Rajasthan Royals beat CSK by 7 wickets

 ABU DHABI: Bowlers and Jos Buttler's unbeaten knock gave Rajasthan Royals 7-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League match here on Monday. With this result RR moved to fifth position with 8 points from 10 matches and off-colour CSK went back to bottom with 6 points.

After restricting the opponent at just 125, RR, despite losing three early wickets, reached the target in 17.3 overs losing 3 wickets. Buttler remained unbeaten at 70 off 48 balls. After losing third wicket at just 28, he put on unbeaten 98 runs from 78 balls with Steven Smith (26no). RR's top order Ben Stokes (19), Robin Uthappa (4) and Sanju Samson (0) failed in power play. Pacer Deepak Chahar took 2 wickets for 18.

Earlier, Rajasthan Royals restricted Chennai Super Kings to just 125/5. Ravindra Jadeja top-scored with 35 not out (off 30 balls), while skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, playing his 200th IPL match, made 28 off 28 deliveries before being run out.

Jadeja and Dhoni added 53 runs in 7.4 overs as they struggled to get going. The two had joined hands at the fall of Ambati Rayudu's wicket. CSK were struggling at 56/4 in 10 overs at that time.

Spinners Shreyas Gopal and Rahul Tewatia gave away just 32 runs in eight overs combined, picking up a wicket each.

Brief scores: CSK 125/5 in 20 overs (R Jadeja 35*, Ms Dhoni 28, S Curran 22, S Gopal 1/14, R Tewatia 1/18, J Archer 1/20) lost to RR 126/3 in 17.3 overs (Jos Buttler 70no, Steven Smith 26no, Deepak Chahar 2/18). IANS

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