Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore – IPL 5 – Super Kings grab second win of the season - Live Cricket Scores and Update
RCB 205/8 (20/20 ov) v Chennai Super Kings 208/5 (20.0/20 ov) - Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
On Thursday, April 12, Chennai finally registered their second win in the ongoing fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets, at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
After suffering a bad start to the tournament, the defending champions finally played like their former selves and chased down a massive tally of 206 runs to win the game.
The mammoth run chase was spearheaded by the belligerent batting from Chennai opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864.
And while, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 ended the game with only one wicket, it was the former Sri Lankan spin-king Murali, who grabbed three wickets as RCB desperately tried to contain Chennai below the required run rate.
Chennai, however, were up to speed from the start as the openers gifting a stand of 56 runs, which was the beginning of the end for RCB.
With 128 runs on the board, Chennai had lost three of their batsmen that included http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 (23) and du Plessis (71). This was the time for RCB to make a comeback in the game, however, after getting off to a flyer, Chennai were certainly not going to ruin the match as the remaining batsmen took some responsibility and left the fielding side flabbergasted.
In the middle-order it was the under fire skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, who came in and delivered a captain’s knock as he smashed an innings of 41 runs, keeping the scoring rate in check.
Dhoni, showed signs of a resurgent batting form as he timed the shots beautifully and ripped apart the bowlers bits by bits.
Later in the innings, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JA-Morkel-c1613 belted knocks of 25 and 28 to help their side achieve victory.
du Plessis was named as the Player of the Match for his fiery batting performance.
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