Rajasthan Royals started IPL 2020 campaign in winning note. Steve Smith lead side beat Chennai Super Kings by runs.

After winning the toss CSK chooses to bowl first. but the decision of MS Dhoni went wrong. 

Skipper Steve Smith and Sanju Samson give a good start to Rajasthan. But debutant Jaiswal (6) failed to impress in his first IPL match. The marvelous batting of Samson set the standard of RR innings. In only 32 balls he scored 74 with the help of 1 four and 9 sixes. David Miller got run out without playing a ball. The middle-order and lower-middle of RR order totally failed today. But Smith continues the flow of runs and Jofra Archer joins him to set a huge total on board. with the help of 4 sixes, archer scored 27 by using only 8 balls. Smith scored handsome 68 runs in the first match. After 20 overs RR score was 216/7.

English all-rounder Sam Curran took 3 wickets. Chahar, Ngidi, and Chawla took one wicket each.

In the response of the huge target set by RR, CSK also started well in the powerplay. Shane Watson (33) and Murli Vijay (21) tries to capitalize but being set they throw their wicket. In number three Faf du Plessis again take the charge and took the innings till the end. But his outstanding 72 runs innigs of 37 balls failed to secure two points. In middle Kedar Yadav (22) played handy innings but he also threw his wicket being a set batsman. Along with Faf, CSK skipper MS Dhoni (29*) tried but did not do much. After 20 over CSK was 17 runs behind. All-rounder Rahul Tewatia took 3 important wickets for RR.