Chennai Super Kings v Pune Warriors - IPL 5 - Kings humble http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 by 13 runs - Live Score and Update
Chennai Super Kings 164/5 (20/20 ov) v Pune Warriors 151/7 (20/20 ov) - Chennai Super Kings won by 13 runs
April 19: In their sixth game of the tournament, Chennai held nerve to clinch a clinical win by 13 runs against Pune in the 24th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season five at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
After managing to restrict Chennai on a nifty total of 164 runs in the absence of ace bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashok-Dinda-c1098, Pune needed a solid batting performance against the underperforming Chennai.
Nonetheless the side faltered on 151 as Chennai exhibited tremendous bowling and fielding to halt Pune from reaching the required tally of 165 runs to win the match.
The match held great importance for the Super Kings as being the defending champions; they have failed to pose a serious threat to the rest of the teams in the tournament this year as before this match they had registered two wins from five matches.
With this win, however, Chennai skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 has had pressure lifted off him, as he has been receiving criticism for his side’s poor show this year.
Speaking to newsmen after the match, Dhoni said, “The dew was an issue, the spinners weren't getting too much turn, glad the fielding was good, took some good catches. We have been playing here last five years so we don't worry about the heat too much.”
Meanwhile, Dhoni’s counterpart http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746 praised the effort by the Chennai skipper in the end to steer his home side as Dhoni played an unbeaten innings of 28 runs.
“MS batted well towards the end, we needed a big over to get on par but did not get. We will have a look at what went wrong after the game,” said the Pune skipper.
Meanwhile, coming out in pursuit of the required target, Pune had an unimpressive start to their innings as they lost both openers with only 26 runs on the board.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JD-Ryder-c1679 was disappointing as he could muster only nine runs before his demise, and later the rest of the batting line-up were just not up to speed as no one managed to pull off a big innings needed to reach the required target.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KMDN-Kulasekara-c1802 from Chennai was named as the Player of the Match for taking two wickets in his two overs.
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