Chennai bowlers set up a 24 run Victory over Mumbai
For a change Chennai Super King bowlers bowled well to contain Mumbai Indians. In the previous match in the same venue even after scoring 246, Chennai was about to lose the match thanks to some spineless bowling. But they got their act together today to restrict Mumbai Indians to less than 164.
Earlier Chennai were of to a slow start and lost M Vijay early to Harbhajan Singh in fourth over of the match, the pitch had bounce and was little slower. Suresh Raina tried to accelerate but holed out trying a pull a Bravo short ball. Finally Hayden started stroking in the company of Dhoni and the two increased the run rate to around 9 in over before both falling in the same over of Kieron Adrian Pollard in the 14 th Over. At the end of 14th over score read 119/4 with both Michael Hussey and Badrinath on nought. Both struggled to get the boundaries and it was some innovative reverse cuts and sweeps from Badrinath in the last 2 overs ensured chennai finishes with 164 on board. Chennai and everyone felt they are atleast 20 runs short from the start they had.
The second innings started with Sudeep Tyagi getting a nice away movement in the very first ball, on the other end Doug Bollinger wasnt as economical today, everytime Tyagi or Bollinger pitched it up, both Sachin and Shikar Dhawan were ready to take them to cleaners. But the Chennai Fast bowlers were much more disciplined and used the short ball to good use and preventing the Mumbai Indians from getting a flying start. Though Mumbai did not lose any wickets, their required run rate was always hovering aroung 8.5, before Sachin started cramping up and started struggling a lot.
After a short break to hydrate the very first ball of Thusara’s over consumed the wicket of Dhawan who was little early on the cut and ended up dragging the ball on to his wicket. And 2 overs later Sachin departed retired sick and the scores read 62/1 after 8.6 overs. From then it was a familiar story of late nineties Indian teams, and the Mumbai Indians fell like a deck of cards. Ambati Rayudu tried to step out against a clever Suresh Raina who shortened the length to get his man stumped.
Bravo tried to clear Tyagi over long off but instead gave a long skier for Thusara who completed a superb catch falling backwards. Then it was turn of another big hiiter Saurabh Tiwary who could get going tried to heave Shadab jakati over Mathew Hayden in the inner circle, but instead gave him a dolly. Pollard was next to go producing the catch of the match by Murali Vijay who avoided collission with Thusara to complete a neat catch. From then it was no turning back, visibly tired Sachin returned to join Harbhajan after 8th wicket, but wasnt able to do much with the Require rate howering around 15 runs per over.
For Chennai the spinners Ashwin ,Tyagi, Raina and Shadab Jakati bowled tight. Thusara wasn’t giving anything away but the wet ball in the end ensure he bowled two beamers, and had to be removed from bowling his last 3 balls. Funnily Doug Bollinger had the worst economy rate on a day when all other bowlers bowled well.
Scores
Chennai Super Kings innings (20 overs maximum) R B 4s 6s SR
M Vijay b Harbhajan Singh 14 17 2 0 82.35
ML Hayden c Sathish b Pollard 35 31 2 1 112.90
SK Raina c Dhawan b Bravo 23 18 2 1 127.77
MS Dhoni*† c & b Pollard 31 18 4 0 172.22
MEK Hussey not out 14 15 0 0 93.33
S Badrinath not out 30 22 4 0 136.36
Extras (b 1, lb 1, w 15, nb 1) 18
Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) 165 (8.25 runs per over)
Did not bat R Ashwin, SB Jakati, DE Bollinger, S Tyagi, T Thushara
Fall of wickets1-27 (Vijay, 3.6 ov), 2-69 (Raina, 8.5 ov), 3-119 (Dhoni, 13.5 ov), 4-119 (Hayden, 13.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
R McLaren 3 0 25 0 8.33 (1w)
Harbhajan Singh 4 0 23 1 5.75 (1nb, 1w)
SL Malinga 4 0 36 0 9.00 (2w)
AN Ahmed 2 0 26 0 13.00 (2w)
DJ Bravo 2 0 21 1 10.50 (1w)
KA Pollard 4 0 27 2 6.75
R Sathish 1 0 5 0 5.00
Mumbai Indians innings (target: 166 runs from 20 overs) R B 4s 6s SR
S Dhawan b Thushara 16 18 2 0 88.88
SR Tendulkar* c Vijay b Thushara 45 35 6 0 128.57
SS Tiwary c Hayden b Jakati 14 18 1 0 77.77
AT Rayudu† st †Dhoni b Raina 3 4 0 0 75.00
DJ Bravo c Thushara b Tyagi 2 3 0 0 66.66
KA Pollard c Vijay b Ashwin 5 6 0 0 83.33
R Sathish run out (Badrinath/†Dhoni) 4 5 0 0 80.00
R McLaren lbw b Ashwin 1 3 0 0 33.33
Harbhajan Singh b Bollinger 33 23 2 3 143.47
AN Ahmed not out 4 7 0 0 57.14
Extras (lb 5, w 7, nb 2) 14
Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 141 (7.05 runs per over)
Did not bat SL Malinga
Fall of wickets1-46 (Dhawan, 6.1 ov), 1-62* (Tendulkar, retired not out, 8.6 ov), 2-66 (Rayudu, 9.5 ov), 3-69 (Bravo, 10.3 ov), 4-82 (Tiwary, 11.6 ov), 5-86 (Pollard, 12.6 ov), 6-89 (Sathish, 13.4 ov), 7-89 (McLaren, 14.2 ov), 8-105 (Tendulkar, 16.3 ov), 9-141 (Harbhajan Singh, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
S Tyagi 3 0 20 1 6.66 (1w)
DE Bollinger 4 0 39 1 9.75 (1w)
R Ashwin 4 0 22 2 5.50 (2w)
T Thushara 2.3 0 16 2 6.40 (2nb, 1w)
SB Jakati 4 0 27 1 6.75 (1w)
SK Raina 2.3 0 12 1 4.80 (1w)
Match details
Toss Chennai Super Kings, who chose to bat
Points Chennai Super Kings 2, Mumbai Indians 0
Player of the match SK Raina (Chennai Super Kings)
Umpires S Asnani and DJ Harper (Australia)
TV umpire K Hariharan
Match referee J Srinath
Reserve umpire J Madanagopal
