Bengaluru, April 25: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) edged past Royals Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a high octane encounter on Wednesday by 5 wickets at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. CSK needed 16 off the last over. While it was Bravo who pummeled 10 off the first two balls to keep Chennai win the game, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni who brought the win with a six. Couldn't have been a better finish to the game. Dhoni played the captain's knock of unbeaten 34-ball 70. He clobbered 7 sixes and 1 four to knock Virat Kohli's RCB out of the game. 

Earlier, batting first Quinton de Kock and Virat Kohli provided a commendable start to the home team. Kohli who was just 18 runs short of completing 2000 IPL runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium scored just 18 runs before perishing to Shardul Thakur. It was the South African pair of de Kock and AB de Villiers who raged a storm in Bengaluru as they kneaded a 103 run partnership off 53 deliveries. The Proteas duo shared 14 maximums and three fours amongst them. While de Kock struck 4 sixes and 1 four en route his 37-ball 53, ABD pummeled his way to 30-ball 68 with 8 sixes and two boundaries. However, Bravo and Tahir pulled things together for the visitors as RCB lost two of the batsman in quick succession. Tahir picked ABD and Corey in the same over. It was Mandeep Singh who stroked a cameo of 17-ball 32 to stretch RCB's start to a good one. However, RCB lost three wickets in the last over. Washington Sundar's 4-ball 13 helped the hosts get over the 200 run mark.

 

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Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.

Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.

Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.

An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.

The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.

A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.

Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."

"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.

"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.

A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.