Tim David has received Player of the Match honours in the IPL after smashing an unbeaten 70 off 25 balls<\/p>\n
Australia’s Tim David smashed 70 not out off 25 balls as Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Chennai Super Kings by 43 runs in the Indian Premier League’s Southern Derby.<\/p>\n
Player of the match David hit eight sixes on Sunday night, while skipper Rajat Patidar scored 48 not out off 19 balls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair put on 99 runs off just 35 balls for the unbeaten fourth wicket.<\/p>\n
Coming in at 3-151 early in the 15th over, David scored only two runs from his first five balls.<\/p>\n
Then, in the final four overs of the innings, he exploded. Three sixes in a row off wrist-spinner Noor Ahmed and not long after he hit four sixes in one Jamie Overton over.<\/p>\n
He reached his half-century in 21 balls. In total, David hit Overton’s 19th over for 30 runs as RCB hammered 97 from the final five overs of the innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patidar also hit six sixes and Bengaluru reached 3-250 in 20 overs for their third highest IPL score. Devdutt Padikkal scored 50 off 29 balls.<\/p>\n
In reply, Chennai were down to 5-84 before Sarfaraz Khan scored 50 off 25. Despite a middle-order rearguard action, the five-time champions were bowled out in Bengaluru for 207 runs in 19.4 overs.<\/p>\n
It was Chennai’s fourth consecutive loss to defending champion Bengaluru in the southern derby.<\/p>\n
Bengaluru moved to the top of the points’ table with successive wins and a healthy run-rate. Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings also have two wins each.<\/p>\n
Chennai slipped to last place in the 10-team league after three successive defeats.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Sunday, skipper Rishabh Pant led a successful chase with 68 not out off 50 balls as Lucknow Super Giants beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets with one ball remaining for their first win this season.<\/p>\n
Pant hit nine fours but no sixes in his first half-century of the season, and opener Aiden Markram scored a 27-ball 45 as Lucknow finished with 5-160 in 19.5 overs in reply to Hyderabad’s 9-156.<\/p>\n
Mitch Marsh scored 14 off 12 opening the batting for Lucknow, after fellow Australian Travis Head made 7 off 8 at the top of the order for Hyderabad.<\/p>\n
IPL 2026 standings<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
T: Ties<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
NRR: Net Run Rate<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n
Australians in IPL 2026<\/p>\n
Chennai Super Kings: Matt Short ($255k), Spencer Johnson ($255k, replaces Nathan Ellis ($340k))<\/p>\n
Delhi Capitals: Mitchell Starc ($2m)<\/p>\n
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Josh Hazlewood ($2.13m), Tim David ($510k)<\/p>\n
Punjab Kings: Marcus Stoinis ($1.9m), Ben Dwarshuis ($745k), Mitchell Owen ($510k), Cooper Connolly ($510k), Xavier Bartlett ($136k)<\/p>\n
Kolkata Knight Riders: Cameron Green ($3.5m)<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins ($3.5m), Travis Head ($2.38m), Jack Edwards ($510k, withdrawn)<\/p>\n
Lucknow Super Giants: Josh Inglis ($1.49m), Mitchell Marsh ($578k)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim David has received Player of the Match honours in the IPL after smashing an unbeaten 70 off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-587985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587985","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=587985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}