2087dThe Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Raina, Vijay maul their way to massive win

Suresh Raina and M Vijay absolutely mauled the hapless-looking Wayamba attack to score 155 off 90 balls between them, 52 more than the whole Wayamba side managed

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

SK Raina
SK Raina
87(44) 6x4 - 6x6
Control %88%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 58 runs
  • 3x4 - 5x6
1 4 4 12 42 11 4 9
M Vijay
M Vijay
68(46) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 25 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
9 1 1 13 13 3 4 24

Best performances - Bowlers

R Ashwin
R Ashwin
O4
M0
R18
W4
Eco4.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
JA Morkel
O3
M0
R22
W3
Eco7.33
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

To sum up things, Raina thinks "In T20 cricket, anything can happen well," and his captain chips in with a "Well of course!" That brings an end to our coverage of today's action. Hope you enjoyed it - on behalf of my colleagues, this is Nitin Sundar signing off. Cheers!

MS Dhoni, all smiles as always. "Well of course, difficult ground to defend, so we needed over 180 atleast [boy, does he set the bar high!] and we managed that. Well of course, it is important to have a quick bowler [like Bollinger]. His pace really matters and he sets the pace.. Albie Morkel's spell was equally important, he has the knack of taking wickets. We have to win each and every game, we have to prepare well and execute plans.." Man, he slips into this banter very easily doesn't he!

Mubarak, the Wayamba captain: "We knew we had to play our best to compete with them. There were three-four big overs in the middle and it cost us the game. The wicket remained the same through the game. We lost too many wickets early on,.. when we start chasing 10 an over, it puts additional pressure. We owe it to ourselves and our supporters to make something of our remaining two games."

Suresh Raina is MoM. He repeats 'really well' three times.. "I was batting really well, hitting the ball really well, Vijay played really well." Make that four. "We executed plans really well."

Mohamad does not like the word Madrasi. "Please dont use the word madarasi instead of tamilan." Umm, I did not use it instead of Tamilan, I used it instead of Chennai (both refer to the same city you know) and besides it goes with Mauling!

Ankit wants to spice up the cricket. "I misread Shallika as Shakira wondering what is this queen of belly dancing doing on the cricket pitch.. :)" Nice try mate.

So there, Chennai surge up to join Warriors at the top of Group A, and these two sides have looked the part so far. Chennai have dominated two games, barely breaking into a sweat in both their wins. The IPL champs will take some beating, in this form. And to think, this despite the major problem involving Matthew Hayden's form at the top. Presentations coming up. Meanwhile, here is Sid Monga's report on the Madrasi mauling the Wayamba XIs received today.

17.1
W
Muralidaran to Karunanayake, OUT, Well, now we have seen everything.. only one Sri Lankan has been smiling today and his smile just got wider! Murali draws Shalika out of the crease in a manner that would have done the pied piper proud. Dhoni does the rest. Game over.

KPSP Karunanayake st †Dhoni b Muralidaran 25 (51m 31b 1x4 1x6) SR: 80.64

END OF OVER:
17 | 1 Run | Wayam: 103/9 (98 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.05, RRR: 32.66)

  • Chanaka Welegedara0 (3b)
  • Shalika Karunanayake25 (30b)
  • Doug Bollinger4-0-15-1
  • Ravichandran Ashwin4-0-18-4
16.6
0
Bollinger to Welegedara, no run, slower ball, beautifully bowled outside off, 118 kph and the No. 11's almighty hoick makes no contact.
16.5
0
Bollinger to Welegedara, no run, goes for the yorker and nearly cleans him up. Was just marginally wide of off stump, and the batsman was no where near it.. once again.
16.4
1
Bollinger to Karunanayake, 1 run, short again, but this one is on the leg stump line and he taps it down to square leg for one
16.3
0
Bollinger to Karunanayake, no run, another short ball, and Shalika moves away to the leg side looking for a cross-batted carve over covers... no contact.
16.2
0
Bollinger to Karunanayake, no run, bouncer wasted, he is not even close to getting close to the ball and just staggers away
  • Chennai play it like champions do

    While Chennai were steamrolling their opponents, there was a definite sense in the stadium that a small part of history was being witnessed

  • Wayamba fall by the wayside

    Wayamba's followed their flaccid bowling with batting that could most kindly be described as having a nice personality - bedfellows as strange as this do not a strong marriage make

  • Raina, Vijay maul their way to massive win

    Suresh Raina and M Vijay absolutely mauled the hapless-looking Wayamba attack to score 155 off 90 balls between them, 52 more than the whole Wayamba side managed

Wayamba 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1DPMD JayawardeneHGJM Kulatunga
2nd17DPMD JayawardeneJ Mubarak
3rd0DPMD JayawardeneMDKJ Perera
4th13KS LokuarachchiMDKJ Perera
5th0KS LokuarachchiKPSP Karunanayake
6th4KPSP KarunanayakeNLTC Perera
7th27KPSP KarunanayakeI Udana
8th14HMRKB HerathKPSP Karunanayake
9th26KPSP KarunanayakeBAW Mendis
10th1KPSP KarunanayakeUWMBCA Welegedara