‘Maxwell Mayhem’ screamed the scoreboard on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, however whereas Glenn Maxwell laid waste to the Chennai Super Kings assault with a 36-ball 76 the Australian has nonetheless ended on the dropping facet within the Indian Premier League.
In a high-scoring sport together with an IPL record-equalling 33 sixes, eight smashed by Maxwell, Royal Challengers Bangalore misplaced to CSK by eight runs on Monday.
Having been lowered to 2-15, with Virat Kohli out, chasing Chennai’s 6-226, RCB rallied so nicely they seemed on target for victory as Maxwell and Faf du Plessis added 126 in ten overs. But after they have been dismissed in successive overs CSK turned the screw and Bangalore completed on 8-218.
New Zealand’s Devon Conway launched the night time’s bowler battering when he smacked six sixes and 6 fours on his technique to 83 off 45 balls.
Conway placed on 74 off 43 with Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 37 off 20. Their partnership set the momentum for Chennai, who scored 112 runs in 9 overs after the powerplay.
Conway added one other 80 off 37 with Shivam Dube, who cracked 5 sixes and two fours in 52 off 27 balls.
Bangalore began badly. Kohli performed on for six and Mahipal Lomror was out for a five-ball duck regardless of being dropped. In all Chennai dropped 5 catches and missed two run-out alternatives, with Du Plessis taking benefit to attain 62 off 33, together with 5 fours and 4 sixes.
But after he adopted Maxwell again to the hutch late cameos by Dinesh Karthik (28 off 14) and Suyash Prabhudessai (19 off 11) solely lowered the margin of defeat.
Twelve bowlers have been used between the groups. Aside from Mohammed Siraj, whose 4 overs went for 30 with one wicket, and Ravindra Jadeja, whose quartet went for 37, each bowler conceded greater than ten an over. Maxwell took 1-28 off his 16 balls.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
