Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by six wickets on the back of a 90+ run partnership between Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Sanju Samson. With this, the journey of the team led by Sanju Samson ended in the tournament. This was their last match in the group stage. At the same time, Chennai has to play their last match against Gujarat Titans on 25 May. Rajasthan and Chennai are already out of the playoff race.
In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Tuesday, Chennai Super Kings, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 187 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Rajasthan scored 188 runs for the loss of four wickets in 17.1 overs and registered their fourth win of the tournament.
Rajasthan's innings
Chasing the target, Rajasthan had a good start. Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal shared a 37-run partnership for the first wicket, which was broken by Anshul Kamboj. He bowled Jaiswal. He was dismissed after scoring 36 runs in 19 balls. After this, Suryavanshi was joined by Captain Sanju Samson. Both added 98 runs for the second wicket. Samson was dismissed after scoring 41, and Suryavanshi after scoring 57 runs. In this match, Riyan Parag could not perform well and was dismissed after scoring three runs. Dhruv Jurel remained unbeaten after scoring 31, and Shimron Hetmyer remained unbeaten after scoring 12 runs. Ashwin took two wickets for Chennai while Anshul Kamboj and Noor Ahmed got one success each.
Chennai innings
Earlier, Chennai started with a setback. Devon Conway was caught by Yudhveer Singh. He could score only 10 runs. After this, he also showed the way to the pavilion to Urvil, who could not even open the account. For Chennai, Ayush Mhatre played a big innings of 43, Dewald Brevis 42, and Shivam Duhe 39 runs. At the same time, captain Dhoni was out after scoring 16 runs with the help of a six in 17 balls. For Rajasthan, Yudhveer Singh and Akash Madhwal took three wickets each while Tushar Deshpande and Wanindu Hasranga got one wicket each.
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