Hazlewood, Patidar help RCB breach CSK den after 17 years

Josh Hazlewood struck a couple of early blows after Rajat Patidar scored his first half-century as captain to help Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeat Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium after a gap of 17 years in Match 8 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on Friday.

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RCB had defeated CSK athome in the inaugural edition in 2008 and since then suffered defeat every time they played the CSK den.

On Friday, they came up with a fine all-round performance to beat CSK by 50 runs, handing the five-time champions their biggest defeat ever at Chepauk.

Patidar (51) capitalised on a couple of dropped chances when he was batting at 17 to hit some brilliant shots as he reached his half-century off 30 balls.

He was out soon after and just when it looked like RCB would fall well short of the 200-run mark, Tim David hammered a hat-trick of sixes in the final over to pull them close to what looks like a par-score.

Most of the RCB batters got starts - Phil Salt contributed 32 off 16 balls, Virat Kohli scored 31 off 30, Devdutt Padikkal struck 27 off 14 and Tim David remained unbeaten on 22 off eight balls in a fine cameo - as RCB and CSK fought back each time the other was trying to take control of the proceedings.

Hazlewood made the breakthrough for RCB in the second over by getting Rahul Tripathi (5) edge one behind to Salt, hitting the hard length, and extracting some bounce as Tripathimistimed his pull shot.