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Chennai Super Kings beat Kings XI Punjab by 24 run in Match 54 of IPL T20 season 2 virtually eliminating them from the semi finals. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. All the Chennai Super Kings batsmen struggled with the bat and could only score 116/9 in 20 overs. It looked like an easy target for Kings XI Punjab but they lost wickets at regular intervals as pressure was applied by Dhoni and ended at only 92/8 in 20 overs. Muttiah Muralidaran, Ravichandran Ashwin and Suresh Raina had the best bowling figures for the Chennai Super Kings with figures of 2/8, 2/13 and 2/17 respectively. Muttiah Muralidaran was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant bowling performance.

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Chennai Super Kings

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
George Bailey run out (Yuvraj Singh) 15 12 3 0 125
Parthiv Patel (W) b Ramesh Powar 32 23 4 1 139.13
Suresh Raina c Brett Lee b Wilkin Mota 20 21 2 0 95.24
Subramaniam Badrinath c Irfan Pathan b Sreesanth 4 9 0 0 44.44
MS Dhoni (C) b Sreesanth 2 2 0 0 100
Jacob Oram c & b Irfan Pathan 17 21 1 0 80.95
Manpreet Gony b Piyush Chawla 7 5 0 1 140
Ravichandran Ashwin c Luke Pomersbach b Irfan Pathan 8 15 1 0 53.33
Thilan Thushara run out (Simon Katich) 1 5 0 0 20
Lakshmipathy Balaji not out 2 6 0 0 33.33
Muttiah Muralidaran not out 1 1 0 0 100
Extras: b - 3, w - 2, nb - 0, lb - 2 7
Total: (116 for 9 wickets in 20.0 overs) 116 Run Rate: 5.8

Fall of Wickets1-40 (George Bailey, 4.5), 2-54 (Parthiv Patel, 6.5), 3-68 (Subramaniam Badrinath, 9.3), 4-70 (MS Dhoni, 9.5), 5-87 (Suresh Raina, 13.3), 6-96 (Manpreet Gony, 14.4), 7-105 (Jacob Oram, 17.4), 8-109 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 18), 9-114 (Thilan Thushara, 19.4)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Brett Lee 4 0 16 0 0 0 4
Irfan Pathan 4 0 32 2 0 1 8
Ramesh Powar 4 0 19 1 0 0 4.75
Sreesanth 4 0 23 2 0 1 5.75
Piyush Chawla 2 0 13 1 0 0 6.5
Wilkin Mota 2 0 8 1 0 0 4

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Kings XI Punjab

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Sunny Sohal c Parthiv Patel b Thilan Thushara 3 9 0 0 33.33
Simon Katich b Muttiah Muralidaran 8 13 1 0 61.54
Luke Pomersbach c Suresh Raina b Muttiah Muralidaran 26 32 1 1 81.25
Yuvraj Singh (C) b Suresh Raina 6 19 0 0 31.58
Kumar Sangakkara (W) c & b Ravichandran Ashwin 7 9 0 0 77.78
Wilkin Mota lbw b Ravichandran Ashwin 5 10 0 0 50
Irfan Pathan c Jacob Oram b Thilan Thushara 14 12 1 0 116.67
Brett Lee c Jacob Oram b Suresh Raina 6 7 1 0 85.71
Piyush Chawla not out 4 4 0 0 100
Ramesh Powar not out 7 5 1 0 140
Sreesanth
Extras: b - 0, w - 3, nb - 0, lb - 3 6
Total: (92 for 8 wickets in 20.0 overs) 92 Run Rate: 4.6

Fall of Wickets1-6 (Sunny Sohal, 1.5), 2-32 (Simon Katich, 6.5), 3-45 (Luke Pomersbach, 11.1), 4-49 (Yuvraj Singh, 12.4), 5-59 (Kumar Sangakkara, 15.1), 6-60 (Wilkin Mota, 15.3), 7-67 (Brett Lee, 16.5), 8-83 (Irfan Pathan, 18.5)

Bowling (Chennai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Manpreet Gony 2 0 9 0 0 0 4.5
Thilan Thushara 4 0 28 2 0 2 7
Muttiah Muralidaran 4 0 8 2 0 0 2
Ravichandran Ashwin 4 0 13 2 0 0 3.25
Suresh Raina 4 0 17 2 0 1 4.25
Lakshmipathy Balaji 2 0 14 0 0 0 7

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Deccan Chargers were at the last position in IPL T20 season 1 while Chennai Super Kings were the finalist last year. But times have changed and fortunes also seemed to have changed as the match results showed. Adam Gilchrist won the toss and put Chennai Super Kings to bat. Though Chennai Super Kings lost a few wickets but due to a brilliant innings by Matthew Hayden (49 off 35 balls), they were cruising at 88/2 after 10 overs. But then the CSK batsmen struggled and failed to capitalize on the terrific start and ended at 165/6 in 20 overs. Pragyan Ojha was good with the ball for the chargers and took 2 wickets for 11 runs in 2 overs. Deccan Chargers started their innings with sixes and fours throughout the ground by Adam Gilchrist (44 off 19 balls) and Hershelle Gibbs (69 off 56 balls) and they reached 60 in merely 4 overs. Though Chennai Super Kings tried to take a few wickets and curb down the run rate but it was too late and Deccan Chargers cruised to 169/4 in 19.3 overs. Suresh Raina did well for the Super Kings with 2 wickets for 18 runs. Hershelle Gibbs was awarded the Man of the Match for his splendid innings of 69 runs off 56 balls.

