Ravindra Jadeja Drops Catch After Nasty Collision With Matheesha Pathirana
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Matheesha Pathirana and Ravindra Jadeja were involved in an on-field collision which resulted in a dropped catch of the in-form Jacob Bethell.
Things were not going well for the Chennai Super Kings in their away clash against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru as two of their star players took a heavy blow as they collided whilst taking a catch in the Indian Premier League 2025 clash at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday evening.
Jacob Bethell, the young English all-rounder, lit up an absolute storm at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, scoring boundaries left, right and centre through the batting powerplay in the first innings. CSK seemed to have their chance when Bethell looked to slam one against Anshul Kamboj but got the top-edge onto the short third-man region, but both Matheesha Pathirana and Ravindra Jadeja did not communicate clearly. The latter had made the call, but the young Sri Lankan international did not hear it and came in charging.
Pathirana and Jadeja repeated Pakistani players catching😭 #RCBvsCSK #CSKvsRCB pic.twitter.com/Wqqxm7yOhF — Bruce Wayne (@_Bruce__007) May 3, 2025
Pathirana soon made up for his fumble but it was too late as RCB went on to score 97 runs in 9.5 overs. Virat Kohli also went on to score his half-century as well to put RCB well ahead in this fixture. RCB will want to get the win to ensure that they take the top spot in the points table.
Chennai Super Kings had won the toss and opted to bowl first. They also fielded an unchanged playing 11. The Royal Challengers Bengaluru decided to make just the one change to their side by bringing in Lungi Ngidi in place of the experienced Josh Hazlewood.
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Shaik Rasheed, Ayush Mhatre, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Dewald Brevis, Deepak Hooda, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana.
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May 03, 2025, 20:01 IST
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