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Batting first chennai set a target of 182. despite lossing both openers early, chennai middle order batsmen played very sensible cricket. S. Badrinath and M.S. Dhoni put on 91 runs in 64 balls for the fourth wicket,badrinath hit sixes with remarkable ease  and made 64 in 47 balls

On IPL Points table chennai Super Kings level with the Rajasthan Royals at the top of the points table, while Punjab remain well placed in third despite the loss.

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Chennai Super Kings won the toss and invited Delhi Daredevils to bat first in their return leg of the Indian Premier League tie. Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan (59) put on a record 121 for the third wicket and the Super Kings did well to restrict the Devils to below 200.

Chennai then pulled off a fantastic run chase, led by Stephen Fleming’s 44 off 28 balls and S Vidyut (40 off 23), opening partnership of 62 runs, MS Dhoni (33) and Albie Morkel (30) contributed in middle overs
With 15 needed in last over facing Shoaib mallik Manpreet ghony lashed a six and four in first 2 balls.
Delhi missed all rounder Rajat Bhatia, lack of fifth bowler proved very costly to Delhi

Delhi Dare devils Innings:

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Deccan Chargers’ stand- in captain Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to bowl against Chennai Super Kings. RP and new boy Viajy Kumar gave a perfect start to Hyderabad. Vijay is impresive in his first IPL match and removed Parthiv Patel and Srikkanth Anirudh, son of former India captain Kris Srikkanth. He would have got one more if Sanjay Bangar hanged to tough catch in first slip

Rohit Sharma and Herschelle Gibbs made up for them with two outstanding catches as Stephen Fleming (14) and S Badrinath’s (0). Raina again failed to convert his good start into big innnings, while MS Dhoni was removed by Pragyan Oja. Albie Morkel and Manpreet Gony fired in last overs and set a modest target. Chennai’s top order again failed. Hayden and Hussey’s departure seriously damaged there prospects

Deccn chasing a modest total, GIlchrist led the charge by scoring 54 from 36 balls. Gibbs smashed a six and four before being coaught and bowled by Gony. gilli got perfect support from Styris and was especially on ntini. Rohit sharma slammed a 17 ball 23 and become top scorrer in DLF IPL. Afridi ended the game with his 6 ball cameo of 20 ( 2 4’s and 2 6’s)

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Delhi Daredevils, chasing 170, romped home by eight wickets and an over to spare to clinch a crucial win .Virender Sehwag (71) and Gautam Gambhir (50) 115-run partnership to set up the win for Delhi.

Viru and Gambhir took only 4.5 overs to reach 50 on the board and reached 100 in the ninth over with Sehwag also completing his half-century off 24 deliveries.

Chennai had earlier made 169-6 after captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had won the toss and elected to bat. S. Vidyut’s entertaining 37-ball 54 and Albie Morkel 28 off just 16 ball helped settign a modest target.

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Video Highlights of Chennai Super Kings Innings

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Mumbai Indians won the toss and chose to field. Chennai super kings piled up a challenging total of 208 for 5, thanks to a 104-run stand between Matthew Hayden and Suresh Raina. Hayden, in particular, was merciless and plundered 81 runs in just 46 balls. Suresh Rainaon the other end made a quick fire 53 of 37 balls, whic included 3 sixes and 3 fours.

208 looks like a chasable score on ground full of dew, Chennai bowlers struggled to grip the ball. A late assault from Abhishek Nayar and Harbhajan Singh bought Mumbai Indians close to victory. With 9 required off the last over, abhishek trashed first 2 balls to fours, a single on third ball which was declared a no ball proved costly to Mumbai Indians, that single bought Ashish Nehra on strike. Nehra missed the free hit and could only score a single in next ball. Abhishek Nayar top scored with 45 runs of 20 balls, which included 6 fours and a six..

Video Highlights of Chennai Innings

Video Highlights of Mumbai Innings

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Chennai Super Kings innings and the furious knock of Hussey

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James Hopes’ 32-ball 71 couldn’t help Kings X1

MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. Batting first Chennai Super Kings scored a huge total of 240/5 thanks to Hussey’s unbeaten 116,Hussey scored the fastest century in 20-20 in just 50 balls. Husset did not loose his cool even wickets are falling in other end. Suresh Raina(32 in 13 balls) and badrinath(31 in 14 balls) came in handy to Super Kings. Dhoni disappointed fans by scoring just 1 run in 3 balls. Bret Lee had a excellent spell, while sreeshanth was smashed for 35 runs in his 3 overs

240 is always near impossible target to chase, but Kings X1 Punjab fought well, Kings X1 punjab got a flying start with there opener James Hopes scoreing 71 runs in 33 balls with 10 fours and 3 sixers, Yuvraj Singh scored quick fire 23 runs in 13 balls while Sangakkara scored half century in 29 balls. Hopes and Sangakkara but both fell at crucial junctures which hampered Punjab chances.

Chennai got a perfect start and with Ntini and Morkel joining the squad the bowling department may became storonger

Chennai Super Kings 240 for 5 (Hussey 116*, Raina 32, Badrinath 31*) beat Kings XI Punjab 207 for 4 (Hopes 71, Sangakkara 54) by 33 runs

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