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VIDEO: AB de Villiers” 68 off 30 balls masterclass innings against Chennai Super Kings

Yesterday night at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, the South African star AB de Villiers displayed a masterclass batting against Chennai Super Kings. CSK captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first. Virat Kohli and Quinton de Kock opened the innings, added 35 runs for the first wicket as RCB captain Kohli was dismissed by Shardul Thakur for 18 runs.

AB de Villiers came at number 3 in the 5th over and started to dominate Harbhajan Singh. He continued to put pressure on Chennai Super Kings bowlers with his innovative batting. De Villiers hit a reverse sweep of Imran Tahir bowling and then smashed South African counterpart for a massive 111 m six. Both de Kock and AB de Villiers added 103 runs for the second wicket.

De Kock reached his half-century off 35 balls while de Villiers completed his half-century off just 23 balls to put RCB in a comfortable position. Imran Tahir dismissed AB de Villiers for 68 runs off 30 balls with 2 fours and 8 sixes. Mandeep Singh contributed quick fire 32 runs off 17 balls helping Royal Challengers Bangalore to post a massive total of 205 for 8 in 20 overs.

While chasing, Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers picked 4 quick wickets. Things looked tough for CSK but Rayadu and Dhoni added 101 runs for the 5th wicket. Rayadu was dismissed for 82 off 53 balls. CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit the winning shot and remained not out on 70 runs off just 34 balls to help CSK side by 5 wickets in a high scoring thriller.

Royal Challengers Bangalore has won 2 matches and lost 4, are at the 6th place. AB de Villiers is currently at number 2 position in terms of leading scorer with 280 runs from 6 matches just 3 behind Rayadu. The two matches RCB won because of the genius AB de Villiers.

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