IPL 2024 Points Table: RCB and CSK received their matches on Sunday© AFP
Royal Challengers Bengaluru preserve their IPL 2024 playoff goals alive with a large nine-wicket victory over Gujarat Titans whereas Chennai Super Kings moved as much as third within the factors desk with a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday. RCB rode good knocks from Virat Kohli and Will Jacks to register their second victory on the trot. They stay on the backside of the IPL 2024 factors desk even after the win however they’ll nonetheless qualify for the playoffs in the event that they win all of their remaining matches. On the opposite hand, CSK moved as much as the third spot with 10 factors from 9 matches whereas Sunrisers Hyderabad fell to fourth with 10 factors from 9 matches as properly however an inferior Net Run Rate (NRR).
Skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad missed his second successive IPL century by a whisker, whereas pacers Tushar Deshpande and Matheesha Pathirana decimated the Sunrisers Hyderabad batting as Chennai Super Kings received their IPL 2024 residence sport by 78 runs.
After Gaikwad scored a 54-ball 98 and shared a 107-run partnership with Daryl Mitchell (52) to provide CSK a wholesome 212/3, Deshpande (4/27) and Sri Lankan Pathirana (2/17) got here up with match-winning bowling figures to dismiss SRH for 134 in 18.5 overs.
Deshpande took the wickets of opener Travis Head (13) and Anmolpreet Singh (0) in his first over earlier than eliminating Abhishek Sharma (15) and captain Pat Cummins (5), whereas Pathirana obtained the harmful Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen to demolish SRH.
Earlier,  Will Jacks slammed a sensational hundred whereas Virat Kohli upped his sport within the center overs as Royal Challengers Bengaluru outplayed Gujarat Titans by 9 wickets.
Kohli (70 not out of 44), whose method within the center overs was questioned within the earlier sport, employed the sweep shot towards the spinners to make an announcement earlier than Jacks (100 not out off 41) reduce unfastened to gun down the 201-run goal with as many 24 balls to spare.
Jacks went berserk in what turned out be the ultimate over of the sport, hammering as many as 4 sixes and 4 off Rashid Khan to shut out the sport a lot before anticipated. The Englishman plundered as many as 10 sixes in his breathtaking effort.
(With PTI inputs)
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