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A game of sixes comes to an end as the Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai super kings by 15 runs in a high scoring match. There have been 33 sixes hit in the match and we can’t keep calm to roll the summary to you.

Losing the toss and batting first, Rajasthan Royals lost their hyped debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal. As usual, Deepak char never misses to take a wicket in the powerplays and today was no different a day. But then came in Sanju Samson and he started the Sanju show. He and Steve Smith, who opened the innings today made sure that Rajasthan royals reaches the 100 mark before the 10th over. Sanju Samson went out for 74(32 ) and then wickets kept on tumbling at regular intervals. David Miller was run out, Robbie lofted one straight into long-off, Riyan Parag struggled, Rahul Tewatia struggled, and it was just Smudge who was holding the crease long. Later on, even the departed and was caught in the deep while trying to go for the big one in the deaths. It seemed that the royals would just put short of 200 but no, there was a twist. Barbados born Jofra Archer hit 27 of the 2 balls including two free hits in the last over to Lungi Ngidi. Royals finished at 216.

Coming to bat Csk started off slow and then wickets tumbled after the powerplays as Rahul Tewatia looked fantastic. Csk were four down before 100 and they had lost Watto(who was looking good), Vijay, Ruturaj, and Sam. Kedar too followed later on and then it was Dhoni and Faf who were on either side. The dew factor was on, the ball wasn’t gripping that much and then fabulous Faf played his explosive 72 off 37 deliveries but got out just ahead of the last over. In the end, just when things were out of hand and the required run rate was above 36 in the last over, Dhoni smacked a few out of the park and remained not-out.

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