, clocking 145 kmph regularly. He completed his full quota of four overs and gave away just 24 runs.
“No one wants to start like this, but it’s good to get a game like this out of the way – this early in the tournament. We spoke of trying to be in the game, taking it to the 18th over was nice to see. The batting wasn’t good, it wasn’t easy to bat on, looked much better surface though, I thought 140-150 would have been an ideal score, especially with dew expected later on. A scrappy start to the league, but I don’t think either team had control over it, the pitch was under the covers for 4 days, but we should have batted better, 110-120 would have been a fighting score. He (Saini) has been good in conditions where there’s some grass, got his chance now. I thought CSK played really well, they deserved to win, but I loved to see our team fighting all the way,” said RCB skipper Virat Kohli after the match.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
. beaཧt Roya🏅l Challengers Bangalore by 7 wickets in the opening encounter of 2019.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
paying the price for their Batsmen failing to assess the conꦆditions in ꦐ tonight , 130+ would have been hard work for any side
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
Saving your nails for another evening, Lions! w🍎ins! 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Great opening g🐲ambit by in hustling RCB on square turner. But all teams will now be alerted to their strength at home so clearly more challenging times ahead for CSK. need to regroup, rethin🅷k tactics
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
What an exciting finish to the opening game of … zzzzz 😄
— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur)
Prediction gone wrong dis time but I still hav hopes on goin forward in d tournament. At least my X factors fr🐎om Rcb were playing in d 11 which I predicted 😉 It’s a long tournament nd I’m sure they r gonna bounce back 👍
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
Getting to be a rout.𒉰 Bhajji and Tahir creating havoc. Unable to see any method in RCB’s batting
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
RCB took SRK's 70 minute too seriously.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS)
Lowest Powerplay scores in IPL:
14 RR v RCB, Cape Town, 2009
15 CSK v KKR, Kolkata, 2011
16 CSK v DD, Raipur, 2015
16 CSK v RCB, Chennai, 2019 *— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)
Dhoni has read this wicket perfectly. Pulling out Harbhajan and getting him to produce a potentially match winning spell…..
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
time 😁😁 Come on 💃🏾
— Danielle Wyatt (@Danni_Wyatt)
new season and all🉐 that but CSK are doing CSK things and RCB are doing RCB things
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
King'u da, annen Singh'u da! 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
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❤️❤️❤️
😼— Priyanka Chaudhary Raina (@PriyankaCRaina)
Royal Challengers Bangalore's lowest totals in the IPL:
49/10 vs KKR, 2017
70/10 vs RR, 2014
70/10 vs CSK, TodayRCB become the first side t💟o be dismissed under 🍌75 on three different instances in the IPL.
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Lowest totals in IPL's first match of the season:
70 – RCB v CSK, 2019
82 – RCB v KKR, 2008— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
4-1-9-3 may sound like the OTP to the free Wi-Fi at Chepauk. But that's the incredible figures by ! WhistlePodu 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Suresh Raina adds another feather to his cap.
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