April 28, 2009

Cricket: "Chennai Super Kings trash Bangalore Royal Challengers"

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Chennai Super Kings trash Bangalore Royal Challengers beating them with 92 runs at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. Chennai Super Kings put the past back and had a thumping win again hapless Bangalore Royal Challengers. They showed their command in all departments.

Chennai won the toss and rightly elected to bat first. Patel and Hayden scored the first century parnership of this series and midway they were 106 without loss. Hayden was more harsh on bangalore, milking 4's and 6's. After the strategic timeout momentom was little deviated towards bangalore as patel was bowled by pietersen. Next ball hayden was runout of dravid's fielding. Then raina kept the momentum going and at end flintoff made sure that the start was not wasted and Chennai compiled a mamoth 179.

In reply bangalore lost early wicket through Praveen Kumar, who was promoted up the order as pinch hitter but was out bowled by Gony in the very first over. There on Uthappa and Kallis added 40 runs for second wicket, Once kallis was out to morkel wickets kept falling like playing cards. With the exception of dravid no other batsmen scored a reasonable score. They were allout for pathetic 87 in 15.2 overs. The wrecker in chief was Murali with 3 for 11 and was well supported by other chennai bowlers.

Man of the Match was rightly awarded to Muralitharan for his 3 for 11 in 4 four overs.

Scores: Chennai Super Kings 179 for 5 (Hayden 65) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 87 (Murali 3-11) by 92 runs


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