MS Dhoni happy with his players in the Final
Chennai Super Kings’ captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820, has praised the efforts of his players in the final of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), against Royal Challengers Bangalore, at Chennai.
The home team clinched the title for the second consecutive time as they outclassed Bangalore in all departments of the game.
He specially admired the performance of his openers, who piled up 159 runs for the first wicket partnership and sealed the advantage for their team.
Dhoni said that his openers laid the platform for such an emphatic win and to play like this in a big game is quite commendable.
The Chennai skipper said, “Both Vijay and Hussey gave us a good start and that helped us to sustain the momentum. We didn’t want to get desperate to win, but the intent was there. They challenged the fielders and rotated the strike.”
Vijay was absolutely brilliant as he scored 95 runs off only 52 balls, in which he struck four boundaries and six massive hits out of the park. Cricket fans were expecting Bangalore’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CH-Gayle-c1221 to showcase such a performance in the final but Vijay surprised
everyone with his brutal stroke-play and emerged as a real star.
Dhoni was also very http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228, who took three cheap wickets to break the back of Bangalore’s batting, including the prized scalp of the destructive Gayle.
Chennai’s captain rates Ashwin very high and said that the youngster does not get fazed by any situation and he always wants to dominate the proceedings.
Dhoni admitted that his bowlers did not bowl too well in the later stages of the game but Bangalore could not take advantage of that because they had lost too many early wickets.
“Our bowling was good in the first phase of the innings, but we didn’t bowl too well thereafter. Ashwin has a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Griffith-c919 heart and he is not afraid to toss the ball up in the power-play when we have just two fielders in the deep. He had good support from other
bowlers who picked up wickets,” he added.
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