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Chennai Super Kings

Batsmen    Status    Runs    Balls    4s    6s    S.Rate
Parthiv Patel     c Adam Gilchrist b Fidel Edwards    0    2    0    0    0
Matthew Hayden     c Rohit Sharma b Pragyan Ojha    49    35    8    0    140
Suresh Raina     c & b Rohit Sharma    25    19    1    2    131.58
MS Dhoni (C) (W)     c Shoaib Ahmed b Pragyan Ojha    22    22    1    1    100
Jacob Oram     not out    41    29    4    2    141.38
Albie Morkel     c RP Singh b Venugopal Rao    13    7    1    1    185.71
Subramaniam Badrinath     c & b RP Singh    8    9    0    0    88.89
Manpreet Gony     not out    0    0    0    0
Joginder Sharma
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Muttiah Muralidaran
Extras: b - 0, w - 4, nb - 3, lb - 0    7
Total: (165 for 6 wickets in 20.0 overs)    165    Run Rate: 8.25

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Parthiv Patel, 0.2), 2-64 (Suresh Raina, 6.5), 3-102 (MS Dhoni, 12.3), 4-103 (Matthew Hayden, 13), 5-129 (Albie Morkel, 16.5), 6-165 (Subramaniam Badrinath, 19.5)

Bowling (Hyderabad)Bowler    O    M    R    W    nb    wd    R/O
Fidel Edwards     4    0    21    1    0    0    5.25
RP Singh     3    0    32    1    3    2    10.67
Dwayne Smith     1    0    17    0    0    0    17
Venugopal Rao     4    0    35    1    0    1    8.75
Rohit Sharma     3    0    18    1    0    0    6
Pragyan Ojha     2    0    11    2    0    0    5.5
Shoaib Ahmed     3    0    31    0    0    1    10.33

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Deccan Chargers

Batsmen    Status    Runs    Balls    4s    6s    S.Rate
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W)     c Muttiah Muralidaran b Suresh Raina    44    19    5    3    231.58
Herschelle Gibbs     not out    69    56    6    2    123.21
VVS Laxman     c Jacob Oram b Suresh Raina    4    5    0    0    80
Rohit Sharma     c MS Dhoni b Lakshmipathy Balaji    18    19    0    1    94.74
Dwayne Smith     lbw b Muttiah Muralidaran    12    5    1    1    240
Azharuddin Bilakhia     not out    12    14    1    0    85.71
Venugopal Rao
RP Singh
Fidel Edwards
Shoaib Ahmed
Pragyan Ojha
Extras: b - 0, w - 3, nb - 5, lb - 2    10
Total: (169 for 4 wickets in 19.3 overs)    169    Run Rate: 8.67

Fall of Wickets1-67 (Adam Gilchrist, 5.4), 2-75 (VVS Laxman, 7.3), 3-114 (Rohit Sharma, 13.4), 4-130 (Dwayne Smith, 15.2)

Bowling (Chennai)Bowler    O    M    R    W    nb    wd    R/O
Lakshmipathy Balaji     3.3    0    41    1    0    1    11.71
Manpreet Gony     1    0    20    0    0    1    20
Albie Morkel     3    0    29    0    1    0    9.67
Muttiah Muralidaran     4    0    17    1    0    1    4.25
Suresh Raina     4    0    18    2    0    0    4.5
Joginder Sharma     1    0    14    0    0    0    14
Jacob Oram     3    0    28    0    0    0    9.33

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Chennai Super Kings has a defeat in their first IPL match against Mumbai Indians. On the other hand, Bangalore Royal Challengers had deated IPL T20 season 1 champions Rajasthan Royals in their opening match. But everybody knew that Dhoni and his boys had the potential to return back strongly in the tournament. And that is what they did with a resounding win of 92 runs. Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. Matthew Hayden (65 off 35 balls) and Parthiv Patel (30 off 26 balls) smashed the Bangalore bowlers for fours and sixes and the Chennai Super Kings reached 106/0 in the first 10 overs itself. Though Chennai lost wickets at regular intervals after that but the base laid by Hayden was enough to cruise them CSK to 179/5 in their 20 overs. Bangalore Royal Challengers lost wickets at regular intervals when they came to bat and the efforts of Jacques Kallis (24 off 19 balls), Rahul Dravid (20 off 18 balls) and Robin Uthappa (20 off 19 balls) were not enough as they were bundled out for 87 runs in 15.2 overs. Muttiah Muralidharan bowled a super spell of 3/11 which fetched him the Man of the Match award.

