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IPL 2015: Chennai Super Kings beat Rajasthan Royals to seal a spot almost match
Chennai: Brendon McCullum hit and Quickfire fifty before Ravindra Jadeja offers great wave of 4-11 as Chennai Super Kings avenged their defeat to Rajasthan Royals win 12-term to secure its place in almost play-offs of the Indian Premier League here on Sunday.
With this win Chennai jumped to the top of the table with 16 points from 12 games, while Rajasthan will continue to occupy the third place with 14 points from 13 games.
But Chennai rode on just fine performance of spin bowling Jadeja and dispatch some wonderful land to restrict Rajasthan to 145 for nine.
Chasing the modest target, Rajasthan innings fell apart just after the beginning of a constant.
Ajinkya Rahane (23) and Shane Watson (28) shared 37 runs for the early opening before the visitors lost the plot.
Rahane top to win on the perimeter Sharma (3/25) short delivery run to Dwayne Bravo at deep square leg in the sixth over in front of more than team leader Stephen Smith later and tossed by Jadeja.
The turning point came in the game in the form of Chapter Watson off Jadedja. Bravo pulled off a brilliant one-handed catch at long off, which was destined to go over the ropes to send the home crowd into a frenzy at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.
Jadeja picked up his third wicket when he refused to Karun Nair (10), who looped directly to Ravichandran Ashwin at short fine leg in the 12th over.
Jadeja was again in the thick of things when Deepak Hooda hit a full toss straight to Suresh Raina after a long wait on the delivery process in the first 15 off the over.
Samson (26 of 17), James Faulkner (16 of 13) and Chris Morris (16 not out off 10) played good hands, but it was not enough to take Rajasthan home and Bravo (2/43) peel two wickets at the end to ensure victory Chennai on Last match their homeland.
Earlier chose to bat on familiar circumstances, Chennai did not have the best of starts where he lost in the first two wickets in fourth place on the scoreboard with a read-only (15).
It was Dwayne Smith (6) was the first to leave when he was holed out in the middle of the day before diving off James Faulkner (1/31) Ankit Sharma bowling in the third over.
In the next over, the costume Chennai suffered another blow in the form of Reina, who managed to hit the length delivery off Maurice Faulkner in the middle of the game.
After that, McCollum and FAF du Plesis (29 off the ship settled with the position of 101 for the third wicket term.
Initially McCollum Du Plesis play cautiously and in accordance with the maturity of the ball.
McCollum opened his arms in the sixth by smashing Praveen Tambe for two huge sixes in his opening speech on.
After a lull lasted four amounts, McCulllum again and even hit two of four consecutive in the second Faulkner opened more.
McCollum continued in the vein his aggressive and whacked Rajat Bhatia for four and six in 14 to take Chennai forward.
Du Plesis, on the other hand, played a secondary role before taking up his administration by Watson in the 17th over.
McCollum followed suit over the next but not before scoring a well-deserved fifty. McCullum was caught by Sharma at long leg off Morris in the 18th position went to Kiwi breathes great.
McCullum scored his runs off just 61 balls with the help of seven four and four sixes.
Chennai have been dealt another blow in the next ball when he was holed Pawan Negi (7 of 13) in the covers by Stephen Smith.
After that, the commander of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (13 not out) and Dwayne Bravo (15 not out) stitched 28-term partnership for the sixth-wicket to help Chennai go past the 150 run-mark.
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