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S Badrinath smashed a brilliant unbeaten 59 and shared a crucial 89-run partnership with Matthew Hayden (48) to fashion Chennai Super Kings’ impressive seven-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League match.Chennai not only recorded their fifth in a row but also beat the defending champions for the second time in the second edition of the event to remain atop the points table.

Chasing 141 to win, last year’s finalists, overhauled the target with 10 balls to spare.Earlier, riding on a disciplined bowling attack Chennai had restricted Rajasthan to a modest 140 for seven.The slow nature of the wicket at the De Beers Diamond Oval made the contest between the ball and the bat interesting and set up an exciting finish.Hayden and Badrinath batted intelligently as stroke-making was quite difficult on the 22-yard-strip here.

Badrinath supported Hayden well after losing two early wickets as the duo knit together 89-runs for the third wicket.The Tamil Nadu batsman hit Shane Harwood for one six and three fours in the 16th over to took the pressure off Hayden, who batted with determination from the start.Hayden departed when he danced down to the wicket on one off rival skipper Shane Warne in the 17th over but was foxed by the big turn and stumper Naman Ojha uprooted his stumps.

Dhoni made two smart moves then - he brought in L Balaji from the other end, and let Jakati continue despite that over. Balaji, helped by a superb diving-in-front catch by Raina at point, accounted for Jadeja, and Jakati got Yusuf who went for a repeat of the six in the next over. Again this dismissal was made possible by smart work from Jacob Oram at the long-on boundary.

Dhoni went back to rotating his bowlers, the fielders stayed sharp, and Rajasthan struggled to get going again. Dhoni himself made two stumpings. Warne hit 21 off 11 deliveries to give Rajasthan something to bowl to. As far as the battle of captains goes, they were probably locked, but Dhoni was leading the better side on the night.

Video Source: DVD
Host: Zshare
Chapters: 20

Toss

1st Inning: Rajasthan Royals
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
part 7
part 8
part 9
part 10
part 11
part 12
part 13
part 14
part 15
part 16
part 17
part 18
part 19
part 20

Alternate 1st Innings:
part 1
part 2

2nd Inning: Chennai Super Kings
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
part 7
part 8
part 9
part 10
part 11
part 12
part 13
part 14
part 15
part 16
part 17
part 18
part 19

Alternate 1st Innings:
part 1
part 2

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