Today the 68th match of IPL 2024 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai won the toss and chose to bowl first. In a do or die match, RCB scored 218 runs at the loss of five wickets in 20 overs against Chennai. In reply, Chennai could score only 191 runs after losing seven wickets in 20 overs.

rcb qualified
In the 68th match of IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore has qualified for the playoffs by winning by 27 runs. With this, Faf du Plessis’s team has become the fourth team to reach the playoffs this season. Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad had qualified. CSK’s journey ended with this defeat. Batting first, RCB scored 218 runs at the loss of five wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Chennai could score only 191 runs after losing seven wickets in 20 overs.

score table status
With seven wins in 14 matches, RCB has reached fourth place in the points table. The team now has 14 points and the net run rate is +0.459. At the same time, Kolkata is at first place with 19 points. At second and third place are the teams of Rajasthan and Hyderabad, who have 16 and 15 points respectively. Rajasthan and Hyderabad will play their last match of the league stage on Sunday. Now there will be a fight between the two for the top two.

thrill of the last over

After 19 overs, RCB needed 17 runs to qualify and 35 runs to win the match. Captain Faf Duplessis trusted Yash Dayal and handed him the ball in the last over of the innings. On the very first ball, Dhoni played a powerful shot over fine leg and hit a six of 110 meters. Now the team needed 11 runs in five balls, but Dhoni was caught out by Swapnil Singh on the very second ball. Now Shardul Thakur came to bat. No run came on the third ball. Now the team needed 11 runs in three balls. On the fourth ball, Shardul played a shot towards third man and stole a run. Now Chennai needed 10 runs from two balls to qualify. Jadeja reached the crease. Dayal bowled the last two balls of the over as dots and Jadeja could not score any runs. With this, RCB won its sixth consecutive match of the season.

chennai innings
Chennai Super Kings made a great start while chasing the target of 219 runs. Maxwell dismissed captain Ruturaj Gaikwad on the very first ball. He returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, Yash Dayal sent Daryl Mitchell to the pavilion in the third over. He could score only four runs. After this Rachin Ravindra and Ajinkya Rahane took charge. Both of them made a partnership of 66 runs for the third wicket which was broken by Lockie Ferguson. He dismissed the Indian batsman for 85 runs. Against RCB, Rahane was successful in scoring 33 runs in 22 balls. At the same time, New Zealand’s star cricketer Rachin Ravindra scored the first half-century of his career and returned to the pavilion after playing a stormy innings of 61 runs. He played an explosive inning of 61 runs in 37 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes. Shivam Dubey could score only seven runs, he was caught by Cameron Green. Apart from this, Mitchell Santner was out after scoring three runs.

Chennai lost its sixth wicket for 129 runs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni came to bat at number eight. Dhoni, who came to bat in the 16th over, made a partnership of 61 runs with Jadeja. Both faced only 27 balls. However, Yash Dayal gave the biggest blow to Chennai on the second ball of the 19th over. He got Dhoni caught out by Swapnil Singh. The former captain was successful in scoring 25 runs in 13 balls with the help of three fours and one six against RCB. While Jadeja remained unbeaten after scoring 42 runs and Shardul Thakur remained unbeaten after scoring one run. For RCB, Yash Dayal took two wickets while Maxwell, Siraj, Ferguson and Green got one wicket each.