Cricket: Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings – Second innings report – Part 2
The Indian Premier League match between the Pune Warriors and Chennai Super Kings headed towards the final 10 overs with neither side appearing to be in control. The Super Kings had Murali Vijay and
Subramanian Badrinath at the crease after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 had been dismissed in the fourth over of the match.
The second half of the match began with the first delivery giving more cause of excitement and drama than the entire first overs could manage altogether. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309 was convinced he had Badrinath caught behind before the umpire’s decision of ‘not out’
caused an uproar amongst the Pune Warriors players. Badrinath was fortunate to survive at the crease by the end of the over, while Pune Warriors’ skipper, Yuvraj Singh could not stop shaking his head in disbelief.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mithun-Manhas-c76414 took
the catch to halt the batsman’s innings on 31 runs.
Chennai danger-man, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 continued to bowl well restrict to the batting side to the odd single and restricting them to just three
runs in the 15th over. Yet, it was not enough to stop Subramanian Badrinath from reaching his half century in what was a sensible and well constructed innings.
While Badrinath focused on rotating the strike, Raina was more focused on adding runs to the board as he smashed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 for two huge sixes in the 18th over that helped relieve much of the pressure that had built up for the batting side. The two
boundary clearing shots meant that the Chennai Super Kings needed just eight runs from the last two overs of the match and put all the pressure on the Pune Warriors’ bowlers.
The batsman went a run a ball in the 19th over as they edged ever closer to the 142 run target. Badrinath ended the match in style when he flicked the ball away for a boundary off the third delivery of the final over to secure the win for Chennai
Super Kings.
The result meant that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364’s Pune Warriors had collapsed to their fifth successive defeat and left them in desperate need to find a winning formula if they wished to keep any hopes of winning the fourth season of the Indian Premier League alive.
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