Royal Challengers Bangalore snap three-match losing streak, beat Chennai

Harshal Patel and Glenn Maxwell shared five wickets between themselves as Royal Challengers Bangalore snapped their threematch losing streak to beat defending champions Chennai Super Kings by 13 runs at MCA Stadium on WednesdayAfter Mahipal Lomror 42 and Dinesh Karthik 26 not out hit handy knocks to take Royal Challengers Bangalore to 1738 Bangalores bowling attack led by Patel Maxwell and Josh Hazlewood adopted the pace off approach successfully in restricting Chennai to 1608 in their 20 oversThe result means that Bangalore are now at fourth place in the points table while Chennai were left to rue their inability to build on a wicketless powerplay and Devon Conway getting a fine 56 as the rest of the batters failed to stay at the crease for long on a twopaced pitchThe lefthanded Conway had a bright start bringing out the conventional as well as reverse sweep for picking two fours off Shahbaz Ahmed in the opening over With Hazlewood keeping him and Ruturaj Gaikwad quiet due to his impeccable lengths the two cracked a four each off Mohammed SirajGaikwad then went to slam Siraj for successive fours followed by him and Conway hitting a six each off Wanindu Hasaranga over deep midwicket as Chennai finished powerplay at 510 Just after powerplay Ahmed delivered the breakthrough as Gaikwad pulled off backfoot but found diving longon running to his rightRobin Uthappa made just one run before slicing straight to backward point on a short ball from Glenn Maxwell Maxwell picked his second wicket of the night as he rattled Ambati Rayudus stumps while trying to punchConway continued to be at his best dancing down the pitch and flicking Hasaranga for a six over deep midwicket With Moeen Ali taking boundaries off Maxwell and Harshal Patel Conway punched the latter past an outstretched extra cover and followed it with a single through midwicket to reach his second consecutive fifty in 33 ballsThe sweep continued to fetch runs for Conway as he slogswept hard off Maxwell and was almost caught at deep square leg before the ball went for four But in the next over the sweep brought his downfall giving a simple catch to deep backward square leg off HasarangaFrom there slower balls kept on getting scalps for Bangalore as Ravindra Jadeja miscued the slog off Harshal Patel and was caught by cover Patel had his second wicket of the night when he took out Moeen Ali with a wide slower ball hit loosely to extra cover just after he was smacked over deep midwicket for sixChennais hopes on MS Dhoni pulling off another heroic chase ended when he pulled straight to deep midwicket off Hazlewood in the 19th over Despite Dwaine Pretorius hitting a four and six before becoming Patels third victim and Maheesh Theekshana taking six more Bangalore had enough to outplay ChennaiEarlier spinners Maheesh Theekshana and Moeen Ali took five wickets between themselves as Bangalore huffed and puffed their way to 1738 They were off to a steady start as Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli hit eight boundaries between themselves to be at 510 in first five oversBut in the next five overs Bangalore endured a spininflicted slowdown starting from Theekshana conceding only six runs from the final over of powerplayDu Plessis tried to smash Ali over big legside boundary in the eighth over but pulled straight to deep midwicket A lack of communication between Kohli and Maxwell resulted in the latter being runout while taking a quick singleAli came back to produce a perfect offspinner dismissal inviting Kohli to go for an expansive drive but got one to turn in from outside off to hit the stumps Bangalores top three falling in quick succession meant that they slipped from being 620 to 793 at the halfway markFrom there Lomror and Rajat Patidar produced two fours and as many sixes over the legside off Ali and Theekshana for a useful 44run partnership off 32 balls before Pretorius got the former out with Mukesh Choudhary sprinting in to take a fine catch at deep square leg Lomror continued to hit boundaries with a flat sweep off Pretorius going for a flat six over deep midwicket being the standoutBut Theekshana brought Chennai back in the match as he had Lomror and Hasaranga caught on both sides of the v on successive balls of the 19th over He then finished off the over by knocking Ahmeds stumps with a carrom ballDinesh Karthik after surviving an lbw review off Pretorius took 16 off the final over off Pretorius including two sixes over deep midwicket and longon to take Bangalores score past 170markBrief ScoresRoyal Challengers Bangalore 1738 in 20 overs Mahipal Lomror 42 Faf du Plessis 38 Maheesh Theekshana 327 Moeen Ali 228 beat Chennai Super Kings 1608 in 20 overs Devon Conway 56 Moeen Ali 34 Harshal Patel 335 Glenn Maxwell 222 by 13 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves 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