Chennai on a Winning Spree

Chennai and Jaipur both playing their 10^th match against each other, 37^th match of the tournament was started Yesterday at 8 o clock. Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat first. Rajasthan opened their innings with Smith and Ojha. Smith starts the innings by getting an inside edge to the fine leg for a single, Ojha tried to settle down and swings the bat to get off the mark but Morkel gets his scalp for a duck in the very first over of the match. Ojha bold for duck. Then comes Asnodkar replacing Ojha and clears the fence for four, score 5 for 1. Later at the start of ninth over score was 47 for 1, the wicket was pretty slow, and Shane Warne said that his team is not so good in chasing , hence as he won the toss elected to bat first, in the ninth over Asnodkar tries to sweep Muralitharan and misses it, found leg before wicket, plumb. Jadeja was the next man in place of Asnodkar, score 54 for 2. Later, at the strategic break, scores was 61/2 at 10 overs, Rajasthan going a bit slow, but had wickets in hand. In the 13th over, smith tried to slog but missed it completely, goes for a single, but was unable to complete it, Dhoni dislodges the bails. In the next over, Jadeja hits it all around the park, showing some intent on the game and hits a massive 17 runs in Jakati’s over, score squashes to 92 from 74, a massive over for Rajasthan. Later in the 15th over, Balaji takes of the pace of the ball, Jadeja ties to slick to the fence but finds Raina in the middle, decision was taken by the third umpire. Later the dangerous Pathan comes to the crease, defenses himself for first couple of balls, and later tries to sweep the ball but finds Oram on the boundary. Later comes Carseldine and starts off hitting a ball to the fence. At the end of 20 overs Rajasthan hit a decent score of 140 which is quite competitive on this pitch.

Chennai start their innings with Hayden and mural Vijay, in the third over Trivedi strikes, Vijay

dances all around the crease for a fiery yorker by Trivedi and finds the legs, plumb. Vijay was watching at his but, signaling that he hit it with bat and not with his leg. Raina enter the creases replacing Vijay, hits the ball all around the park. Later in the Amit Singh’s over tries to hit a fuller ball, hits it the wrong way and gets caught by Carseldine. Score reads37 for 2. Badrinath enters the crease, Warne bowls at him a beauty of a ball, Warne getting good amount of spin from the pitch, while Badrinath is looking lost. The strategic break, score is 67 for 2, the match looks pretty much even, Rajasthan where 61 for two and Chennai are 67 for two, Chennai has the edge, and Hayden is the key here. After the strategic break, Hayden stays till the 17 over, hitting the ball out of the park, sometimes. In the 17th over, Warne bowling to Hayden, Hayden hits it to mid wicket, and losses his wicket with toe shy of his 50. Oram replaces Hayden. Score 126 for three. In the 18th over, Singh is being slapped to the boundary, while the two batsmen running for two, hits the bowler in middle and team physio was called to attend him, match was stopped for a short while, while he was medicated. After the break, Badrinath hits it over the top of the bowler, for a four, Badrinath who started slowly, finally gets his 50 and in the nineteenth over , they need to get 2 runs as the score was 140 for three, the match finishes in the 19th over, Chennai winning with 7 wickets in hand.

Cric republic review : Rajasthan set a too lesser target, Warne who thought chasing was not his game should think again about setting target, Chennai is back to the top of the table, proved their critics wrong.

Man of the match: Badrinath for his 59, which helped Chennai reaching the top of the table.