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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Maharashtra Congress chief Patole meets Kharge, dismisses resignation talk as 'rumours'
New Delhi, Nov 25: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday dismissed as "rumours" talk of his resignation following the assembly polls debacle and stressed on "collective accountability" for the defeat.
Patole made the remarks after meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge during which he conveyed that the result had not reflected the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra.
"Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other national and state leaders were leading Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) from the forefront during the assembly polls. So, we were sure that the trends were in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi, even the citizens believed that," the Maharashtra Congress chief said.
"If I talk about Nanded, the Lok Sabha bypolls and assembly elections were held on the same day. In Lok Sabha bypolls, our candidate was winning in six assembly seats, whereas, in the assembly elections, we are not winning even a single seat," he said, adding that there cannot be such a "huge difference".
This is the sentiment among the people also and they have stated that this government in Maharashtra was not being formed on their votes, he claimed.
"So, I spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge on this," he added.
Asked whether he had offered to resign or the party had asked for his resignation after the Maharashtra assembly polls defeat, Patole said, "These are all rumours and there is no truth in them. There is collective accountability."
Patole also said he will meet Rahul Gandhi in a day or two and discuss all issues.
"Democracy is being finished. We have discussed that... there was no talk of resignation," he said.
The MVA alliance, comprising the Congress, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), was restrained to 46 seats by the Mahayuti that reaped a rich harvest of 230 seats in the 288-member House.
