Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 39: Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers"

Hi and Welcome to the Match No 39 of the IPL 2011 season between Chennai Super Kings and Deccan Chargers. Chennai Super Kings are coming from behind and are currently in top four of the points table and on other hand Deccan Chargers have just come out of the bottom and placed at 6th place. Lets see who takes the advantage going ahead.

Chennai Super kings won the toss and elected to bat first. For Chennai Super kings M Vijay and MEK Hussey opened the batting, for Deccan Chargers surprisingly JP Duminy opened the bowling. Chennai super kings lost M Vijay early when he was bowled by PP Oha for 3 with chennai super kings score at 18 in 3.4 overs. MEK Hussey and SK Raina then played brilliantly and moved on. MEK Hussey was out to Harmeet singh and SK Raina continued his big hitting on another end. MS Dhoni and JA Morkel chipped in with useful contributions. I Sharma and A Mishra the start bowlers for Deccan Chargers in IPL 2011 season where out of color today. Backed by SK Raina's half century Chennai Super Kings scored 165 for the loss of 5 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. For Chennai super kings SK Raina scored 59, MEK Hussey scored 46 and JA Morkel 19, for Deccan Chargers PP Ojha took 3 wickets.

In reply Deccan chargers opened the batting with S Sohal and S Dhawan, for Chennai Super kings JA Morkel opened the bowling. S Sohal gave a fanstastic start to Deccan Chargers chase when he scored 56 of just 30 balls, for once he was bowled by SB Jakati. Chennai Super kings applied the pressure and Deccan Chargers kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. KC Sangakkara too fell to DE Bollinger and Deccan Chargers Managed to score just 146 for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Chennai Super kings won by 19 runs. For Deccan Chargers S Sohal scored 56, for Chennai Super Kings JA Morkel took 3 wickets.



Man of the Match is JA Morkel for his 3 monstrous sixes and 3 wickets.

Score : Chennai Super Kings 165 for 5 (SK Raina 59, MEK Hussey 46, JA Morkel 19, PP Ojha 3/26) beat Deccan Chargers 146 for 8 (S Sohal 56, JA Morkel 3/38) by 19 runs

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 25: Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings"

Welcome to Match No: 25 between the giants of IPL 2011 Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. These are the defending finalist of the IPL 2010. Both the teams are likely favourites this time around too, lets see how the encounter went through.

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and their captain Dhoni elected to field first. For Mumbai Indians R Sathish and Tendulkar opened the batting and for Chennai Super kings JA Morkel opened the bowling. Mumbai Indians lost both the openers R Sathish and Tendulkar quiet cheaply and the Chennai Super Kings bowlers where threatening to make further in roads into Mumbai Indians. Then came Rohit Sharma for the rescue, he and Rayudu played very well and their parternship of 61 helped Mumbai Indians out of trouble. Once Rayudu was out Rohit sharma and Symmonds made sure Mumbai Indians reached a above par total of 164 of their 20 overs. For Mumbai Indians Rohit sharma scored 87, Symmonds 31 and Rayudu 27, for Chennai Super Kings Bollinger took 2 wickets.

Chennai super kings had a good start from their openers Hussey and vijay. Munaf provided the first break through for Mumbai Indians when he dismissed Vijay for 12 in 4th over. Chennai super kings lost raina quickly for 5 caught and bowled by Harbhajan. Hussey and Badrinath partnerhsip was threatening to take the match away. then entered malinga, who bowled a short ball to hussey who then tires to pull but coudnt get enough and outside edge was just touching the ground that pollard dived full length to catch it and give hopes for Mumbai Indians. Once Hussey was back to the pavilion, Chennai super kings lost wickets at regular intervals but Badrinath played his shots from other end and match was undecided till the last three balls where 17 was required of 3 balls. Munaf bowled nervless 3 balls and Mumbai where home with 8 runs. For chennai super kings Badrinath socred 71* and Hussey 41, for Mumbai Indians Harbhajan took 5 wickets.

Mumbai Indians Harbhajan Singh won Man of the Match for his 5 wickets.

