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Nitish Rana shine in CSK vs RR match today
Man of the Match, Nitish Rana was on fire against CSK today and has helped RR recover from the early fall of wickets. As of Now, Rajasthan Royals is 182-9 in 20 overs. Nitish Rana has played a superb knock 82(33) and hit 5 sixes and 10 fours. Before that, Sanju Samson could score just 15 runs and caught out Noor Ahmed bowling on long off while trying to clear the ropes.
Rajasthan Royals inning
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal also got out for just 4 runs by Khaleel Ahmed. Hasaranga failed again as a batsman and got out at just 4 runs on a splendid catch at the boundary by Vijay Shankar. Shimron Hetmyer 19(16) is on strike. Archer 0(1) and Riyan Parag 37(28) got out on a toe-crushing yorker from Pathirana. Riyan Parag also catches an injury on his hand in the last bowl. Kartikeya Singh is the Impact player from RR in today’s match. Shivam Dubey will be the impact player from CSK. Noor, Khaleel and Pathirana took 2 wickets each for CSK.
Chennai Super Kings inning
Before that, CSK won the toss and elected to bowl first. RR’s start was not good, as it had been in the last two matches. CSK has one change in Jamie Overton and Vijay Shankar are playing today replacing Deepak Hooda and Sam Curran. Tushar Deshpande is playing today for RR. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad played an impactful inning of 63(44) with 7 fours and 1 six. The impact substitute Shivam Dubey played a quick 18 runs from 10 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes.
Climax encounter
Hasaranga has taken crucial wickets of Dubey, Tripathi, Gaikwad and Vijay Shankar. with a bowling figure of 4 overs 35-4. The most important pair of Dhoni-Jadeja is on the pitch and CSK needs 9 of the last 1 balls to win this match against RR and Sandeep Sharma to do this over. Dhoni caught out on the first ball of the final over with a magnificent catch from Hetmyer. Jamie Overton hit a six on the 4th ball. CSK need 9 run on the last ball and Overton could score only 2 runs. RR won by 6 runs and this is the first ever win from RR in the Tata IPL 2025.
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