RCB vs CSK: One over, 2 bowlers, and 10 balls, Royal Challengers Bangalore's mistake that won Chennai Super Kings
RCB vs CSK: Chennai Super Kings registered their third win of the season on Monday at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Like every time, it rained heavily in Chinnaswamy this time too. Both teams scored more than 200 runs. Chennai Super Kings won this match till the last over by 8 runs. Chennai had scored 226 runs while batting first. These runs would have been slightly less if RCB had not made a big mistake in the last over.
The last over turned game and the last over was bowled by Harshal Patel
The team of Chennai Super Kings came out to bat first. On the basis of the half-centuries of Devon Conway and Shivam Dubey, the team scored 210 runs in 19 overs. RCB's effort was to get at least runs in the last over. Harshal Patel was handed the ball to bowl this crucial over and what happened next was beyond RCB's expectations.
Not one but two bowlers bowled the last over from RCB. In this over, 10 balls were bowled instead of six and a total of 16 runs came. A single came off the first ball of the over. After this, the next ball was called a no-ball due to the high full toss. Only one run came on the free hit.
The third ball of the over was wide. After this, the extra ball was also a high full toss. Harshal Patel was dropped for bowling two full tosses in an over.
Glenn Maxwell completes the over, and Chennai has an advantage of 8 runs
There were four balls left in the over. Glenn Maxwell comes in to complete the over for Harshal. Ravindra Jadeja hit a six on the first ball as soon as he arrived. Maxwell bowled the next ball under pressure and then got Ravindra Jadeja caught out. Only runs came off the last two balls.
Only 8 runs came from the bat in this over but due to no ball and wide, Chennai got 8 more and their score reached 226. that's eight runs
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