IPL8 – Battle of the Royals – Virat Kohli clobbers Rajasthan bowlers at Motera

#IPL8 #RCBvsRR #ViratKohli #ABDevilliers #Motera #Ahmedabad It was a battle of the Royals and Virat Kohli’s day at Motera in Ahmedabad as he clobbered the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals to all corners of the stadium to help Royal Challengers Bangalore register its second win.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 24 April 2015.

Kohli hit his second successive fifty and pacer Mitchell Starc picked up three wickets as Royal Challengers Bangalore beat the opponents by nine-wickets in their IPL8 encounter at Ahmedabad.
First, RCB gave a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Rajasthan to 130 for nine and, in the chase, they easily overhauled the target with 23 balls to spare. It was an unbeaten 98-run partnership between Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers (47) for the second wicket that resulted in handing over a second successive loss to Rajasthan Royals.
The loss of Rajasthan Royals is difficult to comprehend because they had been going great guns but, suddenly, the have begun to stumble. They have young talented players and, with Rahul Dravid as mentor, was giving chances to local boys – the strategy was working fine but it needs to be modified.

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IPL8 – Chennai Super Kings mauled by Rajasthan Royals at Motera

#IPL8 #CSKvsRR #Motera #AjinkyaRahane #ShaneWatson It was a day of disappointments for Chennai Super Kings as the Rajasthan Royals mauled them on their home turf at Motera in Ahmedabad – it was the 5th straight win for RR. This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 20 April 2015.

Captain M S Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat under the scorching 43 degrees Celsius temperature and, their top three batsmen returned to the pavilion with hardly 30 runs on the board. It was then the turn of Dhoni himself and Dwayne Bravo to set things right and put up at least 180 runs on the board. But, while Bravo did bat aggressively, the same aggression was missing from Dhoni’s bat. In the end, the CSK could not go beyond 156 which was peanuts for the RR.
Dhoni is known to be one of the best finishers in T20 cricket but, this was one occasion when he looked totally at sea and could not hit the sixes as he usually does when near the finishing line. He would have this loss on his hands for a long time to come.
Chasing 157 for their 5th consecutive win at their adopted home ground at Motera, RR posted a 144-run record opening stand between skipper Watson (73 off 47 balls) and Rahane (76 not out). RR made it home 18.2 overs to hand CSK their first loss in IPL8.

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