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Chennai Super Kings defeated Sahara Pune Warriors at DY Patil, Navi Mumbai as they prevail upon Pune in the second consecutive game. Pune captain Yuvraj won the toss and decided to bat. Pune Warriors once again kept on losing wickets and the captain Yuvraj Singh has to step up himself as he scored 62 runs off 43 balls to guide Pune to 141/6 in 20 overs with some support from Robin Uthappa (31 runs off 22 balls). Doug Bollinger took 3 wickets for CSK. In reply, Chennai Super Kings almost cruised to the total as Subramanium Badrinath (63 runs off 44 balls), Suresh Raina (34 runs off 25 balls) and Murali Vijay (31 runs off 31 balls) helped CSK reach 145/2 in 19.3 overs. Doug Bollinger was awarded the Man of the Match of his 3 wickets for 21 runs.

Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs at Chepauk today. Chennai captain Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. Michael Hussey (83 runs off 56 balls) who joined the CSK squad today played a gem of an innings and he was supported by Murali Vijay (31 off 21), Suresh Raina (29 off 16) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (22 off 16) as they reached 183/5 in 20 overs. Bangalore lost early wickets in reply and a valiant effort by AB De Villiers (65 runs off 44 balls) could not secure them a win as they finished 21 runs short at 164/7 in their 20 overs. Michael Hussey was awarded the Man of the Match for his excellent knock.

Th GOD of cricket Sachin Tendulkar and former Indian captain Saurav Ganguly will lead their respective teams as they clash in a T20 match on Saturday, 6th March, 2010 at 4:30 PM Indian Time. The match named “Cricket Ka Mahayudh” will be played at the Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai. It has also been termed as a SABM (Salil Ankola Benefit Match) and will be a T20 match. The gates will open at 2 PM and the toss would take place at 4:15 PM. The Match will be telecast on Star Cricket.

The teams look very strong and Dada’s team seem to a bit stronger than Sachin’s team at least on papers. But as you know in T20 nothing can be predicted. Here are the team lineups:

Ganguly XI
Saurav Ganguly (Captain)
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Irfan Pathan
Ishant Sharma
Anil Kumble
VVS Laxman
Aashish Nehra
Amit Mishra
Pragyan Ojha
Ravindra Jadeja
Yogesh Takwale

Tendulkar XI
Sachin Tendulkar (Captain)
Yusuf Pathan
Harbhajan Singh
Rohit Sharma
Ajit Agarkar
Wasim Jaffer
Rishikesh Kanetkar
Abhishek Nair
Vinayak Samant
Avi Salvi
Murtuza Hussain
Iqbal Abdulla
Rohan Raje
Ajinkya Rahane
Karan Ankola
Jude Singh

The stadium tickets are also priced quite reasonably for this charity match with general tickets costing only Rs.250 and VIP tickets are Rs.1000. You can also book the tickets online at Mobstreet

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.

Full Scorecard

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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