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Tim David belted eight sixes in a blistering 70 not out to fire Royal Challengers Bengaluru to their second win of the IPL season, hammering Chennai Super Kings by 43 runs on Sunday.<\/p>\n
David’s 25-ball blitz steered defending champions Bengaluru to 250-3, the highest total in this season’s tournament, after the hosts were put in to bat first at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.<\/p>\n
Bengaluru bowled Chennai out for 207 in 19.4 overs to condemn the five-time IPL winners to a third defeat in as many matches.<\/p>\n
Seam bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar took three wickets for Bengaluru. Jacob Duffy, Abhinandan Singh and Krunal Pandya claimed two each.<\/p>\n
But Australia’s David ruled with his power hitting and one of his sixes off England’s Jamie Overton went over the roof of the stadium.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t always happen that way,” said player of the match David.<\/p>\n
“You know, skipper Rajat (Patidar) was absolutely smoking and I was taking balls off him. So to be able to get us to a score and obviously put a lot of pressure on the opposition, it was super fun.”<\/p>\n
Bengaluru top the 10-team IPL table with a better run-rate than Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings. All four sides have won their opening two matches.<\/p>\n
Bengaluru, who won their first IPL title in 18 attempts last year, started strong after Virat Kohli hit an 18-ball 28, and the rest of the batting kept up the pace and then accelerated.<\/p>\n
Kohli’s fellow opener Phil Salt made 46 and Devdutt Padikkal reached 50 before Patidar, who finished unbeaten on 48, and David tore into the Chennai attack.<\/p>\n
David launched a brutal assault at the back end of the Bengaluru innings and whacked Overton for four sixes and a four in a 30-run 19th over.<\/p>\n
David and Patidar put on 99 runs in 36 balls as Bengaluru plundered 97 runs from the final five overs.<\/p>\n
Chennai lost three early wickets, including skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad for seven, to immediately fall behind in the chase.<\/p>\n
Sarfaraz Khan’s 25-ball 50 and good knocks from Prashant Veer (43) and Overton (37) added some spark to an otherwise disappointing Chennai show.<\/p>\n
“Great fight by Sarfaraz, Prashant Veer, Jamie Overton, even to some extent Shivam Dube,” said Gaikwad. “So I think, maybe I could have, contributed more top of the order. You never know, we could have chased it down.”<\/p>\n
In the first of the two matches on Sunday, pace bowler Mohammed Shami returned figures of 2-9 to help Lucknow Super Giants beat Hyderabad by five wickets for their first win of this edition.<\/p>\n
Skipper Rishabh Pant hit an unbeaten 68 as Lucknow chased down 157 for victory with one ball to spare.<\/p>\n
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