Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: IPL – as it happened
All our updates as holders Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by six wickets in the IPL 2024 opener.
- Defending champions Chennai Super Kings open the Indian Premier League 2024 season with a six-wicket win against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
- New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra top scored on IPL debut with 38 for CSK while Anuj Raway salvaged the RCB innings with an unbeaten 48.
- Defending champions Chennai Super Kings open the Indian Premier League 2024 season with a six-wicket win against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
- New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra top scored on IPL debut with 38 for CSK while Anuj Raway salvaged the RCB innings with an unbeaten 48.
- Chennai beat Gujarat Titans by five wickets in a final-ball victory in last year’s rain-reduced final.
- This is the 17th edition of the IPL and the Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have each won the title a record five times.
- Bengaluru have reached the final on three occasions but are yet to be crowned champions.
Goodbye for Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
That’s it from our live coverage of the opening match of IPL 2024.
The defending champions open with a six-wicket win with eight balls to spare.
Rachin Ravindra top scored for CSK on his IPL debut with 37. Anuj Rawat lead a recovery from 77-5 for RCB with his unbeaten 48.
Mustafizur Rahman was the start with the ball as the left armer claimed 4-24 off his four overs to force the early innings collapse by CSK.
We hope you enjoyed the live action and we’ll be back on Saturday with Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad so do join us for that if you can.
For now though, from me Kevin Hand, its goodbye but don’t forget you can stay up-to-date with all our sports coverage, news and features here.
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Rachin Ravindra hails CSK dressing room after top scoring with 37
“It was a pretty complete performance by us on a good wicket,” he told Sky Sports.
“This team is very good at slowing the game down and there are such good guys in the dressing room to learn from.”
RCB captain Faf du Plessis gives his response
“When you play here you fell like you need to get ahead of the game at the start because their spinners get on top in the middle,” he told Sky Sports.
“In the end, I thought we were only 15 or 20 runs short.”
Chennai Super Kings win by six wickets
A pull for six by Dube off Joseph set it up and then two leg byes sealed it.
18 overs. Chennai Super Kings 164-4
Four dot balls from Siraj, but two fours as Dube selects his shots and his side to the verge of victory.
Ten to win from 12 balls.
17 overs. Chennai Super Kings 156-4
A costly over and that could and should be that.
Joseph concedes 12 with the addition of four byes, as well.
Rawat lept to stop the byes, but hurt his finger in the process and there was a long delay as the physio came on.
Eighteen needed from 18 balls.
16 overs. Chennai Super Kings 140-4
A good over for CSK as Dube runs Green fine off his hip for four off the second ball and 12 are taken in total even though that was the only boundary.
The Australian bowler did help by throwing in a wide.
15 overs. Chennai Super Kings 128-4
Siraj returns and concedes just six runs with two twos and two singles.
Forty-six needed from 30.
14 overs. Chennai Super Kings 121-4
Maxwell enters the attack for the first time and is welcomed by a six from Jadeja off the second ball.
A little skip was required to smash the ball over long-on.
Just a single off the over otherwise.
13 overs. Chennai Super Kings 114-4
Jadeja, the hero of the 2023 final, arrives in the middle to incredible noise.
Sixty needed from 42. One partnership should do it from here and it’s still CSK’s to lose.
WICKET! Mitchell is out! Chennai Super Kings 110-4
Mitchell pulls Green straight to long-on and falls for 22 from 18.
Could RCB find a way back? 12.3 overs bowled.
12 overs. Chennai Super Kings 109-3
No boundary in the over with just seven conceded and it’s 65 to win from 48.
A couple of wickets now would make it interesting.
A better start for Joseph
His first over started with a six. This time, the first three balls concede three singles.
11 overs. Chennai Super Kings 99-3
Dube joins Mitchell in the middle as three singles finish out the over following the wicket of Green.
WICKET! Rahane is gone! Chennai Super Kings 99-3
Green comes into the attack and sees his first ball called a wide, the second was pulled for six and then the third claimed Rahane.
Another attempted back foot pick-up, but this one is well claimed by Maxwell on the rope. Rahane falls for 27 off 19.
Ten overs. Chennai Super Kings 92-2
Dagar continues with his tight line and just four singles are taken.
RCB were 75-3 at this stage.
Nine overs Chennai Super Kings 88-2
Mitchell hammers consecutive sixes back over Karn’s head midway through the over.
The first was over long-on and the second long-off. Brilliant from the Kiwi.
Eight overs. Chennai Super Kinds 73-2
Dagar enters the attack after the timeout and concedes just two singles. Mitchell is the new batter for CSK.
WICKET! Ravindra falls! Chennai Super Kings 71-2
Karn drops short and Ravindra makes no mistake. A huge pull for six by the left-hander off the leg spinner.
The next ball is another attempted pick-up, but instead, the ball sails down the throat of deep square and Ravindra falls for 37 from 15.
Strategic timeout called at the end of the seventh over.
Over to Karn
The leg spinner concedes just two off his first three balls.
Six overs. Chennai Super Kings 62-1
Over throws to end the over as Rahane dropped a single into the off side and the throw to the non-striker’s end hit the stumps and deflected away.
Dayal concedes 13 off the over.
RCB were 42-3 at this stage.
Rahane’s first boundary is a six
The right-hander hammers Dayal for a six over deep extra-cover. An extraordinary drive.
Five overs. Chennai Super Kings 49-1
Joseph gets out of the over with two singles, a two and a wide.
There was one huge appeal for LBW from the bowler, but the ball clearly hit the edge. No review was used.
Joseph is welcomed with a six
The West Indies seamer drops short with his first ball and the left-handed Ravindra pulls over deep square.
WICKET! Gaikwad edges. Chennai Super Kings 38-1
Dayal drifted onto the pads of the right-handed Gaikwad and the ball flicked fine for four more.
The odds were stacking against RCB by Dayal sends a length ball across the right hander with the final delivery of the over and it’s nicked to Green at slip.
The CSK’s skipper falls for 15 from 15. End of the fourth over.