MUMBAI, 12 Apr: Chennai Super Kings ended their four-match losing streak with a 23-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday.
\nRobin Uthappa and Shivam Dube put on a 165-run stand off 71 balls for the third wicket as Chennai scored 216-4. In reply, Bangalore was restricted to 193-9.
\nPut in to bat, Chennai slumped to 36-2 after Ruturaj Gaikwad (17) was out lbw to Josh Hazlewood and Moeen Ali was run out for 3.
\nUthappa and Dube also started slow as Chennai managed only 60 runs in the first 10 overs. But the fireworks started soon after as Uthappa hit nine sixes and four fours, while Dube smacked eight sixes and five fours.
\nBoth batsmen scored their second half-centuries of the 2022 campaign as Chennai amassed the highest score of the season.
\nUthappa got to 50 off 33 balls and finished with 88 off 50 balls. At the other end, Dube scored 95 not out off 46 balls, having reached his half-century off 30 balls.
\nTheir 150-run stand came off only 68 deliveries as Bangalore\u2019s bowlers bore the brunt on a placid wicket at the DY Patil Stadium.
\n\u201cI allowed (Shivam) Dube to get in and get set. I made sure we built a partnership,\u201d Uthappa said. \u201cWe rotated strike against spinners and pacers to use our advantage. As a team we have spent a lot of time together and gotten closer over the last few days. That (win) was a result of staying together (as a team) when we were down in the dumps.\u201d
\nIn reply, Bangalore made a poor start and was down to 42-3 in six overs.
\nMaheesh Theekshana picked 4-33 and dismissed both openers Faf du Plessis (8) and Anuj Rawat (12).
\nVirat Kohli holed out off Mukesh Choudhary for one run and the writing was on the wall for Bangalore.
\nGlenn Maxwell scored 26 off 11 balls, including two sixes, before Ravindra Jadeja bowled him.
\nShahbaz Ahmed once again top scored for Bangalore with 41 off 27 balls. Suyash Prabhudesai and Dinesh Karthik each contributed 34 runs but it wasn\u2019t enough. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI, 12 Apr: Chennai Super Kings ended their four-match losing streak with a 23-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube put on a 165-run stand off 71 balls for the third wicket as Chennai scored 216-4. In reply, Bangalore was restricted to 193-9. Put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}