Josh Hazlewood’s performance turned the game around; CSK’s loss was attributed to these players.

In the 8th match of IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Chennai Super Kings by 50 runs. In this match, Bangalore scored 196 runs while batting first. In response, Chennai’s team was able to score 146 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Let me tell you that RCB has defeated Chennai on their homeground chapock after 17 years. The team has created history under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. Patidar also won the title of Player of the Match, a brilliant innings of 51 runs in 32 balls. Meanwhile, let us tell you what was the turning of the match? Due to which Chennai Super Kings had to face defeat.

Josh Hazlewood’s over hurt CSK deeply

The second over of the Chennai Super Kings’s innings was taken by Josh Hazlewood. He dismissed opener Rahul Tripathi on the second ball. Rahul Tripathi tried to play a big shot, but Phil Salat, posted on the mid-wicket, caught an easy catch. Tripathi was able to score only 5 runs in 3 balls. After this, captain Rituraj Gaikwad landed on the field to bat on number-3 and lost four balls and lost wickets on the last ball of the over.

Rituraj tried to play a big shot against Hazlewood, but could not succeed. Manoj Bhande caught a good catch while running away. Josh came only one run in the second over by Hazlewood and Chennai Super Kings lost two big wickets. The team was initially ambushed in the run chase of 197, which could not recover the team. After this, batsmen like Deepak Hooda, Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja also returned to the pavilion cheaply.