More than halfway into IPL 2019, the battle lines are being drawn clearly; the minnows and the favourites have been identified. After a long unbeaten spell, Chennai Super Kings lost a couple of matches. After a humiliating dry spell, RCB finally won a match. Obviously those on Twitter had a lot to say about it all.
RCB put the hosts, Kings XI Punjab in to bat after winning the toss. KXIP got up to 173 in their allotted overs, aided largely by a 66 (38 balls) partnership from Chris Gayle and KL Rahul.
RCB overhauled the KXIP total largely due to the efforts of skipper Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. After losing 6 matches on the trot, this had to have been a huge relief for Kohli.
RCB fans would have been relieved at the reprieve.
Fans would have seen the victory as a validation of their faith in their idol Kohli as well as his captaincy which was called into question.
However, they wouldn’t have been too enthused by their team proceeding to lose their 8th match to Mumbai Indians thereafter (RCB lost match 31 of IPL 2019 to MI).
RCB are still at the bottom of the IPL 2019 table with just two points out of a possible 16 from the 8 matches. They are below RR with 4 points and KKR and SRH with 6 points each; all four teams having played 8 matches each.
When Chennai Super Kings faced off against Sun Risers Hyderabad, they did so under the captaincy of Suresh Raina since M S Dhoni was being rested as a precautionary measure after a back spasm.
There are a lot of people who are fiercely loyal to CSK only because of Dhoni and they were devastated that Captain Cool was not playing on the day.
No one can replace Captain Cool, fans are convinced.
They lost five wickets and made only 132 to their allotted overs. SRH managed to overhaul this in the 17th over with 19 balls to spare.
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