Deepak Chahar ruled out of IPL

MUMBAI: A back injury to pacer Deepak Chahar has all but put paid to his hopes of playing in the ongoing IPL, adding to CSK’S woes. According to sources, Chahar suffered the injury during his rehab at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. Chahar has been at the NCA for more than a month now, recovering from the quadricep tear he picked during India’s T20I series against West Indies in February.

From 60/2 after 10 overs, they switched gears to take 13 runs each from the 11th over bowled by Wanindu Hasaranga and the 12th by Shahbaz Ahmed. Uthappa then hit three sixes off Maxwell to plunder 19 runs from the 13th over. They added 13 more from the next over by Hasaranga at which point they were going neck to neck.

In a bid to control the hitting, Du Plessis took off his spinners and brought on Akash Deep but there was no stopping the two. They smashed Deep for 15 with Uthappa picking a six and four and Dube finishing the 15th over with a four to take the total to 133/2.

RCB were clearly missing the control of Harshal Patel, who has left the team bubble following a family bereavement.

In the 17th over, Mohammed Siraj was targetted for 18 runs with Uthappa collecting two more sixes.

The first hit was streaky, flying off the outside edge over third man, but the second was a stunning shot where Uthappa danced out and flat-batted straight down the ground. Pacer Akash Deep looked completely rattled to concede 24 runs in the 18th over, sending down four wides while completing his last two balls.

Brief scores: CSK 216/4 (R Uthappa 88, S Dube 95*). RCB 193/9 (S Ahmed 41, S Prabhudessai 34, D Karthik 34; M Theekshana 4/33, R Jadeja 3/39).