5 Most Thrilling Wins For CSK While Chasing

#2 Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore(2012) MOM: Faf Du Plessis

In this match, Daniel Vettori from RCB won the toss and elected to bat first. Mayank Agarwal and Gayle put on an opening stand of 53, out of of which, 46 were scored by Mayank in his whirlwind innings. He had set the stage for a big RCB total and Virat Kohli and Gayle thought the same thing. Both of them started to get going after the powerplay, with Gayle hitting Suresh Raina for a 6 and 4. The overs ticked on with 1 boundary in each of them and Gayle hit 2 consecutive sixes of Jakati to reach his half-century off 27 balls. Jadeja finally dismissed Gayle in the 17th over after Gayle sliced one over cover only for Bravo to take a good catch.

Kohli went on despite ABD's departure soon after he came in and hit 2 sixes of Albie Morkel's bowling in the 18th over. After that, the RCB faced a batting collapse starting with Saurabh Tiwary and ending with Bhatkal as RCB slumped from 198/4 to 199/8 but Vinay Kumar's last ball six got them to the score of 205/8 in their 20 overs setting CSK a huge target to chase down.

Albie Morkel

CSK openers Vijay and Du Plessis started off slowly but gained momentum as Du Plessis hit Vettori for 2 boundaries and later smashed Bhatkal for 2 sixes and 1 four as CSK finished their power play with a score of 51/0. Vijay gave a return catch to Muttiah Muralitharan in the next over and captain Vettori made a strange bowling change the next over as Virat Kohli came into bowl.

Kohli conceded 8 runs in that over bowling just 1 loose ball which Raina dispatched for 4 runs. CSK kept the scoreboard ticking and had scored 85/1 after 10 overs. Muralitharan picked up yet another crucial wicket in Raina the very next over as Raina played against the turn and gave a simple catch to Raju Bhatkal. MSD walked in after that wicket.

Dhoni hit Raju Bhatkal out of the ground in the 13th over and CSK were at 112/2 at the end of the 13th. Vettori received the similar treatment from Du Plessis when the South African slammed him for 2 sixes in the 14th over. Murali picked up yet another wicket the next over scalping Du Plessis who departed after scoring a brilliant 71 off 46 balls. CSK required 50 off the last 3 overs and had little hope except that MSD will still at the crease.

Zaheer Khan bowled brilliantly in the 18th over conceding just 7 runs and dismissing MSD. Albie Morkel walked in and the game seemed to be lost for CSK when Vettori made a bizarre bowling change yet again, Virat Kohli came in to bowl the 19th over. Albie Morkel didn't want to give up without a fight and smashed Virat's first 4 deliveries for 2 sixes and 2 fours. He added 8 runs off the next 2 balls bringing the equation to 15 off the last over as Virat's over yielded a whopping 28 runs.

There was yet another twist when Albie Morkel got out in the 2nd ball of the over leaving CSK to score 14 runs off 4 balls. Vinay Kumar who bowled a nice slower ball to dismiss Albie bowled a full toss above the waist and Bravo hit it for 4 and the umpire signalled for a no ball. Bravo hit the next ball for six and after missing the next ball, gave the strike to Jadeja.

CSK required 2 off the last ball, which Jadeja hit for 4 runs past square leg as CSK pulled off a truly amazing comeback win in this absolute thriller. Although no one expected them to win from the stage they were in, Vettori's massive blunder in giving Kohli the ball for the 19th resulted in a truly great and memorable encounter for CSK.

Faf Du Plessis was adjudged the Man of the Match for his innings which set the stage for the CSK win although his fellow teammate from South Africa, Albie Morkel did the big hitting towards the end to script a brilliant win for CSK.