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Good news for Chennai Super Kings fans! Yet another victory for Chennai Super Kings as they won the big match against Rajasthan Royals held in Kimberly, South Africa on 9th May 09.

IPL 2009 – Match 37 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

Naman Ojha bowled by Morkel

Shane Warne won the toss and elected to bat first on a slightly slow pitch. Ojha got out early for a duck when the score was just 1. Smith and Asnodkar played without taking any risks. They put on 53 runs for the second wicket in 44 balls. Asnodkar scored 26runs before getting lbw of the bowling of Muralidaran. Rajasthan Royal were 61/2 at strategic break. Smith played without showing any aggression to score runs quickly. When he tried, he lost his wicket stumped by MS Dhoni of the bowling of Muralidaran. Ravindra Jadeja scored runs quickly and scored 27runs in 19balls. Expectations were high when Yusuf Pathan came to bat but he failed and just scored 7 runs. Rajasthan Royals couldn’t step up their run rate and just managed 140/7 in 20 Overs. Super Kings bowled exceptionally well to restrict Rajasthan Royals. Fielding was good except for a drop chance.

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In today’s match, 36th Match of IPLT20 2009, Kings XI Punjab pulled a thriller to keep their hopes high to make it to the Semi finals.

IPL 2009 – Match 36 – Deccan Chargers Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

Kings XI Punjab choose to bowl first winning the toss. Deccan Chargers scored 168runs losing 5wickets. Symonds was the star with the bat, scoring 60Runs in just 36balls. Venugopal Rao scored 35(25). Lee played his first match of this IPL and bowled well for his 1/24 in 4overs. Sreesanth and Chawla got a wicket each.

Jayawardene scored quickly to keep Kings XI Punjab in contest

Kings XI Punjab chaced down 169 with 1 ball to spare, a thrilling end to the match. Kings XI Punjab started well with openers putting on 41 in just 4.3 overs. Both the batsman got out of the same over of Rohit Sharma, who is getting wickets at ease. Yuvraj and Sangakkara put on a partnership and scored at good rate. But both of them got out just like the openers in a span of 3 balls, just before strategic break. All of a sudded Deccan Chargers were back in the game. The score was 86/4. Jayawardene played really really well yet again and scored quick runs and got himself runout when the score was 149. He scored 43runs in 28balls at a strike rate of 153.57. At this stage Kings XI Punjab needed 20 runs in 13 balls. Chawla and Lee kept themselves cool and reached the target with a ball to spare.

Awaiting for the next game…. Clash of TITANS !!!

Delhi Daredevils registered their 6th win as they beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in yesterdays match.

Sachin fell short and was runout by Karthik

Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. They lost 2 wickets in the first over. Jayasuriya was replaced by Ronchi to open the innings but he couldn’t manage to score a run and got out needlessly, trying to take a single playing the ball straignt to Warner. Warner was quick to react and hit the stumps at the non-strikers end in a flash. Duminy, the in form batsman for Mumbai Indians was the next to go for a duck, caught by Wicketkeeper Murali Karthik of the bowling of Nannes. After the first over Mumbai Indian were 2/1. Sachin Tendulkar looked in good touch and was run out by Karthik. Shah was caught at mid-on trying to clear the boundary rope. Bravo and Nayar played with some responsibility and they put on 57 Runs for the 5th wicket. Both got out off concecutive deliveries and the tail couldn’t do much with the bat. Mumbai Indians just scored 116 runs in 20 overs, their lowest in all IPL games they played. Bravo was the only batsman who showed some intense scoring 35 of 30balls. Daredevils bowlers bowled well and they fielded well except for couple of drop catches. Bhatia was the pick of the bowlers taking 3 wickets just conceding 15 runs. Nannes and Nehra got 2 wickets each.

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Match No. 34, Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab in SuperSports park, Centurion. The clash between Kings started 45min after the end of low scoring match between Royals. Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first, a tricky decision considering the very previous match in the same venue. Chennai Super Kings won in all the previous three games these teams met.

IPL 2009 – Match 34 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

MS Dhoni - the Captain Cool

Wicket of the first ball of the innings yet again! Badrinath opened the innings with Mathew Hayden and played the first ball into the hand of the third man try to slice it for a six. Irfan Pathan, the bowler, couldn’t belive and was extremely delighted, so as his team members. The excitement didn’t lasted long as Suresh Raina, the next batsman joined in the middle with Hayden and they started the fire works. Raina was dropped at point when he was 14, tough chance though. They put on 57 runs in the powerplay. Sangakkara missed a simple stumping chance of Hayden, who stepped down the track trying to hit Goel over the boundary, as he failed to collect the ball. Rain interrupted the play with the scorecard reading 68/1 in 7.3 overs. Play resumed after about 100min and the overs were reduced to 18 due to delay. Raina was caught at deep midwicket of the bowling of Chawla and he scored quick 32 runs in 20balls. Captain Dhoni came in and started scoring straight away. Hayden hit some huge sixes and scored his 50 in 44 balls. Dhoni on the other end played some splendid shots and they put on 100 for the third wicket in just 47balls. Hayden was caught at long on after hitting 3 sixes of the over of Shreesanth. He scored 89 runs in 58 balls. Hayden is now way ahead of other orange cap contenders. Dhoni went on to score his second fifty in two matches and remained not out on 56 of just 27 balls. Chennai Super Kings scored 185/3 in 18 overs.

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Royal Challengers poor batting performance let them down once again as Rajasthan Royals won the low scoring match by 7 wickets with 5 overs to spare.

IPL 2009 – Match 33 – Royal Challengers Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

Amit Singh celebrating the dismissal of Jaffer

Shane Warne won the crucial toss and elected to field first. The pitch was damp due to showers earlier the day and it was expected to assist bowlers upfront. Rajasthan Royal bowlers bowled well and Royal Challengers lost wickets in regular intervals inspite for few drop catches. They could just manage 29 runs in the powerplay, losing 3 wickets. Jaffer was the first to go making just 8 runs in 9 balls, Kallis scored 10(14) including a six. Dravid got out for a duck gloving the ball outside leg to wicketkeeper Ojha. Ravindra Jadeja came to bowl and picked up Uthappa plumb infront with a straighter delivery. He picked up 2 more wickets ending his spell of 4 overs with 3/15. Amit bowled exceptionally well in the depth and took 4 wickets giving away just 19Runs. Royal Challengers just managed to get 105 runs losing all their wickets in 20 overs.

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