CSK vs RCB, IPL 2022 Highlights: Uthappa & Dube's 50s guide CSK to first victory in season

The Chennai Super Kings defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 23 runs to register their first win of the IPL 2022 season. Below are the top performers of the match:

1) Robin Uthappa: 88 runs off just 50 deliveries

2) Shivam Dube: 95 not out off just 46 balls

3) Maheesh Theekshana: 4/33 in four overs

4) Ravindra Jadeja: 3/39 in four overs

The Royal Challengers Bangalore still require 43 runs to win off the last two overs with just one wicket remaining. If the Chennai Super Kings manage to dismiss either Mohammed Siraj or Josh Hazlewood, they will register their first win of the IPL 2022 season.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore are in real trouble as Chennai Super Kings batter Ravindra Jadeja stepped up and picked up two wickets in the 16th over. At the end of 16 overs, RCB's score is 146/8.

Maheesh Theekshana was outstanding with the ball as he picked up four wickets against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, who have managed to score just 140 runs at the end of 15 overs. Theekshana dismissed both RCB openers, Shahbaz Ahmed and Suyash Prabhudessai. 

The Royal Challengers Bangalore are in a huge spot of bother as they have just managed to score 117 runs from the first 13 overs. As a result, they still require 100 runs to win off the last seven overs, with Dinesh Karthik and Shahbaz Ahmed at the crease.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 86 runs for the loss of four wickets at the end of 10 overs and still require 131 runs to win from the remaining 10 overs of the match. RCB have lost both openers, Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell so far.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore's troubles continue to mount as Maheesh Theekshana dismissed Anuj Rawat for just 12 runs. Soon after, Glenn Maxwell was dismissed by Chennai Super Kings captain Ravindra Jadeja for 26 runs. At the end of 7 overs, RCB have scored 50 runs for the loss of four wickets.

The troubles for the Royal Challengers Bangalore continue to mount as they just lost former captain Virat Kohli shortly after current skipper Faf du Plessis was dismissed. Kohli was out for just one run by Mukesh Choudhary.

Maheesh Theekshana has a brilliant start to his IPL 2022 campaign as he dismissed RCB captain Faf du Plessis for just eight runs of nine deliveries. After 3 overs, the Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 14 runs for the loss of one wicket.

Moeen Ali bowled an excellent first over to kickstart the innings of Royal Challengers Bangalore as he conceded just one run.

The Chennai Super Kings end at 216/4 with both Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube smacking impressive half-centuries. While Uthappa was dismissed for 88 runs, Dube remained not out at 95 runs. It remains to be seen if the firepower of Royal Challengers Bangalore can help them chase down the target.

The Chennai Super Kings batters continue to dominate the Royal Challengers Bangalore as they have scored 187 runs after 18 overs for the loss of just two wickets. Both Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube continue their fine form as they have smacked 82 and 73 runs respectively.

Shivam Dube continues his fine form as he smacked an impressive fifty off just 30 deliveries. He scored his half-century shortly after Robin Uthappa got to his fifty. At the end of 16 overs, CSK's score is 145/2.

Chennai Super Kings opener Robin Uthappa has been in outstanding form as he smashed his 27th IPL fifty against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 15th edition of the tournament. At the end of 14.4 overs, CSK's score is 128/2.

With the pitch expected to suit the spinners more than the pacers, RCB are bowling the likes of Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga and Shahbaz Ahmed with the hope of getting a wicket. CSK seem in complete control at the moment as they have scored 105 runs for the loss of two wickets after 13 overs.

After a slow start against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Chennai Super Kings are attempting to increase their run rate. They smacked 10 runs of the eighth over and 8 runs off the ninth over to increase CSK's score to 55/2 after nine overs.

At the end of the powerplay, CSK have scored 35 runs for the loss of one wicket, with Ruturaj Gaikwad getting dismissed by Josh Hazlewood.

Chennai Super Kings lose another wicket as Moeen Ali was run out by Prabhudessai.

Robin Uthappa finally found a boundary in the last ball of the fifth over and took CSK's score to 25/1.

While Gaikwad reached to his highest individual score by hitting a four in the first delivery of the 4th over, he was ruled lbw out three balls later. As the batter went ahead with the DRS review, the third-umpire confirmed that the ball would have hit the stumps. Gaikwad scored 17 runs off 16 balls during his outing.

Gaikwad hit an elegant four in the second delivery of the third over as CSK finished the over with 15/0 on the scoreboard.

Josh Hazlewood became the 150th player to represent RCB, playing his first match of IPL 2022. Hazlewood bowled economically and gave away just two runs in the over.

CSK got off the mark in the second ball of the first over, before Gaikwad hit the first boundary of the match in the fourth delivery.

RCB pacer Mohammed Siraj bowled the first over of the match, while Ruturaj Gaikwad took the strike.

Faf du Plessis won the toss for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and chose to field first.

Chennai Super Kings captain Ravindra Jadeja hopes that the team can win the first game of the IPL 2022 season as he stated, "We'll look to come here and play competitive cricket. The toss is not going our way, something that's not going our way. As a team every game is important. We'll try to fight it out and clinch our first win hopefully. We are going with the same team."

Chennai Super Kings: Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja(c), MS Dhoni(w), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj, Suyash Prabhudessai, Akash Deep

The Chennai Super Kings' official social media handle released a video of their side training with the Royal Challengers Bangalore, who they would face tonight in the mega clash of the IPL 2022 season.

Former Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli could achieve a major milestone in tonight's clash as he is just 52 runs away from scoring 1,000 runs against the Chennai Super Kings.

IPL's official Twitter handle has released the list of players that were the top game-changers of week 2. The list contains some marquee names such as Jos Buttler, and Avesh Khan, amongst others.

Chennai Super Kings:

1) Robin Uthappa: 106 runs after 4 games

2) Moeen Ali: 83 runs in 3 matches

3) Dwayne Bravo: 6 wickets from 4 games

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

1) Faf du Plessis: 138 runs from 4 matches

2) Virat Kohli: 106 runs after 4 games

3) Wanindu Hasaranga: 8 wickets in 4 matches

The Royal Challengers Bangalore's official Twitter handle shared some images of the team's pace attack training hard ahead of their IPL 2022 clash against four-time champions Chennai Super Kings.

Cricket fans in India can watch IPL 2022 live on the Star Sports Network. As for the CSK vs RCB live stream, fans can tune in to the Disney+ Hotstar app or website. Meanwhile, fans can also track the live updates and scores on the official social media handles of the two teams and the IPL.

Ahead of match 22 of IPL 2022 between the Chennai Super Kings and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, here is a look at our CSK vs RCB Dream11 predictions:

Wicket-keepers: Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik

Batters: Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Glenn Maxwell

All-rounders: Wanindu Hasaranga (C), Moeen Ali (VC)

Bowlers: Mohammed Siraj, Chris Jordan, M Theekshana

Chennai Super Kings: Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja(c), MS Dhoni(w), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary, Adam Milne, Dwaine Pretorius, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Mitchell Santner, Tushar Deshpande, Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Subhranshu Senapati, Prashant Solanki, KM Asif, Simarjeet Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Bhagath Varma

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik(w), Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Deep, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Karn Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Jason Behrendorff, Chama V Milind, Rajat Patidar, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Sherfane Rutherford, Aneeshwar Gautam

With a strike rate of 179.86 against the Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore fans will hope that star Australian all-rounder can deliver with the bat once again.