The RCB bowler Yash Dayal pulled off a 2-run victory in the nail-biting thriller of the IPL 2025 game against Chennai Super Kings on May 03 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Despite conceding 41 runs in his four-over quota, he defended 15 runs in the final over to secure a famous win against CSK at Bengaluru. By this win, RCB become the first team to pull off 8 wins in the ongoing season and currently are placed at the top of the IPL 2025 points table.

After being put to bat first, Bethell and Virat Kohli opened the attack while Khaleel Ahmed opened the bowling attack.

The duo made a fiery start, scoring 71 runs in the powerplay. Both went on to smash fifties, making a 97-run partnership for the first wicket.

Matheesha Pathirana brought the breakthrough dismissing Jacob Bethell for 55 runs which included 8 fours and 2 sixes. Padikkal walked in to bat along with Kohli where the latter went on to make his fifty.

He scored 62 runs before being dismissed by Sam Curran in the 12th over. With losing the openers, RCB’s run rate begun to drop with losing their third wicket for 144 runs.

Pathirana went on to pick the wicket of Devdut padikkal for 17 runs in the 16th over. As RCB began to struggle, Noor Ahmad gave another breakthrough picking the wicket of Jitesh Sharma for 7 runs where the home side lost four wickets for 154 runs.

With Patidar’s dismissal for 11 runs, Romario Shepherd went on to score 14-ball fifty helping the side to cross 200-run mark in their innings.

By the end of 20 overs, RCB posted 213 runs in scorecard. Pathirana has three wickets while Sam Curran and Noor Ahmad had a wicket each.

In the pursuit of chasing 214 runs, Ayush Mhatre and Shaik Rasheed opened their innings while Krunal Pandya opened the bowling attack.

With the dismissal of Shaik Rasheed and Sam Curran for 14 and 5 runs respectively, CSK scored 58 runs in the powerplay.

However, Ayush Mhatre and Ravindra Jadeja anchored the innings pulling out 114-run partnership with the youngster scoring 94 runs off 48 deliveries.

After his dismissal, Dewald Brevis was sent out on a controversial dismissal where they failed to take DRS for a lbw out decision. With MS Dhoni and Jadeja, the game were on CSK’s side, but the dismissal of Dhoni for 12 runs by Yash Dayal in the final over, Shivam Dube joined Jadeja where the former pulled off a huge six aiming for a win.

But Yash Dayal defended the score by leaking only one run in the final delivery to pull out famous win at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.