Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 31: Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings"

Hi and Welcome to the 31st match of the IPL 2011 season between Chennai Super Kings and Pune Warriors. Chennai Super Kings are on a high after their recent win and Pune warriors are a little bit low after their recent loss will try to amend their loss with a win here. Lets see how they would progress ahead in this tournment.

Pune warriors won the toss and opted to bat first. JD Ryder and MD Mishra Opened the batting for Pune Warriors, for Chennai Super kings KMDN Kulasekara and DE Bollinger opened the bowling. Chennai super kings DE Bollinger destroyed Pune Warriors batting when he had both the openers in the fourth over. Pune warriors kept loosing wickets at regular intervals and it was left to the old dark horses Yuvraj singh and RV Uthappa to revive Pune Warriors score. Both of them added another 42 runs in 6 overs before RV Uthappa was out to R Ashwin. Yuvraj Singh completed his half century and made sure that Pune warriors reached a respectable total of 141 in their 20 overs for the loss of 6 wickets. For Pune Warriors Yuvraj singh scored 62* and RV Uthappa scored 31, Chennai super kings DE Bollinger took 3 wickets.

In reply Chennai super kings started rather cautiously and in the process lost MEK Hussey for 9 in the 5th over when Chennai super kings score was 19. M Vijay and S Badrinath took on the attack to Pune warriors bowlers and scored at will. Once M Vijay was out for 31 of JD Ryder, S Badrinath and SK Raina made sure that there were no more casualties and took Chennai Super Kings home with 8 wickets and 3 balls to spare. For Chennai Super kings S Badrinath scored 63* and SK Raina 34*, for Pune Warriors M Kartik and JD Ryder took a wicket a piece.


Man of the Match is DE Bollinger for his spell of 3/21 of 4 overs

Score : Chennai Super Kings 145 for 2 (S Badrinath 63*, SK Raina 34*, JD Ryder 1/21) beat Pune Warriors 141 for 6 (Yuvraj Singh 62*, RV Uthappa 31, DE Bollinger 3/21) by eight wickets