New Delhi. In the 22nd match of IPL 2022, Chennai Super Kings faced Royal Challengers Bangalore at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, RCB captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to field first. Batting first, Chennai scored 216 for 4 in 20 overs on the basis of half-centuries from Uthappa and Shivam Dube. Bangalore’s team could only score 193 runs for 9 wickets and Chennai got the first win.
Bangalore innings, lost after reaching close
Chasing a huge target of 217 runs from Chennai, Bangalore suffered a setback in the beginning. Captain Faf du Plessis scored just 8 runs and was caught by Chris Jordan off the ball of Mahesh Teeksha. Virat Kohli returned after scoring 1 run and caught Teekshna off the ball of Shivam Dubey. Teekshna trapped Anuj Rawat in front of the stumps on the score of 12 runs and gave another success to the team. Glenn Maxwell was sent back after being clean bowled by captain Ravindra Jadeja on the score of 26 runs.
Suyash Prabhudesai, who played the first match, played a brilliant innings of 34 runs in 18 balls, Teekshna made him clean bowled. After this, Tekshna forced Shahbaz, who was batting fiercely on 41 runs, to go back after clean bowling. Captain Jadeja sent back Vanindu Hasaranga to get the seventh success for the team himself.
CSK’s innings, Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube’s half-centuries
Chennai team’s opener batsman Rituraj Gaikwad did not shine even in the fifth consecutive match and lost his wicket on the ball of Jose Hazlewood on the score of just 17 runs. Moeen Ali’s bat also did not get a run in this match and he was run out after scoring 3 runs. Robin Uthappa played an innings of 88 runs in 50 balls with the help of 9 sixes and 4 fours and was caught out. At the same time, captain Jadeja was caught without opening the account. Shivam Dube scored an unbeaten 95 off 46 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 5 fours. Two for Hasranga while Hazlewood got a breakthrough for RCB.
RCB made two changes, CSK did not change the team
In this crucial match against RCB, CSK did not make any changes in their playing XI. At the same time, RCB made two changes in this match and Jose Hazlewood and Suyash Prabhudesai got a place in the playing XI.
CSK playing XI
Robin Uthappa, Rituraj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja (captain), MS Dhoni (wk), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Mahesh Thikshana, Mukesh Choudhary.
RCB playing XI
Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Vanendu Hasranga, Jos Hazlewood, Mohammad Siraj, Suyash Prabhudesai, Akash Deep.
Chennai’s team has lost four matches in a row and they will be desperate to register their first win against RCB. However, RCB seems to be in a stronger position than CSK at the moment. RCB have won three out of the four matches so far and are at number three in the points table with 6 points while CSK do not have a single point and are at number ten.
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