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IPL 2018, Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Pune, latest update and cricket score: Chennai Super Kings register a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore! Chennai Super Kings chase the target down 128/4 in 18th over with MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo remaining unbeaten on 31 and 14 respectively. Preview: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will aim to improve their bowling and fielding and return to their winning ways when they take on Royal Challengers Bangalore (IPL) in a crunch Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter on Saturday. Batting-heavy CSK slipped to a six-wicket defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Thursday night due to some sloppy fielding and a poor bowling effort. The KKR spinners bowled superbly to keep the MS Dhoni-led team to 177/5. Shubman Gill and Dinesh Karthik then made the most of some inexperienced bowling by the likes of K.M. Asif to get KKR past the line. Ravindra Jadeja also dropped KKR opener Sunil Narine twice on 6 off consecutive deliveries. CSK also lost comprehensively to Mumbai Indians by eight wickets on April 28, resulting in them dropping to second spot in the points table. The CSK batters have been doing well with Ambati Rayudu, Australian Shane Watson, West Indian Dwayne Bravo, skipper Dhoni and Suresh Raina contributing regularly. Rayudu, especially, has batted well both as an opener and at number four, scoring 391 runs so far. Dhoni, who remained unbeaten on 43 against KKR, has reminded his critics that he is not past his prime and will be expected to continue his purple patch with the bat against Virat Kohli-led RCB. The CSK bowlers had been generally impressive with Shardul Thakur at the top. But in their defeats against MI and KKR, the bowling attack could not defend the scores put up by their batters and appears to be missing the services of injured Deepak Chahar. The pacers and the spinners led by veteran Harbhajan Singh need to play to potential to restrict a devastating RCB batting line-up, spearheaded by Kohli. RCB, who beat Mumbai by 14 runs in their last game, will be eager to avenge their five-wicket defeat at home against CSK. It is a must-win game for Kohli and Co who are in the fifth spot, having won three of their eight matches. RCB too have some batting problems with only Kohli leading from the front, amassing 449 runs in nine matches. RCB will expect to welcome back star South African batsman AB de Villiers, who missed out games due to fever. He has scored 280 runs in six games and has looked in fine touch. They also require Quinton de Kock (201 runs in 8 games) and Brendon McCullum (122 runs in 5 games), who are yet to play to their potential, to chip in. Kohli’s bone of contention has been RCB’s death bowling as they have leaked runs in this phase. Umesh Yadav (11 wickets) and Yuzvendra Chahal (7 wickets) have stamped their class, but Mohammad Siraj and Washington Sunder (four wickets) have performed below par. The squads: CSK: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Kanishk Seth, Lungi Ngidi, Dhruv Shorey, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings, Mark Wood, Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, N. Jagadeesan, David Willey. RCB: Virat Kohli (captain), Quinton de Kock, Brendon McCullum, AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Washington Sundar, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Colin de Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Siraj, Corey Anderson, Parthiv Patel, Tim Southee. With inputs from IANS
Highlights, IPL 2018, CSK vs RCB at Pune, Full Cricket Score: Chennai Super Kings beat Bangalore by 6 wickets
Chennai Super Kings register a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore! Chennai Super Kings chase the target down 128/4 in 18th over with MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo remaining unbeaten on 31 and 14 respectively.
 "Highlights, IPL 2018, CSK vs RCB at Pune, Full Cricket Score: Chennai Super Kings beat Bangalore by 6 wickets")
Chennai Super Kings register a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore!
Chennai Super Kings chase the target down 128/4 in 18th over with MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo remaining unbeaten on 31 and 14 respectively.
Chahal overstepped before Dhoni thwacked the last couple of sixes. The ball he overstepped was the one MSD missed it and when Chahal turned to appeal and to his dismay he saw the Umpire’s hand extended horizontally rather than his finger. He would have been out as the ball seemed to be heading towards the stumps. While it might not have impacted the final result, but could have made things interesting.
