IPL 47th Match: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians

[aussie1st]

Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians at Port Elizabeth

Mumbai Indians: 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Dwayne Bravo, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Chetanya Nanda, 9 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 10 Dhawal Kulkarni/Zaheer Khan, 11 Lasith Malinga.

Chennai Super Kings: 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 M Vijay, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 S Badrinath, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Albie Morkel, 7 Jacob Oram, 8 Sudeep Tyagi, 9 Shadab Jakati, 10 L Balaji, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan

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[naresh091]

I might prefer Bailey or Ntini over Oram.But Dhoni has said he wont make any changes with the overseas players played in the last game.Maybe he'll try some experiments,if we win this game.
Lets hope we win.Malinga is our only fear.If we overcome him,we'll cruise towards a win.
We can go for some 25-30 runs of his 4 overs without the loss of any wicket.

 

[surendar]

At the same time Mumbai team do have a huge pressure in winning this game and moving themselves forward to top of the table. Mind says Mumbai to win while my heart says Chennai to win. :confused:

 

[surendar]

This turned out to be a wonderful game in the end. Hayden stood as solid as rock making sure that win knocks the door of CSK. :happy Dhoni/Hayden's partnership with Hayden hammering the bowlers fetched a comfortable win for CSK.

This also means, Mumbai Indians are out of the tournament, isn't it? I pity them because they played well!

 

[Leggie]

We'll be back.

 

[Amiya]

What a innings from Hayden. He wasn't looking comfortable till the 13th over but after on he smacked all around. This also means Mumbai is out of IPL now.

 

[naresh091]

Yup Mumbai dint do a lot of mistakes to be handed this defeat,but they were just outplayed by a valiant knock by a Legend.
Great really.I was really afraid of how we will play Malinga in his last two overs at death.But we made it through easy,thanks to the useful contributions from Raina,Badri and Dhoni.
What Dhoni said in the Presentation ceremony is disheartening.
Parthiv has played 8 games,and still yet to make a good score,while Vijay has been given only 3 or 4 chances,and hes replaced this quick.And still Dhoni is saying Parthiv will be given couple more chances.This is really ridiculous.Talents are overlooked.But the only consolation is we are still winning despite blunders like this and bad fielding.

 

[surendar]

Fielding... oh dear! I switched off the tv after those three horrible mis-fieldings during first 6 overs. CSK had a very good control for the first three overs, then those 3 misfieldings gave the opponent to break that shackle.

We do make many mistakes like this, i.e basic fielding, selection of players but still.. somehow (75% because of Hayden), we are managing to win. Thats not a good sign since the whole team-work should be there to be champions. :upray

 

[Pranav]

Mumbai are out. Now I am a pure Delhi supporter.

Chennai played really well. Though their fielding was pathetic.

Malinga was sensational as usual.

 

[shravi]

Lol@Mumbai supporters. They were so confident after the first few matches that the IPL was their's.

 

[surendar]

Lol@Mumbai supporters. They were so confident after the first few matches that the IPL was their's.

There is no need to laugh I feel. Mumbai played well and they deserved to be in better position than the current position which the table shows.

Only thing which I hate in Mumbai team is, the mixing up of team composition which never settled down till now. : It was ridiculous idea to promote Bravo and Dumini to the opening slots. All these messes have costed them huge now. One can never deny that they gave their hearts out to be up in their level in both the seasons of IPL.

I expected CSK, RR, MI and DD to be in semis but there were many surprises.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

We'll be back.

Same here we will be back next year There is always next time

 

[Raj_Aryan]

MI is now gone,it seems that the most brand valued team (KKR),and then the second (MI),are at the bottom of points table...

 

[SaiSrini]

If Bangalore is also ruled out, the teams of the three stalwarts are out of the competititon which will be sad.

Great win for CSK. But when will we improve our fielding? It will hurt us in the semis or final for sure (those will be close games definitely going by IPL's trend). Anyways, Hayden has been the biggest solid rock for us.

 

[aussie1st]

Hayden is just so consistent, he just needs a 100 to top it off. CSK are relying on him a lot though, just have to hope he doesn't fail in the finals.