The Chennai Super Kings thrash Royal Challengers Bangalore in a heavyweight clash in IPL 2021. The day belonged to Ravindra Jadeja to completely turned the match with his all-around skills. The RCB was keeping a lid on the scoring rate of CSK until the last over when Jadeja went beserk against Harshal Patel.
He smashed 37 runs in the last over and it proved to be a game-changer as Chennai Super Kings posted 191 runs on the board. In the run chase, Devdutt Padikkal started from where he left in the next match and he looked in full command of his strokeplay.
Chennai Super Kings Win Against Royal Challengers Bangalore
Then against the run of play CSK prized out the wicket of Virat Kohli after which Royal Challengers Bangalore completely lost the plot. The pitch started holding up and immediately Dhoni introduced his match-winner Ravindra Jadeja in the attack.
He removed both Glenn Maxwell and Ab de Villiers after which RCB kept on losing wickets. Jadeja had figures of 3 for 13 with the ball, 62 in 28 with the bat and you add a run-out in the field it was nothing short of a dream day for the star CSK all-rounder.
Who Said What?
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Eventually, Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 69 runs and reach the top of the IPL 2021 table. Here’s what the captains said in the post-match presentation. As expected Ravindra Jadeja was announced as the man of the match.
” You have to look at it the right way. It’s come at the right time for us. You have to understand the things that went wrong. I think this is positive feedback for our side. It’s good to get a performance like this out of the way early in the season. We were there most of the moments in the game, but the key ones we lost badly. Jaddu displaying his skills took the game away from us”.
“You can probably say one guy beat us. We will continue to give him responsibility [Harshal] he got both the set batsmen out and plucked all the momentum away. We have to look at this in the right way. Brush it aside and learn from it. We will continue to use guys at 3 because we have Maxi and AB to follow. We will continue to use that depth. We’ll throw in guys there and ask them to change the game for us. [Jadeja] I am very happy to see him perform with the bat, ball and on the field. Always a pleasure to see your premier all-rounder do well with the bat”, said Kohli.
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“Jaddu is somebody who can change the game on his own. In the last few years we’ve seen significant change in batting and it’s worth it to give him that extra bit of time, extra deliveries. The bowlers have found it difficult to contain left-handers, and that helps as well. You can’t really predict the quantum of victory. There’s no control to how many runs or wickets. When we started we had the conversation about whether to bat or bowl. It’s a good wicket but I felt the spinners had something up their sleeves and I felt that extra few runs Jadeja made helped”.
“165 would have been par, and once you get 25 extra the opposition has to come a little harder. You cannot make your strategy on the assumption of what dew will do – frankly, some games have been high scoring, some have been low scoring. You have to assess every game and today we made the right decision to bat. We’re not doing anything drastically different from what we did last year. Me and Fleming, we keep saying that we focus on the process”, said Dhoni.
“[Has he had a better day?] Don’t think so. (laughs) I’ve been working hard on my fitness, skill, everything. Luckily it paid off. It’s been a tough job being allrounder, you have to do all departments. During training I don’t work on all three, I do skill work one day, training one day, fitness one day. I was just looking to hit it hard. Mahi bhai told me he would bowl somewhere outside off and luckily I connected. Today was not my day [because he didn’t take a catch]”, said Jadeja.
