Ravindra Jadeja’s all-round brilliance sinks RCB
Ravindra Jadeja hands CSK momentum with the bat, then spins a web around RCB with the ball.
IPL 2022 CSK vs RCB Prediction 2022 Today Match: Ravindra Jadeja celebrates. (PTI Photo/Sportzpics for IPL) Ravindra Jadeja underlined why he is such a vital cog in the Chennai Super Kings machinery with a thoroughly dominant all-round performance that knocked the sails out of Royal Challengers Bangalore. He set it up with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 28-ball 62, a staggering display of power-hitting, pummelling IPL 2021’s Purple Cap holder Harshal Patel for 37 runs in the final over of CSK’s innings. With the ball, he snared the wickets of Washington Sundar, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers, and affected Dan Christian’s run-out to hand Virat Kohli’s team its first loss of the season.
Jadeja grabs momentum with the bat
The IPL can be a cruel tournament. All it requires is one over to destroy a reputation and shatter a player’s confidence. Harshal Patel has been RCB’s numero uno bowler this season, showcasing his wares as their death-overs specialist. Three overs into Sunday’s game, the pacer had 15 wickets, all scalped during the second half of the innings (between overs 11-20). In fact, it was his double strike in the 14th over — with the wickets of Suresh Raina and Fat du Plessis — that ignited RCB’s hopes of restricting CSK to a score below 170, heading into the final over. All that changed, thanks to Jadeja’s brutal power-hitting. The all-rounder smoked five sixes and a boundary off Patel to collect 37 runs that propelled CSK to 191/4 after 20 overs. It was the joint-most expensive over ever in IPL history that put MS Dhoni’s team in a position of ascendancy at the halfway stage.
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