Chennai win game of high scores and spilled catches

CSK medium pacer Pathirana holds nerve in last over after RCB almost chase down the 227-run target

- Somshuvra Laha

A total of 33 sixes rained on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and catches were embarrassingly spilled before and after Ajinkya Rahane brilliantly saved a six in a match that witnessed over 400 runs till Royal Challengers Bangalore had to score 19 off the last over.

Matheesha Pathirana, a 20-year-old seamer from Kandy, was reverse ramped for six but held his nerve and nailed the yorker on his fourth ball to seal an eight-run win for Chennai Super Kings in Bengaluru on Monday.

The highest ever IPL total against RCB at their home warranted an unprecedented chase. And since there can't be any holding back while keeping up with an asking rate of 11, such targets can make the best chaser in the game do strange things. The second ball of his stay, Virat Kohli shimmied down the pitch to whip impact sub Akash Singh through midwicket for four. But an encore one ball later resulted in the ball taking an inside edge off Kohli's massive swing, clip his boot and roll onto his stumps.