IPL CRICKET 2010 Chennai Super Kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

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Chennai super Kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

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TN Batsman Hits 39-Ball 78 As CSK End Losing Streal with 5-Wicket Win Over RCB

Chennai:The India brigade of chennai super Kings has been under fire for a week now. It's those same set of boys who gave coach  Stephen Fleming a reason to smile on the ever of his birthday.
            On a balmy Wednesday evening at the chepauk, CSK almost made a mess of it from a winning position before Suresh Raina (44 no) held his nerve to snatch a five-wicket win against Royal Challengers Banglore which kept the Men in Yello alive in IPL 3.
           If Raina was the man who did it in the end, it was M. Vijay (78 off 39 balls) who had set it up with some supreme hitting. Vijay, who has faced a lot of flak, looked beautifully balanced at the crease and timed the ball to perfection to bring the asking rate down at a fast clip. Matthew Hayden (12) threw it away after the two had put on 61 runs for the first wicket, but Vijay looked merciless. The bowlers just didn't know how to keep him quiet and just when it seemed that he would do it on his own, Vijay committed hara-kiri.
          The ever dependable Dhone, too, struggled, as RCB started clawing back into the game with some tight bowling from Anil Kumble and Jacques Kallis. When Dhoni,Albie Morkel and S. Badrinath got out in quick succession, the Chepauk crowd was stunned into silence n apprehension of another heart breaker.
        But Raina came up, with a couple of crucial boundaries in the 19th over to seal the deal. Earlier, it seemed to be running away from CSK as Kallis and Virat Kohli and settled in beautifully, but Shadab Jakati (2-17) brought them back into the game. The left-arm spinner, a favourite of Dhone, kept altering the length, firing a few into the blockhole and was rewarded with the wickets of Robin Uthappa and Kohli.
       The spinner, in fact, managed to carve out a maiden over, a rarity in T20 cricket. As Kohli and Jacques Kallis looked to cut lose, Jakati removed the Delhi boy in the first ball of the 17th over as he tried for a heave off a full-toss. Kallis, tried to hit out, but got the ball straight back to the bowler, and got run out in the process.
           Even Kevin Pietersen and Cameron White couldn't manage a run off that over, as Jakati turned the tempo of the game to a certain degree.
         With Murali and Jakati bowling, there weren't too many bad balls on offer, something that the CSK pacemen Thilan Thushara, Manpreet Gony and Albie Morkel provided in abundance. But on Wednesday it didn't prove too costly.