Score: Mumbai Indians 164 for 4 (Rohit 87, Symonds 31, Bollinger 2-30) beat Chennai Super Kings 156 for 9 (Badrinath 71*, Hussey 41, Harbhajan 5-18) by eight runs

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 18: Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Chennai Super Kings"

Hello and welcome to Match No 18 of the IPL 2011 season between Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Chennai Super Kings. Kochi Tuskers Kerala didnt had a good debut and lost their initial matches and on other hand Chennai Super Kings have been in good form and looking good. Can Kochi Tuskers Kerala open their winning account with todays win, lets see how the match progressed.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala won the toss and elected to bowl first. For Chennai Super Kings MEK Hussey and M Vijay, for Kochi Tuskers Kerala RP Singh opened the bowling. Chennai Super Kings lost MEK Hussey early to RP Singh for 8. M Vijay and SK Raina played some good shots to take the score near 50 that M Vijay was out. SK Raina held the innings at one end, but other end Chennai lost wickets at regular intervals. S Badrinath and MS Dhoni played little cameos. Chennai Super Kings scored 131 for the loss of 4 wickets in 17 overs. For Chennai Super Kings SK Raina scored 50 and M Vijay scored 28, for Kochi Tuskers Kerala RP Singh, NLTC Perera and RV Gomez took a wicket each.

In reply Kochi Tuskers Kerala opened the batting with BB McCullum and DPMD Jayawardene, for Chennai Super Kings JA Morkel opened the bowling. BB McCullum gave a fantastic start to Kochi Tuskers Kerala. Inspite of DPMD Jayawardene was gone for 16 to R Ashwin when the score was 39 of 4.3 overs, BB McCullum and PA Patel scored at a rapid pace and took score at 90 with over 10 overs. Chennai Super Kings came back with wickets of BB McCullum and PA Patel, but the damage was already done. BJ Hodge and RA Jadeja then steered Kochi Tuskers Kerala home with 7 wickets in hand and 2 overs to spare. For Kochi Tuskers Kerala BB McCullum scored 47 and PA Patel scored 34, for Chennai Super Kings R Ashwin took 2 wickets.

Man of the Match is BB McCullum for his 47.

Score : 17 overs Kochi Tuskers Kerala 135 for 3 (BB McCullum 47, PA Patel 34, R Ashwin 2/31) beat Chennai Super Kings 131 for 4 (SK Raina 50, M Vijay 28, RV Gomez 1/20) by seven wickets (D/L method)

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 14: Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore"

Hi and Welcome to the Match No 14 of the IPL season 2011 between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Chennai Super Kings had good begining to this IPL and they are the defending champions and on other side Royal challengers Bangalore havent had any impact and they getting worse with each game. lets see if they can make their role reversal or will it be the same.

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. For Chennai Super Kings MEK Hussey and M Vijay opened the batting, for Royal challengers Bangalore Zaheer Khan opened the bowling. Chennai Super Kings had a great start when they where 50 without any loss in 6 overs. Royal challengers Bangalore lost M Vijay and SK Raina played some great shots and had palyed a cameo with 29 runs. MS Dhoni too played few shots in his innings of 22 runs. MEK Hussey played brilliantly and carried his bat thru and made sure chennai scored a defendable total of 183 runs with a loss of 5 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. for Chennai super kings MEK Hussey scored 83* and M Vijay scored 31, for Royal challengers Bangalore JJ van der Wath and R Ninan took two wickets each.

In reply royal challengers bangalore opened the batting with MA Agarwal and TM Dilshan, Chennai Super kings opened the bowling with JA Morkel. Royal challengers Bangalore lost two quick wickets with just 17 on the board. V Kohli and AB de Villiers tried to repair the damage and in the process of scoring quickly V kohli was out to SB Jakati. There on Royal Challengers Bangalore kept loosing wickets at regular intervals and scored just 162 for the loss of 7 wickets in their permitted 20 overs. For Royal challengers Bangalore AB de Villiers scored 65 and V Kohli 35, for Chennai Super kings JA Morkel and S Randiv took two wickets each.



Man of the Match is MEK Hussey for his 83*

Score : Chennai Super Kings 183 for 5 (MEK Hussey 83*, M Vijay 31, R Ninan 2/31, JJ van der Wath 2/49) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 162 for 7 (AB de Villiers 65, V Kohli 35, S Randiv 2/24, JA Morkel 2/34) by 21 runs.

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 9: Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings"

Hello and welcome to the 9th Match of the IPL 2011 Season between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings after initial success and looking pretty good and Kings XI Punjab after their disastrous first match are looking to start it fresh. Lets see who will have the upper hand going forward in IPL 2011 season.

