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In the end, Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat formed a stormy pair. With their pair, Royal Challengers Bangalore put up a challenging score of 173 runs. However, Mustafizur Rahman broke the backbone of their batting line at the beginning. The Bangladeshi pacer picked up four wickets in his first two overs. Bengaluru then tried to turn around, but Chennai Super Kings did not have much trouble to reach the target of 174 runs. The reigning champions started the IPL with a flying start by Rachin Ravindra winning by 6 wickets. Mostafiz was the man of the match in the team's victory.
Chennai scored 176 for 4 in 18.4 overs. They won eight consecutive matches against Bengaluru with Chepu. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's next chapter under Ruturaj Gaikwad led the five-time champions to a good start.
Ruturaj and Rachin were separated by 38 runs in four overs. The skipper caught Cameron Green for 15 off Yash Dayal. Holding one end, Rachin stormed. Chennai scored 62 runs in the power play in his stormy innings of 37 runs from 15 balls.
On the last ball of the seventh over, Racine was stopped by Karn Sharma. Then the score of the team is 71. The New Zealand batsman scored the highest run for the team on his IPL debut. No one else could play a bigger innings than him.
However, Chennai got an easy win after a great start. The others played short but important innings. Ajinkya Rahane scored 27 runs off 19 balls. 22 runs came from Daryl Mitchell's bat. Then Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja's unbeaten partnership of 66 runs reached the port of victory for 'Yellow Submarine'. Dube was unbeaten on 34 off 28 balls and Jadeja was unbeaten on 25 off 17 balls.
Earlier, Bengaluru lost 5 wickets for 78 runs on Mustafiz's bowling ball. The Bangladeshi pacer took 4 wickets with 29 runs in four overs. Later, Rawat and Karthik's partnership of 95 runs put up a respectable score for the visiting team.
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