Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nBut Australia\u2019s David ruled with his power hitting and one of his sixes off England\u2019s Jamie Overton went over the roof of the stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t always happen that way,\u201d said player of the match David.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Tim David. AP Photo\/Aijaz RahiSource: AP<\/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\u2019s 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\u2019s 25-ball 50 and good knocks from Prashant Veer (43) and Overton (37) added some spark to an otherwise disappointing Chennai show.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat fight by Sarfaraz, Prashant Veer, Jamie Overton, even to some extent Shivam Dube,\u201d said Gaikwad.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think, maybe I could have, contributed more top of the order. You never know, we could have chased it down.\u201d<\/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, needing nine runs from the final over.<\/p>\n
Australians Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh failed to fire in the low-scoring contest, posting 7 and 14 respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim David belted eight sixes in a blistering 70 not out to fire Royal Challengers Bengaluru to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-587844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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