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Chennai
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Parthiv Patel (W) b Kevin Pietersen 30 26 2 1 115.38
Matthew Hayden run out (Rahul Dravid) 65 35 9 2 185.71
Suresh Raina c Virat Kohli b Praveen Kumar 28 29 1 1 96.55
MS Dhoni (C) c Rajesh Bishnoi b Praveen Kumar 16 14 0 1 114.29
Andrew Flintoff not out 22 13 2 1 169.23
Albie Morkel b Dale Steyn 5 3 1 0 166.67
Subramaniam Badrinath
Joginder Sharma
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Manpreet Gony
Muttiah Muralidaran
Extras: b - 0, w - 8, nb - 0, lb - 5 13
Total: (179 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 179 Run Rate: 8.95
Fall of Wickets
1-106 (Parthiv Patel, 10.1), 2-106 (Matthew Hayden, 10.2), 3-144 (MS Dhoni, 16), 4-165 (Suresh Raina, 19), 5-179 (Albie Morkel, 20)

Bowling (Bangalore)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Praveen Kumar 4 0 37 2 0 0 9.25
Dale Steyn 4 0 35 1 0 2 8.75
Jacques Kallis 2 0 28 0 0 0 14
Vinay Kumar 1 0 12 0 0 0 12
Virat Kohli 1 0 9 0 0 0 9
Anil Kumble 4 0 26 0 0 1 6.5
Kevin Pietersen 3 0 14 1 0 0 4.67
Ross Taylor 1 0 13 0 0 1 13

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Bangalore

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Praveen Kumar b Manpreet Gony 0 3 0 0 0
Robin Uthappa (W) st MS Dhoni b Muttiah Muralidaran 20 19 2 0 105.26
Jacques Kallis lbw b Albie Morkel 24 19 5 0 126.32
Ross Taylor c & b Andrew Flintoff 1 4 0 0 25
Kevin Pietersen (C) lbw b Muttiah Muralidaran 0 1 0 0 0
Rahul Dravid c Andrew Flintoff b Lakshmipathy Balaji 20 18 2 0 111.11
Virat Kohli c Subramaniam Badrinath b Joginder Sharma 11 13 0 1 84.62
Rajesh Bishnoi c Lakshmipathy Balaji b Muttiah Muralidaran 0 1 0 0 0
Vinay Kumar c Matthew Hayden b Lakshmipathy Balaji 5 6 0 0 83.33
Dale Steyn run out (Suresh Raina) 0 3 0 0 0
Anil Kumble not out 1 5 0 0 20
Extras: b - 0, w - 4, nb - 0, lb - 1 5
Total: (87 for 10 wickets in 15.2 overs) 87 Run Rate: 5.67

Fall of Wickets
1-0 (Praveen Kumar, 0.3), 2-40 (Jacques Kallis, 5.2), 3-47 (Ross Taylor, 6.5), 4-49 (Kevin Pietersen, 7.3), 5-50 (Robin Uthappa, 7.5), 6-66 (Virat Kohli, 10.5), 7-66 (Rajesh Bishnoi, 11.1), 8-74 (Vinay Kumar, 12.4), 9-78 (Dale Steyn, 13.3), 10-87 (Rahul Dravid, 15.2)

Bowling (Chennai)
Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Manpreet Gony 3 0 24 1 0 2 8
Lakshmipathy Balaji 2.2 0 18 2 0 0 7.71
Albie Morkel 2 0 12 1 0 1 6
Andrew Flintoff 3 0 11 1 0 0 3.67
Muttiah Muralidaran 4 1 11 3 0 0 2.75
Joginder Sharma 1 0 10 1 0 1 10
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Andrew Flintoff is quite hopeful that his appearance in the IPL T20 season 2 will help him in learning a lot about the T20 game. Flintoff will be playing his first IPL match for Chennai Super Kings on April 18 against Mumbai Indians after CSK had bought him for $1.55 in the IPL auctions this year. Last year the English players were not allowed to play in IPL but four English players have been bought by the IPL franchisees this year including Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen. Flintoff has been suffering from injuries and problems for quite sometime but he thinks the IPL would help him revive his body once again. And he believes that this would help him immensely in preparations for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in England which would follow the IPL. He also said that he would great benefit being in Chennai Super Kings as he would be able to learn from great players like Dhoni, Hayden and Muralidharan. He said that he would be speaking to the other Indian guys too and try to ‘pick their brains’. He believes that the league is a very good platform to exchange knowledge between the players and he will also benefit from it.

However, Flintoff is also worried that the English players should not reveal too much information about their team-mates while conversing with their IPL team-mates as that might be detrimental for England team. Flintoff’s second match would be against his English team-mate Kevin Pietersen’s side Bangalore Royal Challengers on April 20. Anyways lets wait and see how IPL would help Flintoff and how Flintoff would help IPL.