CHENNAI SUPERKINGS

Indian Premier League Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings 2007/08 season Played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, on 28 April 2008 - day/night .
Today we saw Dhoni’s real potential as he guided Chennai Super Kings to a narrow win over Bangalore by 13 runs going unbeaten in the IPL to four matches. Winning the toss and elected to bat first Chennai Found themself struggling in the inning . Till 15 overs Chennai manage to scored only 102 for 3 and it was looking like that they will only be able to score a total 140 only. But it was Dhoni and Hussey who both made 76 runs in last 5 overs,especially Dhoni who struck a blistering 65 runs knock taking Chennai to 178 for 5.
In reply Bangalore batsmen looked like attacking Chennai bowlers and Chennai bowling attack too was struggling as Bangalore scored 102 for 2 in 11 overs but Chennai’s medium-pace attack changed the whole game putting Bangalore batsmen in big trouble and crushed their innings for just 165 runs in 19.3 overs. Player of the match was awarded to MS Dhoni for his captain knock which not only saved his team for losing but keeping his team at top of the table.
So Final Scorecard:
Chennai Super Kings 178 for 5 (Dhoni 65, Hussey 47, Zaheer 3-38)
Bangalore Royal Challengers 165 (Taylor 53, Jaffer 50, Gony 3-34)
Result Chennai Super Kings won by 13 runs
Player of the match MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings)
Detailed Scorecard can be found Here
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Mike Hussey cracked the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket history as Chennai Super Kings

pulled off a comfortable 33-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League match here today.

Hussey's blistering unbeaten 116 off just 54 balls steered Chennai Super Kings to an imposing 240 for five on a perfect batting strip at the PCA stadium.

The Chennai outfit then restricted the home team to 207 for four to record a win in their opening match which turned out to be a high scoring contest under lights.

It was a virtual carnage at the PCA ground as Hussey plundered runs at will to notch up the second century in the tournament in as many days after Brendon McCullum's 158 in the opening match in Bangalore last night.

Electing to bat, the Chennai team took full advantage of a batting track and short boundaries with sixes and fours raining on a hapless Yuvraj Singh-led home team.

Suresh Raina (32), S Badrinath (31) and Matthew Hayden (25) were the other notable scorers for Chennai Super Kings.

The home team started off well and kept themselves in the hunt till the midway stage of the innings but the dismissal of James Hopes (71) brought Chennai back in the game.

Kumara Sangakkara (54), Karan Goel (24) and captain Yuvraj Singh (23) were the other batsmen who chipped in with some runs for Kings XI.

The highlight of the innings was the explosive strokeplay by Hussey, who hit as many as 10 sixes and seven boundaries to record an amazing strike rate of 211.11. The likes of Brett Lee, S Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan and James Hopes could do nothing to stop the run deluge while the two spinners Piyush Chawla and Karan Goel were little more than cannon fodder.

In fact, Chawla's only over cost 19 runs forcing Yuvraj to take him out of the attack.

However, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest paid player in the landmark auction, could manage just two runs before being trapped leg before by Hopes.

But his team-mates made amends for his cheap dismissal with some lusty hitting which helped the team put on a mammoth total.

Faced with a stiff asking rate, Kings XI got off to a decent start with Goel and Hopes putting on 56 runs in the first five overs.

After Goel's dismissal, Hopes and the experienced Kumar Sangakkara kept up the tempo with some big hits but the run rate slowed down a bit after spin wizard Muthiah Muralitharan was introduced into the attack.

Muralithan's experience came handy as he used a lot of variations and gave away just 33 runs in his quota of four overs.

With the required run rate climbing alarmingly after every over, Simon Katich made a valiant effort in the fag end but it was not enough to carry the team to the victory target.

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Mike Hussey blasted the fastest hundred in Twenty20 history as the Chennai Super Kings rattled up an imposing 240 for five in their first Indian Premier League match against Kings XI Punjab here today.

It was a virtual carnage at the PCA ground as Hussey plundered 116 off 54 balls to record the second century in the tournament in as many days after Brendon McCullum's 158 in the opening match in Bangalore last night.

Electing to bat, the Chennai team took full advantage of a perfect batting strip and short boundaries with sixes and fours raining on a hapless Yuvraj Singh-led home team.

Suresh Raina (32), S Badrinath (31) and Matthew Hayden (25) were the other notable scorers for Chennai Super Kings.

The highlight of the innings was the explosive strokeplay by Hussey, who hit as many as 10 sixes and seven boundaries to record an amazing strike rate of 211.11.

The likes of Brett Lee, S Sreesanth, Irfan Pathan and James Hopes could do nothing to stop the run deluge while the two spinners Piyush Chawla and Karan Goel were little more than cannon fodder.

In fact, Chawla's only over cost 19 runs forcing Yuvraj to take him out of the attack.

However, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest paid player in the landmark auction, could manage just two runs before being trapped leg before by Hopes.

But his team-mates made amends for his cheap dismissal with some lusty hitting which helped the team put on a mammoth total.

