Chennai Super Kings batsman Michael Hussey plays a shot during the IPL Twenty20 cricket final against Royal Challengers Bangalore at The MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on May 28, 2011.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Hussey stars as Chennai wins IPL
Updated May 29, 2011 08:16:00 The clinical Chennai Super Kings clinched their second Indian Premier League title in a row with a 58-run thrashing of Royal Challengers Bangalore in a lop-sided final.
Opener Murali Vijay cracked 95 runs off just 52 balls to help the defending champions pile up 5 for 205 before Ravichandran Ashwin removed Bangalore's openers early, ensuring a fine win for the hosts at a packed Chidambaram Stadium.
League-topper Bangalore, which was seeking its maiden IPL title, folded up at 8 for 147 off 20 overs.
It was Chennai's eighth win on the trot at home this season, underlining its dominance in home conditions.
The home team owed its win to Vijay whose record 159-run stand for the first wicket with Australian Michael Hussey (63) set the platform for a winning total after captain MS Dhoni elected to bat first.
Their stand surpassed the 155-run partnership between Adam Gilchrist and Venkatsai Laxman against Mumbai in the inaugural edition of the IPL in 2008.
"I was concentrating on just converting my start today, as it hasn't always happened this season," said Vijay, named man of the match.
"This (Chennai) is a special unit to be part of and to retain the title feels really great."
Bangalore's chase was derailed early with off-spinner Ashwin (3 for 16) getting rid of the dangerous Chris Gayle for a duck in the very first over.
Gayle, who still finished as the highest run-getter with 608 runs from 12 innings, offered an outside edge which was snapped up by Dhoni behind the wickets.
Gayle's dismissal triggered a collapse with Bangalore losing their next six wickets inside 11 overs to be reduced to 6 for 70, a situation from which they could never really recover.
Saurabh Tiwary offered some resistance with an unbeaten 42 but the other Bangalore batsmen simply caved in under pressure.
"It would have been a much better game if we could have put up a bowling performance like on Friday (against Mumbai) but it was not to be," Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori said.
"I think 160-170 would have been chaseable but their openers took the game away from us."
Vijay, pointed out as the weak link in the Chennai line-up after an indifferent run with the bat in the tournament, decided to make amends at the big stage, unleashing six sixes and four fours in his blazing knock.
Hussey also impressed, hitting three sixes and as many boundaries in his 45-ball innings before holing out to Abhimanyu Mithun near the boundary ropes off left-arm spinner Syed Mohammad.
Vijay, who seemed to struggle in hot and humid conditions during the later part of his innings, missed out on a well-deserved century when he offered a simple catch to Vettori off paceman Sreenath Aravind.
Aravind struck again off the very next ball to remove Dhoni, caught off a full toss by Virat Kohli after making 22 which included two sixes in one over by Gayle.
Gayle also picked up two wickets in two balls, sending back Albie Morkel and Suresh Raina in the 20th over with his wily off-breaks.
- AFP
Tags: sport, cricket, india First posted May 29, 2011 07:30:00Friday, May 20, 2011
Clinical Chennai beats Kochi
Posted May 19, 2011 06:07:00 Wriddhiman Saha scored a responsible 46 not out to set up an 11-run win for Chennai Super Kings against Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League overnight.
Saha cracked three sixes and a four in his 33-ball knock as Chennai posted a competitive 5 for 152 before restricting Kochi to 5 for 141 on a slow track at the Chidambaram Stadium.
The victory, Chennai's seventh in a row at home, moved Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side to the top of the points table with nine wins from 13 outings.
IPL debutants Kochi bowed out of the tournament after going down to its eighth defeat from 14 games in the Twenty20 competition.
Brad Hodge top-scored with an unbeaten 51 off 42 balls to keep Kochi in the hunt but lacked support from the other batsmen.
Chennai did not get the start it would have wanted after electing to bat, losing three quick wickets inside nine overs against some fine bowling and catching by paceman Rudra Pratap Singh.
After shattering the off-stump of opener Murali Vijay with a stinging yorker, Singh pulled off a stunning catch of Subramaniam Badrinath by diving to his right and picking the ball inches off the ground.
Australian Mike Hussey, whose clean catch by Parthiv Patel off an attempted paddle sweep was turned down by umpire Rudi Koertzen, lifted the innings briefly with a 37-ball 32.
Saha, a surprise selection in India's one-day and Twenty20 squad for the upcoming tour of West Indies, provided the late impetus to take the total past the 150-run mark.
- AFP
Tags: sport, cricket, indiaWednesday, April 27, 2011
Hussey stars in Chennai victory
Posted April 26, 2011 06:02:00
Michael Hussey hit a half-century and Albie Morkel bagged three wickets to help Chennai Super Kings post a 25-run win over Pune Warriors in their Indian Premier League match.
Michael Hussey hit a half-century and Albie Morkel bagged three wickets to help Chennai Super Kings post a 25-run win over Pune Warriors in their Indian Premier League match.
Australian Hussey made a 48-ball 61 and South African paceman Morkel took 3 for 29 as Chennai bowled and fielded impressively to restrict Pune to 9 for 117 after scoring 6 for 142 for its third win in six matches of the Twenty20 tournament.
Pune could never recover after being reduced to 4 for 40 in the opening six overs, with off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Morkel taking two wickets apiece.
Australian paceman Doug Bollinger finished with 2 for 20.
Skipper Yuvraj Singh top-scored with 34 for Pune, who suffered their third defeat in five matches.
His 43-ball knock ended when Shadab Jakati held a superb diving catch in the covers off Morkel in the penultimate over.
Mithun Manhas was the other main scorer for Pune with 20.
Hussey earlier hit one six and six fours in his half-century to help Chennai reach a competitive total despite impressive bowling efforts from Pune pacemen Jerome Taylor (3 for 30) and Alfonso Thomas (2 for 29).
Put in to bat, Chennai made a solid start when Murali Vijay (31) and Hussey put on 64 for the opening wicket before Pune struck back with two quick wickets.
South African Thomas had Vijay caught by New Zealander Nathan McCullum at mid-wicket and then bowled Suresh Raina for two runs in the same over.
Hussey steadied the innings with a 52-run stand for the third wicket with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (26) before West Indies paceman Taylor, playing his first IPL match, took three of the last four wickets.
Taylor struck in his third over when he removed Hussey, who fell to a well-judged catch at long-on boundary by Manish Pandey, before dismissing Morkel in the same over.
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