David, Patidar blow Chennai Super Kings to smithereens

Defending champions Royal Challengers Bangalore bulldozed Chennai Super Kings’ attack while also obliterating the record books in front of their vociferous fans at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday night.

Sitting pretty at 91/1 in ten overs, RCB nearly tripled that figure in the last ten, pushing the envelope of T20 range-hitting. RCB’s 250/3 was their third-highest total in the Indian Premier League and the highest by any team against CSK in the league.

In response, the yellow army lost their top three inside three overs and eventually slid to their third successive defeat in IPL 2026. In May 2023, the leading lights of their triumphant march were all on the wrong side of 30. Among the protagonists of the title bout opposite Gujarat Titans were Devon Conway (31), Ajinkya Rahane (34), Ambati Rayudu (37), Ravindra Jadeja (34), Moeen Ali (35), and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (41).

Chennai Super Kings’ average age this year is a healthy 28, rubberstamping an upheaval that is aimed at fortune-fixing as they’ve fallen short of the playoffs back-to-back. However, so far the results haven’t really been influenced by that sea change.

Brief scores: Royal Challengers Bengaluru 250/3 in 20 overs [Tim David 70* (25), Devdutt Padikkal 50 (29), Rajat Patidar 48* (19)] beat Chennai Super Kings 207 in 19.4 overs [Sarfaraz Khan 50 (25), Prashant Veer 43 (29), Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3-41, Abhinandan Singh 2-30] by 43 runs