Tags : Chennai Superkings, Indian Premier Leauge, ipl 20 20, Mike Hussey, T20 century

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Chennai Super Kings skipper M S Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first against Kings XI Punjab in a Indian Premier League Twenty20 encounter at PCA stadium at Mohali today.

Teams:

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (C), Matthew Hayden, Jacob Oram, Mike Hussey, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Palani Amarnath, Muttiah Muralitharan, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Goni.

Kings XI Punjab: Karan Goel, James Hopes, Kumar Sangakkara, Yuvraj Singh (C), Simon Katich, Pankaj Dharmani, Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Piyush Chawla, Wilkin Mota, S Sreesanth.

Tags: IPL,ipl 20 20,Chennai Superkings,Indian Premier Leauge,Match Result,

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On a day of intense bidding at the Indian Premier League player auction at the Hilton Towers in Mumbai, the Chennai Super Kings landed the most prized catch of them all – Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The Super Kings paid US$1.5 million, the highest bid of the auction and believe he is worth every cent paid! "… for us, a player like that is priceless. He can create ripples with his game, and we can get our team to play around him," VB Chandrasekhar, Cricket Manager for the Chennai Super Kings said.

The absence of an icon player – who, by rule, would have to earn 15 per cent more than the highest-priced player on the team – worked in Chennai’s favour.

Apart from Dhoni, Chennai also procured the services of Sri Lankan spin-wizard Muttiah Muralitharan, Australians opening bat Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey as well as Kiwis Stephen Fleming and all-rounder Jacob Oram. Two South Africans Albie Morkel and Makhaya Ntini comprise the international component of the Super Kings squad.

Wicket Keeper Batsman, Parthiv Patel who has been in scorching form lately and Joginder Sharma (famed for his last over in the ICC T20 Worldcup finals) and Suresh Raina comprise the Indians picked up in the first round of IPL auctions.

Dhoni’s presence and charismatic leadership of one of the strongest squads in the eight member league, is expected to attract a massive following in cricket mad Chennai. The city looks forward to seeing Chepauk set ablaze by the Super Kings.

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Lakshmipathy Balaji, who has been sidelined from cricket for nearly a year and a half with a stress fracture of the back, has been signed on by the Chennai Super Kings. The lanky swing bowler has featured in recent TNCA first division matches, bowling short spells.

Chennai Super Kings chief selector VB Chandrasekhar said, while announcing Balaji’s inclusion, "we have pitchforked him in our team as an additional bowler. He has been in action after recovery from injury in the TNCA's first division matches this season."

"Balaji has been effective in two spells of ten overs, though he has not been tried on the trot. He is surely going to be a lethal weapon in our scheme of things in the Twenty 20 IPL matches," he said.

Balaji was last in action during the 2006 Irani Trophy match, and the Challenger series that followed. His last game for India came in 2005, during the Indian Oil Cup in Sri Lanka.

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Kepler Wessels has transcended boundaries all of his life for the sake of cricket, and his next destination is the city of Chennai, where he has been appointed the coach of the Chennai Super Kings.

Born in South Africa, Wessels grew up in the apartheid era, when the Proteas were banned from international cricket. He moved to Australia and settled there, representing Queensland in the domestic Sheffield Shield competition. He graduated to play for Australia a few years later, and cracked a typically gritty century on his test debut against England. He played an important role in the Australian top order during the early eighties, but after a disappointing series against New Zealand, he quit and moved back to South Africa to play domestic cricket for Orange Free State. He then became the first test captain of South Africa in the post-apartheid era, and led his team diligently and intelligently for a couple of years before finally hanging up his boots from international cricket, once and for all. He also played county cricket for Sussex.

He next took to coaching, and became a hugely successful coach with Eastern Province. He also ran a host of coaching clinics for youngsters all around South Africa. Wessels then went to England and coached Northamptonshire for a couple of seasons, where he again met with resounding success.

“We wanted somebody who would keep the focus on cricket, be a good task master, and help us win the tournament,” said Chennai Super Kings Cricket Manager, V B Chandrasekhar. Wessels is widely acknowledged in the cricketing circles as a man who lives and breathes cricket, who at the same time, enjoys spending time away from it in his various pastimes like martial arts. He is known to be a good man-manager, and he has the experience of playing all around the globe and managing players from different cultures. He is also known to bring his gritty demeanour, which helped him succeed as a cricketer, into his coaching, while being an easily approachable person.

Makhaya Ntini, and Albie Morkel are the two South Africans who will be playing for the Chennai Super Kings, and they will be more than happy to have Wessels as their coach. Ntini who has always spoken highly of Wessels, will have the privilege of teaming up with Wessels and work towards the team’s success.

“This tournament is going to change the face of cricket worldwide,” Wessels said from Chittagong, Bangladesh on hearing about his appointment. “Every team is strong and you have to manage the process quite well because not all the players are available all of the time. And you can only play four overseas players at once,” he added, extremely excited about his new assignment.

Wessels gets the opportunity to coach one of the strongest teams in the IPL line-up with a winning captain in Dhoni and stars like Hayden and Muralitharan in the mix. So Kepler’s cricketing journey continues to cross new barriers, as Chennai prepares to welcome the man they hope will to coach them to glory!

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