Chennai Super Kings choked for runs by Kolkata Knight Riders – Indian Premier League news
CSK: 114/4 – 20 overs
Defending champions Chennai Super Kings struggled to get the ball away in a crucial Indian Premier League match against high flying Kolkata Knight Riders taking place at the famous Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Batting first the team led by India’s all conquering captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820 failed to take much advantage of the opportunity and managed to score only 114 for the loss of 4 wickets.
After conceding more than 20 runs in the last over of the Kochi innings in Kolkata’s last match, Australian pace legend http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brett-Lee-c48419 made a roaring comeback with astonishing figures of 0/8 in 4 overs. He made the ball talk and gave no opportunity to the Super
Kings batsmen to score quickly against him.
The slowness of the wicket coupled with the lack of bounce was the undoing of the Chennai batsmen. However, the astonishing thing was that they did not lose wickets in a clutter at any time of the innings. Their total looks even more mediocre with the fact
that they lost only 4 wickets in their innings.
Michael Hussey and his opening partner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Murali-Vijay-c78035 were kept silent by the bowlers. Hussey scored only 15 runs while Vijay’s poor tournament continued as the right-hander perished for 5.
Suresh Raina was also sent packing cheaply. The Indian batting sensation scored 4 runs before Yusuf Pathan had his Indian teammate dismissed.
In 11 overs, the Super Kings had stuttered to 49/3 and Kolkata were well and truly on top. The situation improved a wee bit for the visitors as they added 65 runs in the last 9 overs of the innings.
The impetus was provided by an attacking partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Subramaniam-Badrinath-c91587 and Albie Morkel.
Badrinath scored 54 off 41 balls. His innings was studded with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Morkel also used the long handle affectively at the end of the innings to score 30 with the help of 3 fours. Besides the outstanding effort of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders were
indebted to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 and Pathan who both bowled cheaply.
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