Chennai Super Kings achieve victory over Pune warriors with 25 runs in the IPL season 4 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Monday.
Chennai Super Kings bat first and was stuttered to 142/6 with the opener Michael Hussey making a 48 for 61
And then came up with a good bowling and fielding restricting the Away team to 117 for 9 with skipper like
Yuvraj Singh(34) playing all alone for the defeated.
It was the third win for Super Kings in six matches and this moved them up the table with six points while the
Warriors slid on fourth place in five outings. The Warriors gave themselves a chance to win as Jerome Taylor and Alfonso Thomas struck decisive blows after Hussey and Murali Vijay had put on 64 runs for the first wicket.
The left-hander, who scored his only World Cup century here about a month back, just couldn’t find his magic touch and Chennai Super Kings reaped the harvest. Yuvi scored 34 off 43 balls as Pune Warriors fell 26 runs short of the 143-run target after having the upper hand for a major part of the match.
Yuvi survived a plumb leg-before decision, missed full-tosses, missed out on singles at a time when it seemed that the left-hander could run away with the game. Dhoni knew if his Team India lieutenant got going, there was no chance at all. But the canny skipper also understood that Yuvi was struggling in the Chennai humidity and he made sure that the boundaries were not given away.
The CSK fielders had a brilliant performance on the ground saving boundaries and made Pune fight for every run.Shadab Jakati pulled off at mid –off in the 19th over to bring an end to Yuvraj’s innings. Ashwin and Suraj Randiv too played well.
The Super Kings fielders displayed a refreshing change as they displayed a lot of commitment while throwing themselves about to save precious runs, so much so that the Warriors batsmen found the boundary line just twice in 10 overs.
Dhoni then came up with another master move, bringing on Bollinger for just one over and the left-arm seamer obliged by dismissing Manhas, caught behind.
Thereafter, the Warriors' chase lost whatever little momentum they had and the Super Kings delivered the death blow when Shadab Jakati dived to catch Yuvraj off Morkel, bowling the 19th over, to leave the Super Kings winners by a country mile.
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