IPL 2021 CSK vs RCB: The 19th match of the Indian Premier League 2021 is being played between CSK and RCB at Wankhede Stadium Mumbai. CSK won the toss and elected to bat first and made 191 runs with the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs.
CSK achieved this score only because of one man in their team known as Ravindra Jadeja.
Ravindra Jadeja completely destroyed the current Purple cap Holder Harshal Patel in the 20th over of CSK’s innings.
He smashed Harshal for mind-boggling 37 runs and became the joint record holder of scoring the most runs in an over in the IPL history.
Earlier, Chris Gayle was the sole holder of this record which he made in the IPL 2011 against Kochi Tuskers.
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Jadeja hit 5 sixes and 1 four in this over in which 1 six came on the free hit.
Jadeja destroyed the line and length of Harshal Patel’s bowling in the 20th over who was phenomenal before this over and took 3 wickets in 3 overs.
This was also the most expensive 20th over in the IPL history. Jadeja scored 62 runs in just 28 balls and hit 5 sixes and 4 fours.
This helped CSK to get to 191 runs who were earlier struggling to even reach 160 runs.
Other than Jadeja, Faf Du Plessis also added valuable runs in CSK innings and scored 50 runs off 41 balls.
CSK’s performance this season is phenomenal till now. They have won 3 matches in the 4 matches played till now.
RCB on the other hand is also playing fabulously and haven’t lost a single match till now.
CSK included Dwayne Bravo and Imran Tahir and RCB also included Dan Christian and Navdeep Saini for this match.
It will be interesting to see who will win this match as both teams are currently fighting to add 2 more points in their tally.
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