In the 12th match of the IPL 2021 season, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 45 runs. Batting first after losing the toss at Mumbai’s Wankhede, CSK scored 188 for 9 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the RR team could only manage 143 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. With this win, CSK has moved up to second in the points table after Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). This is Chennai’s second win in 3 matches in a season. Earlier, CSK defeated Punjab by 6 wickets. At the same time, he suffered a 7-wicket defeat at the hands of the Delhi Capitals.
Chennai all-rounders Moeen Ali and Ravindra Jadeja overturned the match within 4 overs. Both of them sent 5 players from Rajasthan to the pavilion between the 12th and 15th. Jadeja dismissed Jos Buttler and Shivam Dubey in the 12th over. After this, Moeen sent David Miller in the 13th over and Ryan Pollen and Chris Morris in the 15th over. Jadeja also took 4 brilliant catches with 2 wickets. He took catches of Manan Vohra, Ryan, Morris, and Unadkat.
Chennai Super Kings star allrounder Sam Curran and Dwayne Bravo also praised the performance of Jadeja and Moeen in a recent interview.
Two wins in a row 👏@imjadeja's fielding brilliance 🔥
Moeen Ali's all-round performance 💪@ChennaiIPL duo @DJBravo47 & @CurranSM discuss it all post team's super win at the Wankhede. 👌 👌 – By @NishadPaiVaidya #VIVOIPL #CSKvRRFull interview 🎥 👇https://t.co/TVVpoevwys pic.twitter.com/EqI9uZZg9k
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 20, 2021
Dwayne Bravo finally scored an unbeaten 20 off 8 balls for CSK to take Chennai to a respectable score. CSK scored 61 runs in the last 5 overs and lost 4 wickets. Chris Morris took 2 wickets and Chetan Sakaria took 3 wickets from RR.
