Royal Challengers Bangalore continued their excellent start to the IPL 2026 season by winning their second consecutive match. Bengaluru, captained by Rajat Patidar, once again showed why it is the current champion. In its second match of the season against Chennai Super Kings, RCB scored 250 runs on the basis of explosive innings by all the batsmen including Tim David, which is the biggest score of this season. After this, the bowlers including Jacob Duffy and Bhuvneshwar Kumar also performed equally well and bowled out Chennai for 207 runs and won by 43 runs.
Losing all three matches of the beginning last season at its home ground M Chinnaswamy Bengaluru This time won both the matches. After starting the new season with a successful chase of more than 200 runs against Sunrisers, Bengaluru also destroyed Chennai with its batting power on Sunday 5 April. This is Bengaluru’s fourth consecutive win against CSK. The team won the second match after losing the first match in the 2024 season and then won both the matches in the last season.
RCB batsmen including David hit sixes
For the team, Virat Kohli and Phil Salt started showing their colors from the fourth over after a slow start. Kohli (28) was out after playing a short but sharp innings, while Salt (46) took charge and gave momentum to the score. After these two, Devdutt Padikkal (50), who was in excellent form, attacked Chennai and scored his second consecutive half-century and took the team beyond 150 runs. But the real game was done by Captain Patidar and Tim David. Together they scored 97 runs in the last 5 overs, in which 70 runs came from David’s bat in 25 balls.
He looted 30 runs in the 19th over itself and hit a total of 8 sixes and 3 fours in his innings. These 8 sixes came in 16 consecutive balls, when the ball was going only outside the boundary. Patidar also scored unbeaten 48 runs (6 sixes) in 19 balls. RCB, which did not hit a single boundary in the first 3 overs, ended the match with 19 sixes and 14 fours.
CSK’s top order failed again
After batting, it was the turn of RCB bowlers and once again Jacob Duffy provided initial successes. Like the previous two matches, the top order of Chennai Super Kings once again disappointed. The opening pair of captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (7) and Sanju Samson (9) again failed and 3 wickets fell for just 30 runs. Meanwhile, Sarfaraz Khan (50) attacked as soon as he came and scored a half-century in just 25 balls but Krunal Pandya dismissed him and took 2 wickets in a single over.
After losing 5 wickets for just 84 runs, CSK’s defeat seemed certain but even after this, hopes were pinned on Shivam Dubey (18). But he too was out on the score of 108. After this, young players Prashant Veer (43) and Jamie Overton (37) added a quick 57 runs but Bhuvneshwar Kumar ended all hopes by breaking this pair. After this, the margin of defeat was reduced only by CSK and finally the team was all out in 19.4 overs. Bhuvneshwar took maximum 3 wickets for Bengaluru, while Duffy, Krunal and Abhinandan Singh also got 2 wickets each.
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