Doug Bollinger terms Chennai Super Kings’ win over Pune Warriors as platform for knockout stage
The left-arm medium pacer from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 on Wednesday.
Bollinger, who was given the Man of the Match award for his bowling figures of 3 for 21 from 4 overs, said that the victory against Pune has laid a good platform for the side to reach the knockout stage of the tournament.
“It's a couple of good wins. We jut want to get consistency and get really good starts. We have nine games (actually only 7) which is a really good platform to get into top four and then top two,” said Bollinger while talking to media reporters
after the match.
Bollinger’s three wickets included two wickets in three balls as he removed the Pune openers Jesse Ryder and Mohnish Mishra on the first and third ball of the fourth over. His third victim was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Marsh-c1974 whose top edge was taken by Ravichandran
Ashwin at deep square leg.
The Australian pacer also hailed Subramaniam Badrinath’s unbeaten half-century.
“Badri has been batting fantastically,” said the bowler. “He's really grabbed his chances up the order. Am really happy with him, with the way he's going about his game. He's jut doing everything so simple and sticking to his strengths.
He's doing a great job. He got another sixty tonight and he's been a very, very vital part of our team.”
It was Badrinath’s second fifty in three games. His 44-ball 63 was laced with 6 boundaries and 2 sixes.
Bollinger was also happy with the wicket and wished to wrap it up and take it to his backyard. He said that the wicket turned a bit but remained consistent throughout the game.
The 29-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-South-Wales-c823 pacer also praised the contribution of the rest of the bowlers in Chennai’s victory. He said that the bowlers have been bowling with a lot of confidence to restrict the opposition batting line-ups to an average
total of 141.
Bollinger also confirmed that Albie Morkel, who missed the game due to a strained bicep, will be back in the side for the next game against Deccan Chargers on Sunday, May 1, 2011.
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