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and selected to bowl first. For Chennai Super Kings S Anirudha and M Vijay opened the batting, for Kings XI Punjab P Kumar openined the bowling. Kings XI Punjab tasted success when P Kumar got the wicket of S Anirudha of the very first ball and SK Raina of the very next ball. M Vijay and S Badrinath then shared a brilliant 124 partnership in less than 15 overs. When M Vijay was out to PP Chawla MS Dhoni joined S Badrinath and scored 64 of the next 5 overs and gave Chennai Super kings an excellent total of 188 for the loss of 4 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. For Chennai Super kings M Vijay Scored 74, S Badrinath scored 66* and MS Dhoni 43, for Kings XI Punjab P Kumar took 2 wickets.

In reply Kings XI Punjab opened with PC Valthaty (A relatively new face) and their captain AC Gilchrist, as usual R Ashwin opened the bowling for Chennai Super Kings. Kings XI Punjab had a fanstastic start when PC Valthaty blasted chennai super kings bowlers to all parts of the ground. Inspite of Kings XI Punjab loosing wickets at one end, he continued his clean hits from other end and kept the required run rate under control. KD Karthik joined him in the end and PC Valthaty and KD Karthik took Kings XI Punjab home with 6 wickets in hand and nearly one over to spare. PC Valthaty scored a brillinat century and paced the chase brilliantly. For Kings XI Punjab PC Valthaty scored 120* and KD Karthik 21*, for Chennai Super kings TG Southee, JA Morkel and S Randiv took a wicket a piece.


Man of the Match is PC Valthaty for his brilliant century.

Score : Kings XI Punjab 193 for 4 (PC Valthaty 120*, KD Karthik 21*, S Randiv 1/32) beat Chennai Super Kings 188 for 4 (M Vijay 74, S Badrinath 66*, MS Dhoni 43, P Kumar 2/37) by six wickets

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 1: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkatta knight Riders"

Hi and welcome to IPL 2011. After the very popular and superb world cup here we are with the 4th edition of IPL in 2011. After the breath taking opening ceremony we are here with the inaugural match of IPL 2011 between Defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Kolkatta Knight Riders.

Chennai super kings won the toss and Chennai super kings captain dhoni elected to bat first. Chennai lost Murli vijay in the first over to Iqbal Abdullah. Raina and Anirudha played really well and took chennai to 80 after 10 overs. Dhoni came to the crease after Raina was out for 33. Dhoni too played a camero of 29 runs. Anirudha played anchors role and made a patient and superb 64. Chennai made a decent and competitive score of 153 in their allotted 20 overs. Kallis was the most successful bowler for Kolkatta Knight Riders with 2 wickets.

Kolkatta Knight Riders had a good start when bisla and Kallis added 64 for the first wicket. Once bisla was out to Jakati Kolkatta Knight Riders panicked and Chennai super kings applied more pressure. Tiwaris 2 sixes gave a hope for Kolkatta Knight Riders but Chennai super kings kept their cool at the end to seal a nail biting 2 run win. For Kolkatta Knight Riders Kallis top scored with 54 runs and for Chennai Super Kings Southee, Ashwin, Randiv, Jakati and Raina took a wicket a piece.

Chennai Super Kings S Anirudha was adjudged Man of the Match

Score: Chennai Super Kings 153 for 4 (S Anirudha 64, Raina 33, Kallis 2/34) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 151 for 7 (Kallis 54, Jakati 1/26, Ashwin 1/26) by 2 runs

Cricket: Wounded Laxman steers india to one wicket win

India Vs Australia First Test

I am writing this at 01:41 PM CST, watching the final day session two after lunch. Where india need 54 runs and Johnson is bowling to ishant.

After a long time india is looking beyound Srilanka. Yeah there is a surprise for you, India is going to play Australia their favourite opponents. Lately India Vs Australia series has been one of the toughest and closest.

First test started with the same promise. As usual Dhoni lost the toss and Ponting choose to bat first. India's bowling was spearheaded by Zaheer, others to assist him where Ishant, Harbhajan and Ojha. Zaheer got rid of Katich early, but ponting and watson got the things going. Raina brilliantly ran out ponting and gave india the much needed momentum to make inroads at regular intervals. Watson stood firm and completed his century at other end. India kept on the pressure but paine and johnson took them past the 400 run score. Zaheer took a five for and paine missed what could have been his maiden test century. He made a patient 92. Australia scored 428 in their first innings.

