Rajat Patidar on RCB vs CSK Match: Royal Challengers Bangalore finally defeated Chennai Super Kings at Chepock ground after 17 years. Last Friday, Bengaluru has defeated CSK by a big margin of 50 runs. Earlier, RCB last defeated Chennai on this ground in 2008. In this historic victory of Bengaluru, captain Rajat Patidar played a big role, who played a brilliant half -century innings of 51 runs. Actually, RCB had made a special plan to defeat Chennai, which has been revealed by captain Patidar himself.

RCB made a special plan

After the victory against CSK, Rajat Patidar in a post-match presentation said, “Chepock’s pitch was not easy to bat. We wanted to reach a score of 200 while batting first because we knew that it would not be easy to chase here. My goal was very clear that I would have tried to score on every single ball.

Rajat Patidar also told that he wanted to use spin bowlers early. His strategy was also effective because Liam Livingstone proved to be very deadly. In the match, Livingstone took 2 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Patidar described the first over of Josh Hazlewood as very important, which worked to bring the match towards RCB.

RCB is on top of points table

Royal Challengers Bangalore have won both their matches in IPL 2025 so far. In the first match, he defeated KKR by 7 wickets, while now he has won by 50 runs against Chennai Super Kings. Bangalore sits on the top of the table with 4 points after winning two consecutive matches.

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RCB Captain Rajat Patidar fifty: Rajat Patidar is playing the role of a great captain in IPL 2025. There are some players who deviate from rhythm under the pressure of captaincy, but it seems as if the personal performance of the Patidar has come out after getting the captaincy. He scored 51 runs in 32 balls in the match against Chennai Super Kings. Chepock ground is the stronghold of CSK, where spinners speak. Crossing all these difficulties, captain Patidar proved to be the top scorer for RCB.

First fifty as captain

Rajat Patidar is captaining a team in IPL for the first time. Patidar played a stormy innings of 34 runs in 16 balls against his first match of IPL 2025 ie KKR. But in the match against Chennai Super Kings, he has put the first fifty as RCB captain. Patidar hit 4 fours and 3 sixes during this half -century innings.

Virat Kohli’s trust won

The RCB franchise had an unbox event done before the start of the IPL 2025 tournament. In that event, Virat Kohli praised the silver Patidar. Virat had said that Patidar has everything that can make him a great captain of Royal Challengers and he will definitely take the team forward. Bangalore has won the first match of IPL 2025 under the captaincy of Patidar and now he has also influenced the fans with his personal performance by putting his first fifty.

Rajat Patidar has so far scored 884 runs in his IPL career and as soon as he scored 116 runs, he will join the list of players who scored one thousand runs in Indian Premier history. He has also scored a century and 8 fifty in his career.

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