After 17 overs,Chennai Super Kings 106/4 ( MS Dhoni (C) (W) 12 , Dwayne Bravo 13)
CSK nudge around six easy singles off the over. De Grandhomme finishes with 16 runs and a wicket off his quota. 22 needed off 18 balls. Big decisions to make for Kohli.Southee has 1, Yadav has 1 over left. Who will bowl the remaining one over between Ashwin, Siraj, Chahal and who will bowl the penultimate and ultimate over, that is if the match goes into the 20th over. Also who is MS Dhoni looking to target?
After 16 overs,Chennai Super Kings 100/4 ( MS Dhoni (C) (W) 9 , Dwayne Bravo 11)
Couple of poor deliveries by Murugan Ashwin prove to be costly for the visiting side as the pressure that was accumulated over the past few overs is not released. 100 up for CSK. 11 runs off the over and now they need 28 off 24 balls.
After 15 overs,Chennai Super Kings 89/4 ( MS Dhoni (C) (W) 5 , Dwayne Bravo 4)
How well have Colin de Grandhomme bowled here! He hasn’t not let anything loose helping RCB claw back into the game. 39 needed off last five overs. How deep is CSK planning to take this? They will be discussing in the time-out.
After 14 overs,Chennai Super Kings 86/4 ( MS Dhoni (C) (W) 4 , Dwayne Bravo 2)
Another four-run over for CSK. RCB are pulling things back late in the second innings. Pressure slowly mounting on Chennai. 42 off 36 required.
After 13 overs,Chennai Super Kings 82/4 ( MS Dhoni (C) (W) 1 , Dwayne Bravo 1)
De Grandhomme delivers a fine over here! He could have had two wickets in a over had Parthiv held his chance behind the stumps. Only two runs off it.
OUT! Well..well is there a twist in the tale? Colin de Grandhomme with the wicket as Shorey cannot keep his cut down and it went straight to Mandeep Singh at backward point.
D Shorey c Mandeep b de Grandhomme 8(9)
After 12 overs,Chennai Super Kings 80/3 ( Dhruv Shorey 8 , MS Dhoni (C) (W) 0)
MS Dhoni comes in at five, almost cut one straight to the point fielder with the ball dropping just short off the fielder. Couple of wides by Ashwin. And MSD fails to get off the mark in the five balls he faced. Shorey denied MSD for a single to short third, wasn’t really on there, props to the 25-year old. Can RCB wage a late comeback here?
MS Dhoni in IPL 11:
43* (25), 51* (22), 26 (21), 70* (34), 25* (12), 5 (3), 79* (44), 25 (28), 5 (5)
Can he take his team home today?
OUT! Rayudu cannot believe what he has done here! Ashwin is lucky to get the wicket off the first ball off his spell. It was a short delivery that Rayudu look to force off the back foot and slam it out of the ground, lost his shape while playing it and instead sliced it to short third man fielder.
A Rayudu c Siraj b Murugan Ashwin 32(25)
After 11 overs,Chennai Super Kings 78/2 ( Ambati Rayudu 32 , Dhruv Shorey 8)
The poor ball was dispatched to the boundary and then CSK didn’t really had to search for too many runs. Three more singles off the over. 50 required off 54 balls.
The first half of this chase clearly belongs to CSK. They have picked the weak balls to score big runs. Just four bowlers used till now in first 10 overs and this is very unusual in this tournament.
After 10 overs,Chennai Super Kings 71/2 ( Ambati Rayudu 27 , Dhruv Shorey 7)
Siraj starts with a fulltoss that Rayudu was unable to the connection that he would have desired. Inside edge onto the pads allows a single. Shorey gets his first IPL run to mid on, not completely convincing though. Some signs of extra bounce on offer, Rayudu does it well to keep it down. While Shorey doesn’t keep the pull over fine leg down as the ball sails over the boundary line.
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