IPL8 – Chennai beats Bangalore and enters the finals, Dhoni does it again

#IPL8 #CSKvsRCB #MikeHussey #AshishNehra Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore at Ranchi to move ahead to the finals and their opponent now will be the Mumbai Indians – they will clash at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 22 May 2015.

Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl first and Ashish Nehra took three of the prize wickets of Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers and Dinesh Karthik to put RCB on the back foot. Hard hitting Chris Gayle hit Suresh Raina for two consecutive sixes and then gave a return catch to Raina to ensure that RCB does not get to a too big score.
It was a game more of holding ones nerves and there were dropped catches and misfielding on both side. The tension was evident from the facial expressions.
Finally the RCB could score 139 runs and it was left to CSK to score 140 to win and move on to the finals which should have been an easy task but proved difficult and dragged on to the last ball of the innings. Mike Hussey top scored with 56 runs and Dhoni added 26 runs.
Ashish Nehra was adjudged the Man of the Match.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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IPL8 – CSK shows its mettle, defends a modest total to leave RCB floundering

#IPL8 #CSKvsRCB #SureshRaina #Dhoni It was a hot afternoon with the temperature in the region of 40 degrees Celsius and Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat. But, his batsmen could not plunder the runs as Dhoni would have liked them to because of a strong bowling attack of RCB. Therefore, at the end of the day, it was a modest total of 148 runs that CSK had to defend.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 4 May 2015.

And, that is why CSK is held in awe by all teams of IPL - they can do wonders and can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. That is what they had to do and they did it with aplomb by defeating the RCB by 24 runs.
Of course, the turning point was, undoubtedly, the run out of Virat Kolhli and the sudden collapse of the RCB batsmen after Kohli left.
CSK bowlers Ashish Nehra (3/19 in four overs) and Dwayne Bravo (2/19 in 3.4 overs) wreaked havoc, especially in the death overs to bowl out RCB for 124 in 19.4 overs. The strength of CSK bowling can be understood from the fact that RCB lost seven wickets for 27 runs in only 5.5 overs.
Suresh Raina (52 runs) was the Man of the Match and, with this win, CSK regains the No 1 position on the points table.

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#IPL8 #SureshRaina #AshishNehra #CSKvsRCB #Bangalore It was another wonderful offering of T20 cricket on view at the Chinnasawmi Stadium in Bangalore when the Chennai Super Kings got the better of the Royal Challengers Bangalore by beating them by 27 runs. This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 23 April 2015.

Batting first, CSK posted a total of 181 runs with a huge contribution of Suresh Raina who belted 62 runs before holing out. Dwayne Smith and Faf du Plessis also contributed while captain M S Dhoni looked to be out of form. The aggressiveness he is known for in the death overs was missing. Among CSK batsmen, Brendon McCullum failed again as did Ravinder Jadeja.
However, with the never-say-die attitude one usually associates with CSK, they took to defending the apparently chaseable total. However, with Ashish Nehra in top form, RCB was denied the chance of tasting success at home ground from CSK. Nehra returned figures of 4 for 10 runs in his allotted 4 overs!! However, Suresh Raina was adjudged Man of the Match.
Captain Virat Kohli of RCB top scored with 54 and the whole team folded up for 154 runs – thus, CSK won by 27 runs.

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