IPL 2025, CSK vs RCB Synopsis: After returning empty -handed from Chepuk since 2008, Royal Challengers Bangalore performed a clinical show to reduce Chennai Super Kings.
A year ago, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, he excluded CSK from the play-off, while ruled by a loped rivalry. On Friday, at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, he tasted success against his southern rivals for the first time since 2008. While the head-to-head was read 22–11 in favor of CSK before this game, it was 8–1 in favor of a five-time champion at MA Chidambaram Stadium. On Friday, RCB will finally eliminate the winning streak, and they also did it in some style. There is one thing to silence Chepuk, but with the mantras of “RCB, RCB” show the major performance hanging in the air to get out of the stadium that he put on that night. If the batting unit led by Silver Patidar gave a power-pack show, the bowlers removed Chennai’s part from part as they suffered their biggest defeat in Chepack.
As the IPL turns 18 years old, RCB fans will hope that they have managed to turn the corner as the hope of winning a title is more bright than ever.
Top gear straight
The years in which RCB has gone here without a win, they have come as a team that struggles to adjust the speed of the pitches in this ground. After choke the Mumbai Indians in his previous game on a slow turner, Chennai did not have a similar luxury on Friday. Instead, a bail of a pitch was on the offering, which directly put the RCB into a rest area. It is a power-pack batting line-up with good depth, and the pitch was able to display his “Play Bold” tag with pride, with the right play for its characteristics. Unlike the previous season, RCB has an excellent batting mixture, where Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal’s choice is very neatly sandwich between power hitters and enformers. If they stick to their roles, then this batting unit is more likely to be taken to the play-off.
As he showed in his previous outing against Kolkata at the Eden Gardens, it was another night where his approach immediately put the opponent on the back leg. And most of its parts were under Phil Salt, which was a talented striker at the top, which could lead to sufficient damage when the powerplay. On Friday, he lasted only to the fifth over, but by then CSK was already pushed into the corner. In the first over, he raised two borders from Khalil Ahmed, and in the next, he congratulated R Ashwin with a trick in six and collected two more boundaries to roll the ball.
If Nur Ahmed’s Dhoni’s Dhoni from the last ball of the fifth over was not for the electric-stumping, the salt set more than 32, in which he had more than 16 delivery.
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Kohli, with scraps on his way, everyone’s eyes were on the dilemma, a batsman who is losing his way in the IPL. In his second term with the franchise, he is still looking for his feet in the middle order, and a Quickfire knocking of 27 from 14 delivery is definitely not a huge contribution, but he was rich if he considers any circumstances. But as Kohli struggled for time, it was dignity that ensured that the run rate was not dipped after the salt, after two borders and several sixes.
Patidar rides on luck
His batting credentials have never had any doubt especially in the T20 format, and when RCB retained him, it did not come as a surprise. The captaincy handed over to the armband, the only question is how he would respond to the growing expectations for a franchise to give a title to the franchise. In that sense, the fast running in the season is obliged to do the world of confidence for the Patidar. And against his staunch rivals, Patidar did a grand show with the Fielders from Chennai, giving him some support as Deepak Hooda dropped a citer in the long-on and Rahul Tripathi failed to catch the ball after covering a good distance from the deep point. The cost of these drops is in the form of Chennai as 52 K52 pushed the RCB into the total, with no doubt that the hosts would be put under pressure. Beyond luck, no other batsman looks as much as Patidar when it plays the role of CSK spinners. He took his opportunities and was ready to go inside Jadeja and Noor, saving his best for Mathesh Pathirana, who was included in Shee in place of Nathan Ellis.
However, Patidar’s departure allowed Chennai to return to the end as Pathirana accepted just one run in the 19th over. However, Tim David fulfilled that RCB was largely entitled, managing RCB 196/7 in the final by hitting three consecutive sixes from Sam Curan.
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The goal was no doubt, but a round RCB was always a big ask for Chennai to overcome the RCB attack.
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And the truth can be told, until the end of the powerplay, the game was completely in the RCB bag. Two Josh Hazelwood, who raised CSK quickly, were provided by Hazelwood, who managed to take out a steep bounce on the pitch to remove Rahul Tripathi and Ruturaj Gikwad in their first over. The explosions meant that Chennai could not go anywhere near the beginning he expected. With the movement of the new ball offering, Patidar put Bhuvneshwar Kumar for another over, and he replied by removing Deepak Hooda in his third to sink Chennai. At 29/3 at the end of the powerplay, Chennai was staring at the barrel.
From there, the asking rate of Rachin kept climbing as Ravindra and Sam Curan struggled to give any speed to chase. He explored the forefathers on her, which was discovery for that one big over – which never came – which could potentially change the tide. Once when his new ball bowlers worked, Yash Dayal, Liam Livingstone and Suyash Sharma continued to tighten the grip as Chennai could hardly get off his blocks.
