Chennai Super Kings after loosing to Mumbai Indians in their first game finally showed good all round performance against Royal Challengers Bangalore to beat them by record 92 runs to register their first win in IPL 2009.
There was a slight drizzle at Port Elizabeth but it cleared on time for the play to commence. Before the toss took place, the entire Bangalore team, along with MS Dhoni was present to witness Lalit Modi present the 'Orange Cap' to Rahul Dravid and the 'Purple Cap' to Anil Kumble. The Chennai captain MS Dhoni won the toss and he decided to bat first on a pitch, which was reported to be a reasonable batting surface. The Chennai team chose to play Balaji, Muralitharan and Albie Morkel while the Bangalore team included Kallis in their playing eleven in place of Jesse Ryder.
The Chennai innings started off with a mixture of boundaries and mistimed shots by Hayden and Patel. Hayden got the first six of the match putting away a full toss off Praveen Kumar. It was the fifth over of the match when Kallis was introduced to the attack. Hayden thrashed the bowler, hitting three boundaries and a six of his over.
While Patel kept rotating the strike, Matthew Hayden was firing away in his swashbuckling style reaching his fifty in just 22 balls. Hayden got lucky when he survived a close LBW shout off Anil Kumble but the 'Bulky Australian' assisted by Parthiv Patel, carried on and took Chennai to a score of 106 at the end of the 10th over.
The 'Strategy Break' came to the aid of the Bangalore team when the time-out resulted in two consecutive wickets. Patel was first to go when he missed an attempted slog sweep off Pietersen and the ball clipped the stumps. The very next ball resulted in the run-out of Matthew Hayden after an incorrect piece of calling by Suresh Raina. It seemed like Raina's lucky day, when a skier was put down Steyn much to the displeasure of Anil Kumble.
The Chennai captain MS Dhoni did not stay long and was dismissed by Praveen Kumar on 16. Raina held out to Virat Kohli giving Praveen his second wicket.
While Flintoff managed a couple of lusty blows in the final over, Steyn managed to dismiss Morkel off his last ball. At the end of 20 overs, Chennai managed to score 179 for the loss of five wickets after being 106/0 in the first 10 overs.
During the interval, Hayden was presented the 'Orange cap' for being the highest scorer in the tournament.
Without Jesse Ryder to open, Bangalore sent in the pinch hitter Praveen Kumar to open the innings with Uthappa. However, Praveen did not stay long and was bowled by MS Gony for a duck. Kallis came in at number 3 and was looking in great touch, dealing in boundaries. Uthappa gave him good company, as the duo piled on runs at a steady rate. Just when things were shaping up well for Bangalore, Kallis departed after being LBW to Morkel.
Disaster struck for the Bangalore team when the lost three quick wickets. Taylor was the first to go, caught and bowled to Flintoff. Then came the Sri Lankan maestro Muttiah Muralitharan, who picked up the Bangalore captain and Uthappa in his first over. At the end of ten overs, Bangalore could manage only 56 runs and had lost half their side.
Post break, Kohli and Bishnoi were out in quick succession. While Kohli got out to Joginder Sharma, Bishnoi also got out after giving Muralitharan his third wicket. Bangalore slipped further down when Vinay Kumar was run-out.
A helpless Dravid was the last man to go as he hit a Balaji delivery straight to the safe hands of Flintoff at square-leg. The Royal Challengers were all-out for a total of 87, losing the match to their South Indian rivals.
Interesting Facts:
Hayden's fifty was also the fastest fifty of IPL 2009.
Matthew Hayden scored 65 runs and took his tally to 109 runs to secure the orange cap.
Chennai posted 179/5, the highest total in IPL 2009 so far.
M.Muralitharan was declared Man of the Match for his superb bowling figure of 11/3 in his four overs.
Match Summary (Chennai Super Kings won by 92 Runs)
Chennai Super Kings – 179/5 in 20 Overs
M.Hayden- 65 P.Patel –30
P.Kumar– 4-0-37-2 K.Pietersen– 3-0-14-1
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 87/10 in 15.2 Overs
J.Kallis- 24 R.Uthappa –20
M.Muralitharan– 4-1-11-3 L.Balaji– 2.2-0-18-2
Next game of IPL will be played on 21st of April. There will be total two number of matches will be played. First between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders and then Mumbai Indians will take on Rajasthan Royals.
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