India started their first inning with their most successful opening partners sehwag and gambhir. India started well and where going run a ball until gambhir was out. Sehwag soon followed him after a brisk half century. After night watchmen ishants departure tendulkar and dravid held the innings together and scored half centuries respectively. After dravid's departure raina came and gave support to sachin who was eventullay out 2 short of his century. Once sachin was out Australia crawled back into the game and polished off the tail and india were allout for 405 runs. Australia got the upperhand by taking a 23 run lead. Johnson took a five for australia and for india sehwag,dravid, tendulkar and raina scored half centuries.

Australia after their 23 run lead started their second innings to build the lead. Watson started positively and scored at a brisk rate. In no time he reached his half century and with katich was looking good to extend the lead futher more. Ishant who was wayward in the first innings got his rhythm back and took three quick wickets to peg australia back. Indian spinners took the charge next and had four wickets between them as Zaheer returned to complete the tail with his ferocious reverse swing. Australia where all out for 192 and setting india a target of 216 runs. For australia watson made half century and for india zaheer and ishant took 3 wickets a piece.

India's chase was hit right in the first over when Gambhir was adjudged LBW when the ball was clearly going leg side. Inspite of the early first wicket india tried to score runs at faster rate, generally thats the case though when sehwag is around in the middle. End of the fourth day with late burst form the australia bowlers india were reduced to 55 for 4 and still needing 161 on the lastday and only 6 wickets in hand which includes laxman who had injured his back and will bat only if required.

Fifth day started with all the possible results possible. Tendulkar and zaheer started well and were steady until zaheer was out to hauritz. Laxman came to bat with raina as runner as he had a bad back. Laxman and Tendulkar started the counter attack and started scoring at a faster pace and didnt allowed any bowler to settle. Tendulkar was out for 38, dhoni and harbhajan followed him soon and india required another 92 runs and just two wickets in hand. Then came Ishant to support laxman in the middle. Ishant blocked the australia bowlers with determination and on the other hand helped laxman score runs at will. They added 81 runs and where almost at touching distance that another bad umpiring saw Ishant walking back to pavilion. Wicket of Ishant raise lot of hopes for australians as they were just a wicket away from victory. Ojha looked very tensed but he managed to hold on. Ojha was lucky to miss a close LBW call and a run out for which he got four overthrows. He flicked the ball towards leg and completed 2 runs and gave india victory by one run.

Laxman was unbeaten on 73 from 79 balls as india registered their first one wicket win in tests. Laxman was the man of the moment, no one knows why he plays so well against a team which is hightly rated for their skills in cricket. He was given a special prize for this efforts during the presentation ceremony.

Zaheer was adjudged man of the match for his crucial 8 wickets.

Score: India 405 (Tendulkar 98, Raina 86, Johnson 5/64) and 216 for 9 (Laxman 73*, Hilfenhaus 4/57, Bollinger 3/32) beat Australia 428 (Watson 126, Paine 92, Zaheer 5/94) and 192 (Watson 56, Ishant 3/34, Zaheer 3/43) by 1 wicket

Cricket: "India Wins series 2-1 against West Indies"

After doing disastrously bad at T20 World cup indian fans has a reason to cheer. India has won its Fifth consecutive series win after defeating WestIndies in the just concluded one day series under the leadership of Dhoni.

India started the series with a band when they scored 340 in the first ODI, thanks to Yuvraj for his brilliant century. WestIndies came terrifyingly close to chase down it but fell just 20 runs short of it giving india a 1-0 up in the series. West Indies came back strongly in second ODI, where Dhoni's heriocs coudnt win the game for india. With this win the series was hanging in balance at 1-1. Third ODI was shortened due to rain and india won it thru Dhoni who hit a six in the final over to seal a win for india and giving india a unassailable lead of 2-1. Final ODI was a damp squid and India won Fifth straight series on a trot.

Mahendra singh Dhoni was awarded the Man of the series award for his consistant performance througout the series.

India's Consolidated list of Five Series Wins:

YEAR	AGAINST	IN	MARGIN	MAN OF THE SERIES
2009	WestIndies	WestIndies	2-1	MS Dhoni
2009	NewZealand	NewZealand	3-1	--NA--
2009	Srilanka	Srilanka	4-1	Yuvraj Singh
2008	England	India	5-0	Yuvraj Singh
2008	Srilanka	Srilanka	3-2	MS Dhoni

As you refer the table above, 4 of the 5 series wins for india are away and one was against england during which the mumbai attacks happened. Dhoni and Yuvraj domindated the series and not to be forgetten that in the recently concluded series inspite of Dhoni being the Man of the series Yuvraj scored a brilliant century of the series from either side.