RCB beats CSK after 17 years in Chepauk..!
Under the leadership of Rahul Dravid, RCB last defeated CSK by 14 runs in 2008. After that, today on 28 March 2025, under the leadership of Rajat Patidar, they succeeded in winning by 50 runs. Rajat Patidar's captaincy was very commendable, he made aggressive batting today, changes in bowling at certain periods, these changes were the key to RCB's victory.
Dhoni's incredible stumping
CSK won the toss again at the Chepauk Stadium and invited RCB to bat first. Where Virat Kohli and Phil Salt enter the field to open. As soon as he enters the field, Phil Salt starts batting aggressively. But there is a little obstacle for Virat Kohli from the other side. Then, seeing Phil Salt's aggression, Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad brings Afghan spinner Noor Ahmed into the bowling in the 5th over and he releases the ball outside the off stump in the last ball, Phil Salt misses on that ball, his small mistake costs him dearly. As soon as the ball comes to Dhoni's hands, he stumps Dhoni with lightning speed, Phil Salt thinks that he is not out, but when the third umpire shows it on the display, he and the audience, commentators and all the players are surprised because Dhoni stumped with his safe hands and eyelids. And he had shown similar agility in the previous match as well, dismissing Suryakumar Yadav. Indeed, Dhoni's agility and ability to understand the innings from behind the wicket is very commendable at the age of 43.
RCB Creates Royal challenge for CSK
On the one hand, wickets were falling at regular intervals, but RCB's strategy was completely clear. On the same pitch where other teams failed to put a score above 160 on the scoreboard, RCB's batting aggressively scored 195 runs at a run rate of 9.50. The Chepauk pitch in particular has been very useful for bowling, where the average first innings score is 150. On such a pitch, RCB's batting, mainly due to the batting of captain Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal and the batting of Tim David in the final over, helped RCB to make a good score. Rajat Patidar in particular scored his first half-century for RCB as captain. CSK bowlers bowled well and took wickets but failed to disrupt RCB's batting strategy.
Chennai Express fails in front of RCB Bowling Attack
The CSK batsman came out on the pitch to chase a huge target of 196. Due to poor bowling by CSK, RCB put up a good score but it was not as easy as it seemed because the Chennai pitch is bowling friendly and keeping this in mind, captain Rajat Patidar took full advantage of it and managed to get CSK out of the match in the powerplay itself. RCK bowled so well that Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets in his first over, mainly dismissing Captain Gaikwad who was in form for a duck. Due to poor batting, CSK had their lowest score in the powerplay this season at 30/3. As wickets were falling on one side, Rachin Ravindra was running the scoreboard on the pitch from the other side. But Rajat Patidar brought in Yash Dayal and dismissed him on his first ball, and RCB completely dominated the matches. Rajat Patidar's constantly changing bowling strategy did not allow CSK to enter the matches. In RCB's bowling, Hazlewood, Livingstone and Dayal took 2 wickets each and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took one wicket. Although the Chepauk pitch was favorable for bowling, RCB's strategy and their approach to winning were decisive in these matches and RCB defeated CSK by 50 runs at their home ground.
RCB's performance and their strategy are very commendable. Especially the leadership of Captain Rajat Patidar, he batted well and led RCB to the top of the points table. Even though RCB is at the top of the points table today, they should forget about this victory and prepare for the new match with a new strategy, maintain consistency in performance and play a team game to move towards winning the title.
