Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians – IPL 5 - Elimination Match - Chennai clobber an intimidating total on the board – Live Cricket Score and Update
Chennai Super Kings 187/5 (20/20 ov) – Mumbai won the toss and chose to field first
Wednesday, May 23: In the Indian Premier League elimination match, Chennai Super Kings after being put into bat by Mumbai Indians have managed to amass a massive total of 187 runs on the board for the loss of five wickets at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Before the start of play, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, indicating the intentions of his team said, “We want to take every game like a final from here because every game is important so we can't relax. Obviously it is a big game for both the teams and I'm sure the last game would have raised our confidence in terms of batting. Our batting is strong so we would like to chase on this track.”
The defending champions had a terrible start to their innings with two wickets down after having posted only a run on the board. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 (0) on the next ball.
However, Chennai exhibited tremendous resolve and composure as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 and S Badrinath led a rebuild phase by keeping the scoreboard ticking.
The two batsmen took the score to 95 runs before the partnership finally came to its demise on the wicket of Badrinath who perished after scoring an innings of 47 runs.
Hussey then fell one run short of a half century as he lost his wicket in the 15th over at a time when his side had amassed a total of 106 runs.
Nonetheless, this was not the end for Chennai as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJ-Bravo-c1379 kept their cool and steadily crawled to a target which was not imagined by anyone when Chennai began their innings.
Dhoni, after having a decent season, jabbed an unbeaten knock of 51 runs just when the doctor ordered, while Bravo who has had an impressive tournament smashed an innings of 33 runs.
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