Eyebrows were raised when MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first on a pitch which was expected to help the spinners. The CSK captain backed his bowlers to do the damage early on so his batsmen would have fewer runs to chase.The plan was a huge success as RCB's batsmen had no answer to CSK's potent spin-attack. First, it was the legendary off spinner Harbhajan Singh who rolled back the years. The Turbanator destroyed the top order of RCB, picking up the wickets of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Moeen Ali; a blow from which RCB never recovered.Then, it was the turn of Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja to spin a web around the hapless RCB batsmen. Imran Tahir took three wickets and gave away just nine runs in his quota of four overs. Ravindra Jadeja also joined the party as he made sure that he built pressure from the other end. No one except Parthiv Patel showed any signs of fight as Virat Kohli's men folded up for a paltry 70.This small target was never going to be a cause for concern for the defending champions. The home team started the chase on a cautious note but eventually chased down the target with ease.Here is how the world reacted to the IPL opener:Virat Kohli: No one wants to start like this, but it's good to get a game like this out of the way - this early in the tournament. We spoke of trying to be in the game, taking it to the 18th over was nice to see.The batting wasn't good, the pitch wasn't easy to bat on, I thought 140-150 would have been an ideal score, especially with dew expected later on. A scrappy start to the league, but I don't think either team had control over it, the pitch was under the covers for 4 days, but we should have batted better, 110-120 would have been a fighting score.MS Dhoni: I wasn't sure about the wicket. We played a practice match on this wicket and it was a high scoring match, but usually in practice matches we score 30 runs more than a normal match. But we were really surprised by how slow the wicket was. It reminded me of a Champions League wicket in 2011 after we won the IPL. The wicket definitely needs to be much better, even with dew it was spinning big. 80, 90, 100 is really low-scoring and if you have genuine spinners in your lineup you can create a lot of trouble. Harbhajan's is one slot and we'll shuffle it around. He would never mind bowling on such wickets. Other teams have good spinners as well and this isn't the pitch we are looking forward to.Harbhajan Singh: I have learnt quite a lot while sitting next to the legends in the commentary box. It is nice to be out there in the park and it is a special one for me.I would like to give a lot of credit to my wife and daughter for this award. You can't ask for a better start - they had a lot of left-handers and Fleming told me that I would be playing and bowling in the power-play. It was nice to get a wicket up front and it gets easier after that. Nice to get the Man of the Match award in the first match and hopefully we can carry on from here.Ramesh Srivats:#IPL2019My story every season - C'mon RCB, C'mon RCB, ... a week or two later ... er... C'mon CSK.— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) March 23, 2019Gaurav Kalra:new season and all that but CSK are doing CSK things and RCB are doing RCB things #IPL2019— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) March 23, 2019Deepu Narayanan:Most single figure scores in an inngs in IPL (for all teams):11 RCB v KKR, Kolkata, 201710 RCB v KKR, Bengaluru, 200810 RCB v RPS, Pune, 201710 RCB v CSK, Chennai, 2019 *#CSKvRCB— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) March 23, 2019Ayaz Memon:Not great pitch for batting, low scoring match, but it’s held interest must say. Why should batsmen always have the advantage? If RCB had, say, 30 runs more to defend with another spinner in the attack...— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) March 23, 2019Lawrence Booth:Only Parthiv Patel reaches double figures for RCB. Chennai going to be tough to beat on turning pitches, with Tahir, Jadeja and Harbhajan.— Lawrence Booth (@the_topspin) March 23, 2019Glenn McGrath:It’s a good thing I decided to support @chennaiipl 😉 #ipl2019 #chennai https://t.co/s0TsZFNRT1— Glenn McGrath (@glennmcgrath11) March 23, 2019Harsha Bhogle:This is incredible. Tough pitch, but not a 70 all out one. Oh #RCB.— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 23, 2019Bharath Seervi:Lowest totals in IPL's first match of the season:70 - RCB v CSK, 201982 - RCB v KKR, 2008#CSKvRCB #IPL2019— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) March 23, 2019Aakash Chopra:Spin to Win for #CSK. The wait for the team in Red continues.... #IPL #CSKvRCB— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) March 23, 2019Anand Vasu:As a goodwill gesture Dhoni should keep wicket for RCB, make bowling changes and set the field. #IPL— Anand Vasu (@anandvasu) March 23, 2019