An emphatic all-round performance powered Rajasthan Royals to a 16-run victory over Chennai Super Kings. The match was the first high-scoring encounter of IPL 2020 with both sides crossing the 200-run mark. A total of 33 sixes were hit - the match thus created history for recording the joint highest number of sixes in an IPL encounter ( equalling RCB vs CSK in 2018).Sanju Samson`s brillant 74 off 32 balls compromised of 9 sixes  and Steven Smith`s 69 has 4,  set the tone for the Royals. Apart from them the English All Rounder Jofrey Archer hit 4 sixes in the death overs as they reached a massive total of 216 against a wayward Chennai bowling. On the other hand Chennai Super Kings started it well . Watson and Faf showered 4 sixes. While Sam Curran's small 17 run innings contained 2 huge sixes. But Dhoni's consecutive sixex in the last over were not enough to chase the mountain alike target. Although CSK is used to such milestones. Earlier in 2018, there were 33 sixes smashed in the fixture against Royal Challengers Bangalore. In the same edition, CSK's match against Kolkata Knight Riders had witnessed 31 sixes.