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Guwahati, 30 March. After the first two days of the ongoing edition of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL-19), the dominance of the bowlers was visible for the first time on Monday, when the Rajasthan Royals (RR) bowlers, led by Nandre Berger (2-26), dismantled the five-time former champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for just 127 runs on a relatively damp wicket at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium due to rain.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s dashing fifty

After this, with the help of Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s explosive half-century (52 runs, 17 balls, five sixes, four fours), Rajasthan Royals made a great start to their campaign with a big victory of eight wickets with 47 balls remaining. This is the biggest win for Rajasthan Royals in terms of balls remaining.

It is noteworthy that in the first two matches of the league, all four teams were successful in scoring beyond 200 and the team chasing the target was victorious. But today, after losing the toss of the coin, the CSK team that came to bat first could not even complete the quota of overs and ‘Player of the Match’ Berger, Joffra Archer (2-19) and Ravindra Jadeja (2-18), who left CSK to play for Rajasthan for the first time, along with other fellow bowlers, bowled out the opposition in 19.4 overs.

Vaibhav and Yashasvi scored 75 runs in 38 balls.

During the counter action, Vaibhav, who celebrated his 15th birthday three days ago, not only hit an explosive fifty but also made the picture of a one-sided result with fellow opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (not out, 38 runs, 36 balls, one six, three fours) a partnership of 75 runs in just 38 balls. In the end the team scored 128 runs for two wickets in 12.1 overs.

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Suryavanshi, who scored a fifty in just 15 balls, however, became the victim of Anshul Kamboj (2-27) as soon as the powerplay ended. The same bowler returned Dhruv Jurel (18 runs, nine balls, four fours) in his next over (2-99). Well, Yashasvi and captain Riyan Parag (14 not out, 11 balls, one six, one four) put the final seal on the team’s victory in the 13th over with an unbroken partnership of 29 runs.

Sanju Samson disappointed the new franchise in the first match

Before this, CSK had a disastrous start when Sanju Samson (six runs, seven balls, one four), who was the captain of Rajasthan Royals till last season and proved to be the hero of the Indian team in the last T20 World Cup, disappointed his new franchise in the first match and was bowled by Burger in the very second over. After this, it seemed as if the line was set and within 38 runs before the powerplay, the top four batsmen including Sanju and captain Rituraj Gaikwad (0) had returned.

With the record partnership of Overton and Anshul on the 10th wicket. CSK could cross 100

At one time the situation became such that in the 16th over, nine wickets had fallen within 94 runs. It was fortunate that the highest scorer Jamie Overton (43 runs, 36 balls, two sixes, two fours) and Anshul Kamboj (seven unbeaten runs, one four) made a record partnership of 33 runs for CSK in IPL for the 10th wicket, taking the team beyond 125. Apart from Jamie, Kartik Sharma (18 runs, 15 balls, one six) and Sarfaraz Khan (17 runs, 12 balls, one six, two fours) were the other two batsmen who could reach double figures.

tuesday match : : Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans (New Chandigarh, 7.30 PM).