IPL 2024 points table: RCB and CSK won their matches on Sunday© AFP
Royal Challengers Bengaluru keep their IPL 2024 playoff dreams alive with a huge nine-wicket win over Gujarat Titans, while Chennai Super Kings climbed to third in the points table with a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday. RCB rode brilliant knocks from Virat Kohli and Will Jacks to register their second win on the trot. They will remain at the bottom of the IPL 2024 points table even after the win, but they can still qualify for the play-offs if they win all their remaining matches. On the other hand, CSK climbed to the third spot with 10 points from 9 matches, while Sunrisers Hyderabad also slipped to the fourth spot with 10 points from 9 matches but an inferior Net Run Rate (NRR).
Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad missed his second consecutive IPL century by a whisker while pacers Tushar Deshpande and Matheesha Pathirana decimated Sunrisers Hyderabad's batting as Chennai Super Kings won their IPL 2024 home match by 78 runs.
After Gaikwad scored a 54-ball 98 and shared a 107-run partnership with Daryl Mitchell (52) to give CSK a healthy 212/3, Deshpande (4/27) and Sri Lankan Pathirana (2/17) came up with match-winning bowling figures to dismiss SRH for 134 in 18.5 overs.
Deshpande took the wickets of opener Travis Head (13) and Anmolpreet Singh (0) in his first over before getting rid of Abhishek Sharma (15) and captain Pat Cummins (5), while Pathirana got the dangerous Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen to demolish SRH.
Earlier, Will Jacks hit a sensational hundred while Virat Kohli upped his game in the middle overs as Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Gujarat Titans by nine wickets.
Kohli (70 not out off 44), whose approach in the middle overs was questioned in the previous game, used the sweep shot against the spinners to make a statement before Jacks (100 not out off 41) broke away to to shoot down the 201-201. run the goal with as many as 24 balls left.
Jacks went berserk in what turned out to be the last over of the match, hammering as many as four sixes and four off Rashid Khan, ending the match much earlier than expected. The Englishman plundered no fewer than ten sixes in his breathtaking effort.
(With PTI inputs)
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