IPL 2022 CSK vs RCB highlights: Uthappa, Dube carnage leads Chennai to 23-run win over Bangalore

A real treat of a match which had a bit of everything and in the end, Chennai Super Kings finally have a win in their hands. They needed to score the highest total of the season to finally defend something. Now we will see what the other big daddies of the IPL - Mumbai Indians - do as they chase their first win of the season. They face the Punjab Kings tomorrow in Pune, see you there!

I thought I'll rotate the strike and thought when Maxwell came on in the third over, that was the time to take him on. Just made sense at that point for me to take on offspinner and when Hasaranga was bowling, I thought I'd feed Dube the strike because he is a big striker.

Siraj ends the match with a helicopter shot that sends the ball barreling down the ground for four. Good impression of MS Dhoni there but RCB are well beaten. They were in the chase here and there, first when Shahbaz and Prabhudessai were going and then when DK sent shivers down the CSK spine. But 217 is just too much for a team to chase, particularly when the likes of du Plessis and Maxwell fail to fire. 

It's six sixes or broke now, unless Dwayne Bravo bowls about 4 overs worth of no balls or wides here. Highly unlikely.

Jadeja takes the catch at the boundary ropes and falls down in sheer relief. Bravo keeps DK quiet with two wides and a dot ball after which the latter goes for an almighty heave at a length ball. He has got enough on it but it is going to the longer deep midwicket boundary. It is Jadeja right at the edge and he takes the catch above his head, throws his arms standing where he is in celebration before falling down flat on his back. That should be the game.  

Karthik c Jadeja b Bravo 34 (14), RCB 171/9 in 17.2 overs

Brings down the equation to 59 needed off 22 balls. Karthik smacks Choudhary for two sixes off the first two balls of the 17th over. Short ball pulled away first and then length ball that is flicked away to the same area. Dhoni has a word with the bowler after that second ball.

That is a ridiculous catch from Rayudu. Akash Deep takes a jab, the ball lobs up and Rayudu runs in before diving and taking the ball in the air one-handed. Sensational stuff. 

Akash Deep c Rayudu b Jadeja 7 (3), RCB 146/8 in 15.4 overs

Hasaranga hits a six and then holes out at long-on. He swings away and gets his timing all wrong. Hasaranga is livid with himself, the target is not yet completely out of reach and RCB could have stood a chance if he had stood with DK for a little while longer. 

Hasaranga c Jordan b Jadeja 7 (3), RCB 146/7 in 15.2 overs.

Theekshana decides that he will take matters into his own hands and bowls through Shahbaz's gates. The ball fizzes back in and Shahbaz is hurried into a defensive stroke. He ends up being all over the place and the ball hits the stumps behind him. The team go off in celebrations and Dhoni is then seeing having a word with the young Choudhary. 

Shahbaz b Theekshana 41 (27), RCB 133/6 off 14.3 overs.

Mukesh Choudhary got the wicket of Virat Kohli but he has now dropped two straightforward catches. 

They need 86 to win off the last 36 balls. Shahbaz Ahmed is on 40 off 25 balls, Dinesh Karthik is on six off three. The asking rate has hovered around the 14.5 mark.

It's that man Theekshana again and Prabhudessai has been dismissed. Prabhudessai steps out for a big heave, misses the ball completely and it goes and hits the stumps. 

Prabhudessai b Theekshana 34 (18), RCB 110/5 in 12.2 overs

Oh the RCB eyes are lighting up. Prabhudessai hits it straight down the throat of deep midwicket off Bravo but Choudhary puts down the easiest of catches. 

Shahbaz dishes out a cover drive and beats the fielder at the ropes. Shahbaz and Prabhudessai has put up 57 runs off just 28 balls. Remember, there is still Dinesh Karthik left in this lineup. They couldn't do it, could they?

This is a funny old game so you can't yet rule out RCB. Suyash Prabhudessai, who was lightning in the field today, smacks a four and a six off Jadeja to take RCB into the three-figure zone.

RCB are ahead of CSK in terms of the run rate curve, considering this was the time when Uthappa and Dube were starting to tee off. However, the wickets, and the fact that all of their best players are back in the hut, are a matter of concern for RCB. 

The first timeout of the innings is taken. RCB are 73/4, need 144 to win off 66 balls. They need far more than one four an over but it is certainly a good place to start. Shahbaz sweeps Jadeja to get a boundary for the embattled RCB.

And that might just be the game. Jadeja gets the big wicket for his team and he will certainly be feeling a lot easier about life at the moment.

Maxwell b Jadeja 26 (11), RCB 50/4 off 6.5 overs

Anuj Rawat is out LBW and he also wastes a review on the decision. RCB in all sorts at the moment.

Glenn Maxwell is in the house! He first clobbers Theekshana over long-off and then the fourth ball of the sixth over is sent over deep midwicket. Maxwell goes for a big one again, miscues it completely and it is just past Jadeja at mid-off. 

Young Mukesh Choudhary has snaffled the big fish. Length from Choudhary, Kohli swivels around and hits it straight to deep backward square leg where the fielder runs in from the ropes and takes a sharp catch. That fielder is Shivam Dube, of course he is. 

Kohli c Dube b Choudhary 1 (3), RCB 20/2

First wicket in the IPL for Theekshana and what a wicket it ease. Du Plessis swings away and sends it straight down the throat of long-on.

Du Plessis c Jordan b Theekshana 8 (9); RCB 14/1 off 2.5 overs

As Ian Bishop pointed out in the commentary box, RCB are content with going slow in the powerplay this season. They have scored 11 runs in the first two overs. 

Du Plessis gets off strike off the second ball after which Rawat fends off the rest of the over. He tries a reverse sweep off the fifth ball, misses it completely and is lucky that it did not crash onto the stumps. 

It's Faf du Plessis and Anuj Rawat who will open the RCB innings. CSK are opening with Moeen Ali. Interesting choice from the four-time champions, CSK might just be trying something for Du Plessis here.