Mustafizur stars as Gaikwad's CSK begin title defence with comfy win over RCB

Chennai Super Kings 176 for 4 (Ravindra 37, Dube 34*, Green 2-27) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 173 for six (Rawat 48, Karthik 38*, du Plessis 35, Mustafizur 4-29) by six wickets

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RCB's Jekyll-and-Hyde powerplay

After being on 37 for no loss within the first 4 overs, RCB misplaced three wickets for 5 runs within the subsequent two overs.

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Mustafizur goes bang-bang as soon as once more

Mustafizur then returned within the twelfth over and dismissed Virat Kohli and Green within the house of three balls. While Kohli dragged a pull off a seam-up supply to deep midwicket for 21 off 20 balls, Green was bowled by a whippy cutter for 18 off 22 balls. It was Mustafizur's second double-wicket over.

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Rawat and Karthik prop up RCB

That RCB completed with 173 for six was right down to a counter-attacking 95-run partnership for the sixth wicket off simply 50 balls that ended off the final ball of the innings courtesy a Dhoni direct hit.

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At one stage, RCB went 28 balls with no boundary, however Rawat then hit two in six balls to set RCB up for the tip overs. He then walloped Deshpande for six,6, 4 in a 25-run 18th over. At the opposite finish, Karthik appeared rusty to begin with, however combined energy with iventiveness to offer RCB's innings extra impetus.

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Dube will get the job accomplished for CSK

After CSK misplaced Gaikwad within the powerplay, Rachin Ravindra lined up RCB's quicks with pulls and pick-up photographs. He even whacked Karn Sharma over midwicket for six, however when he went for an additional six, he holed out to deep square-leg.

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