Highlights

• Harbhajan throws 3-wicket haul to RCB
• Tahir also gave away three shocks and middle order after Bhajji demolished
• RCB look weak against spin bowling
• Raina made 5000 runs in IPL as soon as he scored 15 runs

Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni (CSK) has a winning start to the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), captain Virat Kohli, by 7 wickets in the opening match. After losing the toss at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, the RCB team could not face the wavy bowling of Bhajji and Imran Tahir, and all got out on 70 runs. In reply CSK achieved the target by losing 3 wickets in 17.4 overs.

The start of CSK also started to chase the poorly aimed target, the team of Chennai Super Kings also started poorly. They felt their first blow as Shane Watson. Without opening the account, Yuvraj is also got out on the ball of Chahal. In fact, in the first part of there Virat saw the success of spinners, and he will gave the credit to the RCB's bowlers for that three overs of the innings.

First batsman to score 5000 runs. After this Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayudu started playing Sambhalkar. In the 8th over, Raina opened the hand to Moin Ali with two consecutive fours and in the next over, he completed his 5000 runs in IPL with a run of Umesh Yadav. He is the only single batsman to do this. He hit Moin Ali's first ball in the 10th over but he was caught in the hands of Shivam Dubey on the next ball. He scored 19 runs off 21 balls with 3 fours. Raina and Rayudu shared 32 runs for the second wicket.
 
The CSK team was heading towards victory when Ambati Rayudu (28) got bowled on Mohammad Sayiraj's ball. He hit two fours and a six in 42 balls. However, there was not much difference in his dismissal. Kedar Jadhav and Ravindra Jadeja added a crucial 7-wicket win over CSK, adding 1,000 runs for Chennai in the IPL, Chahal, Mohammad Siraj and Moin Ali took one wicket each.

RCB innings thriller Earlier, Harbhajan Singh did not give Royal Challengers Bangalore a good start by taking 3 wickets in the first innings and Chennai Super Kings dismissed them for 70 in 17.1 overs. On the slow wicket of Chepauk, senior off-spinner Harbhajan took three wickets in 20 overs with 20 runs. Imran Tahir then took 3/9 in 3 overs with three wickets. Ravindra Jadeja also took 2 wickets for 15 runs in 4 overs on the Aishwash pitch of the spinners.

RCB's big wicket Captain Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision of bringing Harbhajan to bowl was proved right, who sent Captain Kohli (6) back to the pavilion in the fourth over. The Bangalore team could not recover from this shock. Spotting the pace of the pitch, Harbhajan reduced the length of his balls and reduced the pace and troubled the batsmen. Kohli played a poor pool shot and was caught by Jadeja on the midwicket boundary.

Moin Ali hitted Harbhajan a six, but then returned by his bowl giving easy a catche. AB de Villiers (9) got a life from Tahir, but on the next ball, he's been caught by Jadeja on the boundary line. Dhoni and Raina got run out Shamron Hetmayer (0). The lower-order batsmen couldn't face the hard turns of Tahir and Jadeja.