Allround Performance Keeps Chennai Super Kings On The Winning Track

04 May 2012 : Chennai Super Kings won by 10 runs.It was Chennai Super Kings who won the toss and choose to bat first.They made a competitive total of 160/6 in the limited 20 overs.The Deccan Chargers could only make up to 150/5 in 20 overs.The Chennai Super Kings got a good start with the man in form DuPlessis and Vijay.Duplessis scored 42 off 32 and Murali Vijay made 14 off 11 balls.Then Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni contributed 32 and 34 runs respectively to the total.Chennai Super Kings failed to make use of the good start by their openers,in the middle overs their runrate was not much consistent.Albie Morkel and Ravindra Jadeja failed to play big shots and got out for low scores.In the last over of CSK's innings,Dwayne Bravo played some great shots and made 12 in just 4 balls and that runs were crucial in their victory.In the other side the Deccan Chargers started off by loosing Parthiv Patel's wicket.And then Cameroon White and Shikhar Dhawan made a good partnership,at that stage the Chargers were in winning position.Dhawan got out unluckily when Cameroon White's shot hit the stumps near the bowler after passing Bravo's hands.The Chargers still had hope as their skipper Sangakkara and White were in crease.Suresh Raina took a marvellous catch in his own bowling to send Sangakkara to the dressing room.Cameroon White played extremely well, he scored 77 off 53 balls but it was not enough to take the Chargers to victory.The scores of both the teams along with important batting and bowling performances are given below :

Chennai Super Kings : 160/6 (20 overs)
Duplessis 42(35)  Suresh Raina 32(24)   Ms Dhoni 34(28)

Veer Pratap singh took 2 wickets.Reddy,Jhunjhunwala,Christian and Mishra took one each

Deccan Chargers : 150/5 (20 overs)

Cameroon White 77(53)  Shikhar Dhawan 36(29)  Daniel Christian 27(24)

Raina,Morkel and Hilfehaus took one wicket each.

Man of the match : Suresh Raina