IPL-4 (25th April): Bowlers star in CSK’s victory over Pune

By Team Bellevision
Bellevision Media Network

Chennai, 25 April 2011: Albie Morkel took 3/29 and Ravichandran Ashwin along with Doug Bollinger shared four wickets between them, as the Chennai Super Kings comfortably beat Pune Warriors India by 25 runs in match 29 of IPL-4 at the M Chidambaram stadium on Monday. Earlier, Skipper Yuvraj Singh stood tall after the fall of Mithun Manhas as Pune Warriors India chased 143 for victory. Albie Morkel and Ravichandran Ashwin rattled the Pune Warriors picking up two wickets apiece.

 

Pune Warriors bowlers came back well during the second part of the Super Kings innings to restrict the defending champions to 142 for six despite a sensible half century from Michael Hussey. On a tricky pitch, Chennai openers Hussey (61, 48 balls, 5x4, 1x6) and Murali Vijay (31, 29 balls, 2x4, 1x6) added 64 runs for the opening wicket. After scoring 63 off the first nine overs without losing a wicket, the CSK managed only 79 of the next 11 losing six wickets in the process.

 

West Indian speedster Jerome Taylor was the most successful bowler grabbing three for 30 while Alfonso Thomas chipped in with a couple of wickets. Put into bat, CSK openers Vijay and Hussey started off on a confident note. Although they didn’t start tonking the bowlers from the outset, the duo found the gaps and the hittable deliveries were dispatched to the boundary. Hussey was the first one who opened his shoulders giving Nathan McCullum the charge hitting the offie over mid-off for a six. The Australian batsman got a couple of streaky boundaries off Murali Karthik.

 

 

 

His partner Vijay was lucky to survive a couple of run-outs. Although he hit a couple of fours and a straight six off Karthik, he wasn’t exactly his explosive self. The 50 came off only 43 deliveries. It was the 10th over of the innings where seamer Thomas struck twin blows when it looked as if the CSK openers were trying to bat the opposition out of the game.

 

Thomas dug one short and McCullum didn’t have any problems in gobbling up Vijay’s mistimed pull-shot. Suresh Raina’s first shot was another mistimed pull that fetched him a couple. Couple of deliveries later he moved towards the leg-stump trying to make room for a big hit only to find his stumps uprooted.

 

Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (26, 21 balls, 2x4, 1x6) announced his arrival with a six over the sight screen off his counterpart Yuvraj Singh. Hussey brought up his half-century off 42 balls with a drive through extra cover. The bowler was Thomas. Dhoni who was dealing in singles after that mighty six got a couple of boundaries in the 17th over bowled by Rahul Sharma before he was stumped.

 

First it was an inside edge that went for a boundary before the Indian captain launched into Sharma hitting straight back for a one bounce four. In his bid to up the ante, he tried another mighty heave but the leg-break turned enough to beat his bat as Uthappa did the needful behind the stumps. Hussey was out when he tried to loft Jerome Taylor over long-on but Manish Pandey judged it nicely at the boundary line.

 

Match Summary

Indian Premier League 2011 Chennai Super Kings vs Pune Warriors, 29th match MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, April 25, 2011

Match Information Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) & Russell Tiffin (Zim) Third Umpire: Sanjay Hazare (Ind) Match Referee: Andy Pycroft (Zim) Toss: Pune Warriors (Elected to field) Match Status: Chennai Super Kings won by 25 runs

Batting: Pune Warriors Innings

Batsmen Pune Warriors (117/9 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Jesse Ryder b R Ashwin 15 11 1 1 136.36 Mohnish Mishra b A Morkel 9 9 1 0 100.00 Manish Pandey b A Morkel 12 9 2 0 133.33 Robin Uthappa (wk) b R Ashwin 0 4 0 0 0.00 Yuvraj Singh (c) c S Jakati b A Morkel 34 43 2 0 79.07 Mithun Manhas c M Dhoni b D Bollinger 20 23 0 1 86.96 Nathan McCullum c S Jakati b D Bollinger 15 16 0 0 93.75 Rahul Sharma run out (M Dhoni) 1 1 0 0 100.00 Jerome Taylor run out ((sub)A Mukund) 2 1 0 0 200.00 Murali Kartik not out 1 2 0 0 50.00 Alfonso Thomas not out 1 2 0 0 50.00 Extras: b - 0, w - 2, nb - 2, lb - 3 7   Total:(117 for 9 in 20 overs) 117 Run Rate: 5.85

Fall Of Wickets

1/19 (Mohnish Mishra, 2.4 ov.), 2/27 (Jesse Ryder, 3.6 ov.), 3/40 (Manish Pandey, 4.5 ov.), 4/40 (Robin Uthappa, 5.3 ov.), 5/78 (Mithun Manhas, 12.5 ov.), 6/109 (Yuvraj Singh, 18.3 ov.), 7/110 (Rahul Sharma, 18.5 ov.), 8/114 (Jerome Taylor, 19.1 ov.), 9/114 (Nathan McCullum, 19.2 ov.)

Bowling: Chennai Super Kings

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Albie Morkel 4 0 29 3 2 1 7.2 Doug Bollinger 4 0 20 2 0 1 5.0 Ravichandran Ashwin 4 1 19 2 0 0 4.8 Suraj Randiv 4 0 23 0 0 0 5.8 Suresh Raina 2 0 11 0 0 0 5.5 Shadab Jakati 2 0 12 0 0 0 6.0

Batting: Chennai Super Kings Innings

Batsmen Chennai Super Kings (142/6 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Murali Vijay c N McCullum b A Thomas 31 29 2 1 106.90 Michael Hussey c M Pandey b J Taylor 61 48 6 1 127.08 Suresh Raina b A Thomas 2 4 0 0 50.00 MS Dhoni (c) (wk) st R Uthappa b R Sharma 26 21 2 1 123.81 Albie Morkel c J Ryder b J Taylor 0 4 0 0 0.00 Subramaniam Badrinath not out 11 7 0 1 157.14 Srikkanth Anirudha c R Uthappa b J Taylor 7 7 0 0 100.00 Ravichandran Ashwin             Doug Bollinger             Shadab Jakati             Suraj Randiv             Extras: b - 1, w - 3, nb - 0, lb - 0 4   Total:(142 for 6 in 20 overs) 142 Run Rate: 7.10

Fall Of Wickets

1/64 (Murali Vijay, 9.2 ov.), 2/66 (Suresh Raina, 9.6 ov.), 3/118 (MS Dhoni, 16.4 ov.), 4/122 (Michael Hussey, 17.2 ov.), 5/123 (Albie Morkel, 17.4 ov.), 6/142 (Srikkanth Anirudha, 19.6 ov.)

Bowling: Pune Warriors

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Nathan McCullum 2 0 12 0 0 0 6.0 Jerome Taylor 4 0 29 3 0 2 7.2 Alfonso Thomas 4 0 28 2 0 1 7.0 Murali Kartik 4 0 29 0 0 0 7.2 Rahul Sharma 4 0 27 1 0 0 6.8 Yuvraj Singh 2 0 14 0 0 0 7.0