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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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In yesterday’s IPL T20 match Deccan Chargers played against Mumbai Indians in SuperSport Park, Centurion.  Gilchrist, captain of Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first.

Rohit Sharma delighted with his bowling

Gilchrist and Gibbs opened the innings for Deccan Chargers. Gibbs failed once again to score runs and edged one to safe hands of Sachin. Suman came in at no.2 and scored 20(13) before edging one to keeper Shah. Gilchrist played well, nudging singles knowing the importance of his presence till the end, but got out to a full length delivery just before the strategic break. He scored 25 of 29 balls, unlike him. At the strategic break Deccan Chargers were 63/3. Smith lost his wicket trying to play big shots. Rohit Sharma batted well for his 38(36) but couldn’t hit big shots against the good blowing of Mumbai Indians. Harbhajan didn’t had a good day with the ball as he was hit out of the park 3 times in 2 overs. Good fielding and bowling helped Mumbai Indians to restrict Deccan Chargers to 145/6 in 20 Overs. Malinga, Kulkarni, Bravo, Raje and Jayasuriya all got a wicket each.

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It has been a forgetful tournament so far for Sharukh Khan and his team. Kolkata Knight Riders lost their 9th league match against Delhi Daredevils yesterday.

IPL 2009 – Match 31 – Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Delhi Daredevils – Full Scorecard

Kolkatha Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper McCullum won the toss and elected to bat first. They got a good start for the first time in the tournament as the openners put on 58Runs for the first wicket, their highest in this version of IPL. Captain McCullum got the start but couldn’t capitalize it and got out for 35(29 balls). Hodge came in at no.2 but could only help Delhi Daredevils. He struggled to get bat on ball and wasted deliveries. Van Wyk played brilliantly on one end scoring his 50 in just 32 deliveries. Hodge got out at crucial stage and Henriques came in to give first maiden over for the day to Amit Mishra. This is were Knight Riders lost their way, as the previous over yielded 15Runs inspite of a Wicket. Some good clean hits from Van Wyk and late flurry from Henriques helped Kolkata reach past 150 mark ending up at 154/3 in their 20 Overs. For Delhi Daredevils, Amit Mishra bowled well just giving away 18Runs in his 4overs including a maiden over, his 4th over and 14th of the match. Nehra blowed extremely well in the depth. Nannes was the odd man out missing out his 50 as he conceded 49Runs in his 4Overs.

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Indian Premier League Season 2 is heating up.

Chennai Super Kings registered their 4th win yesterday, 3rd in a row out of their 8 league matches so far, in an eventful match.

Eventful indeed, as we witnessed some copybook cricket shots by M Vijay, much expected unconventional shots by MS Dhoni, accurate bowling at the depth by RP Singh, dream opening bowling spell by Albie Morkel and Sudeep Tyagi, catches dropped in pairs, hurricane innings from Dwayne Smith capitalizing his drop chances to good effect, good slow bowling by Jakati to cover his fumble as he missed simple runout chance twice in same ball and Murli showing his experience chipping in with couple of wickets.
What more one can expect in this short form of cricket!!??

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