2489dThe Report by Siddarth Ravindran

Super Kings batting might trumps Watson ton

Chennai Super Kings have more match-turning batsmen than any other side in the tournament, and that was on display yet again as they hunted down 186

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

SR Watson
SR Watson
101(61) 6x4 - 6x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 26 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
7 14 19 0 5 8 25 23
MEK Hussey
88(51) 13x4 - 1x6
Control %78%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 22 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
4 9 23 7 29 3 3 10

Best performances - Bowlers

JP Faulkner
JP Faulkner
O4
M0
R20
W3
Eco5
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
R Ashwin
R Ashwin
O4
M0
R20
W2
Eco5
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Rajasthan Royals , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.25, Interval 21.25-21.45, Second Session 21.45-23.05

Match days

22 April 2013 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Match Referee

Points

Chennai Super Kings 2, Rajasthan Royals 0

Scorer: Binoy George | Commentator: Abhishek Purohit

That does it for Monday night. See you tomorrow. Hats off to the Huss

Hussey is the Man of the Match. Hussey: "Good batting condtions, best batting pitch we have had here this season. Needed a bit of luck along the way. Suresh was in the zone today, was finding the boundary at will."

Dhoni: "When opposition scores 185, 90% it will go into the last over. It got close but Bravo did well. Hussey gave the start, he and Raina gave us the platform. Always important to win at home as you know the conditions better. Was a good wicket, groundsmen are trying their best and we are trying to adapt."

Rahul Dravid: "Very pleased [with 185]. One of the finest T20 innings from Watto, in humid conditions. Early on, we missed it a bit [with the ball]. You felt they always had the team. Every time we got a wicket, someone came in and got a six."

Dwayne Bravo praises Hussey's work ethic, saying he still keeps going despite being done with international cricket

Shane Watson: "Few things went my way with the bat but you'd take that back for a win. We knew that was a lot of runs on that wicket but we knew they have a long batting order and we would have to bowl well, but we could not execute well. [My bowling] has been something I have been missing last three months, could not do it today. Hopefully it will come out better."

19.5
2
Watson to Bravo, 2 runs, Bravo seals it with a ball to spare, clips this low full toss off the pad wide of deep midwicket and Chennai have chased 185 after Watson's hundred
19.4
2
Watson to Bravo, 2 runs, full toss outside off turned to wide long on and they take the second quite comfortably
19.3
6
Watson to Bravo, SIX, Bravo gets lots of bat under it this time, making room to leg and sends this full one soaring over sweeper cover
19.2
0
Watson to Bravo, no run, Watson gets this very low and full, Bravo cannot get enough bat under it, hits it back to the bowler, non-striker was way out of his ground, but Watson was staring at the batsman
19.1
1
Watson to Morris, 1 run, low full toss on middle, hit down to long on

Sundaresh: "Royals need a Mishy to win from here..."

Watson will bowl the last over

END OF OVER:
19 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | CSK: 175/5 (11 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 9.21, RRR: 11.00)

  • Dwayne Bravo5 (5b)
  • James Faulkner4-0-20-3
  • Kevon Cooper4-0-49-0
18.6
W
Faulkner to Dhoni, OUT, Dhoni goes for the six, swipes over midwicket, but Binny has made ground to his right from long on, and jumped to take this over his head, they check replays for the no-ball, they zoom in and zoom out, Faulkner is fine

MS Dhoni c Binny b Faulkner 21 (37m 16b 1x4 0x6) SR: 131.25

CSK 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st22MEK HusseyM Vijay
2nd90MEK HusseySK Raina
3rd42MEK HusseyMS Dhoni
4th0MS DhoniRA Jadeja
5th21MS DhoniDJ Bravo
6th11DJ BravoCH Morris