TFG Fantasy Sports: Stats & Facts for Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL T20

Overview 

Chennai Super Kings will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first game of the IPL 2019 in Chepauk. TFG fantasy sports brings you important stats for this fantasy round. The game will start at 8.00 p.m. IST.

Super Kings will go into this match as the hot favourites given their impressive record against RCB in IPL. 

Total number of matches played: 23

Matches won by CSK: 15

Matches won by RCB : 7

No Result: 1

Matches played in Chennai: 7 (CSK 6, RCB 1)

The above numbers clearly indicate why it could be a smart move to pick more players from the CSK camp. 

Suresh Raina: He will be the key for CSK against RCB. The southpaw has played against the RCB 22 times and has won the most man of the match awards (4). Raina is also the highest run getter (4985) in the history of the IPL. 

Virat Kohli: His last two innings against CSK in 2018- 18 & 8. Virat Kohli is the second highest run getter (4948) in the history of IPL. 

What happened in 2018 when these two teams met in Bangalore. 

Kohli opened the batting in their first meeting of the season and got out for 18. ABD scored 68. For CSK, Jadeja, Tahir and Harbhajan took 2 wickets each. 

In reply, Rayudu top scored with 82 and Dhoni too chipped in with 70 to win the game. Chahal was the best bowler on show for RCB with 2 wickets. 

Please note: CSK hosted RCB in Pune and not in Chennai. 

Parthiv Patel top scored with 53. Both ABD & Virat flopped. Jadeja was the star with the ball for CSK. He picked up 3 wickets. In reply, the top-order--Watson, Rayudu & Raina all contributed with the bat. 

Other key stats: 

The last time Shane Watson batted for CSK was in the finals of the 2018 IPL. The all-rounder scored 117*. His last 5 innings at the PSL have been pretty impressive--7,71,20,15*,91. 

S Hetmyer is another explosive player in the RCB camp. However, he hasn't done well in his last 3 T20s (14, 10, 8).

The last time these two teams played at the Chepauk was back in 2015 ( CSK were banned thereafter). The Super Kings won the game by 24 runs. Raina was the top scorer 52. Bravo picked up 2 wickets. For RCB, Kohli scored 48. 

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