CSK vs RR meet in the 3rd match of IPL 2026. RR won the toss and opted to bowl, hoping to utilise the powerplay to strike down as many CSK batsmen as possible. They have pacers Jofra Archer and Nandre Burger, tailored to exploit early pace-friendly conditions.
CSK, on the other hand, although it doesn’t have Dhoni playing for them, but have a heavy top order batsman who can go explosive.
Sanju Samson, the newly added in the CSK team, is in red-hot form after his heroics in the concluded T20 World Cup, so he was expected to go all guns blazing with captain Ruturaj Gaikwad. Also, youngster Ayush Mhatre has a good name to attack in the power play.
But things overturned as RR made plans and took wickets of the Top 3 in the power play with dominance. Jofra Archer and Nandre Burger, with their fire spell, crafted an early collapse, restricting CSK in the Powerplay, posing a mammoth total. The fourth one, Mathhew Short falls to Sandeep Sharma, making CSK’s total 41/4 in powerplay, which is quite a below-par score. If that was not enough, Jadeja struck in the middle over with Sarfaraz and Dubey’s wicket, dismantling the middle order. Then wickets kept tumbling until Jamie Overton posted a partnership of 33 with Kamboj to take CSK to a decent total of 127.
Rajasthan didn’t hold back in the chase. They kept going since ball one, or to be precise, the Wonder Kid, 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. He scored a 52 off 17 balls as the third-highest 50 in IPL. He is definitely a different gravy, and Twitter fans are elated to show their love and awe.
He is the power surge who gets going from the first ball, and if things go right, he can very well debut for the Indian Men's Team T20I series against Ireland this year.
Other than that, Dhruv Jurel’s cameo and Yashasvi’s calm innings helped RR to chase the total down easily in just 12 overs.
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