CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
V/S ROYAL
CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Thursday April 12.
4:00 PM, M.A. Chidambaram Stadium Chennai
The IPL 2012 has
started from April 4,2012 and
will end on May 27, 2012. It
will be on for 54 days. The CSK & RCB match was against the two
southern giants [Chennai and Bangalore]. It was a very good match.
First Innings: - Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss
and elected to bat first. Gayle was on fire from the start. Mayank Aggarwal
also played a good hand of 45. Chris Gayle went to pavilion when he was on 65.
Kohli scored 56 but after his wicket no one came in double digits. They scored
a good score of 205-8. It was looking like Bangalore will win the game.
Second Inning: - Chennai Super
Kings got a good start because of Faf Du Plessis and Vijay. The first wicket
was of Murali Vijay. He scored 11 of 15 balls. Raina scored 23 of just 14
balls. Then came the ‘captain cool’ MS Dhoni. He played a very good innings of
41. On the other hand D Plessis scored good runs and was caught by Virat Kohli.
Then was the wicket of MS Dhoni. At the fall of Dhoni’s wicket CSK needed 42
from 12 balls. Virat Kohli was bowling
the 19th over and on strike was Albie Morkel. He scored 28 runs. His
runs were very valuable but lost his wicket on the second ball of the 20th
over. They needed 13 of 4 and Bravo was on strike but by mistake R Vinay Kumar
bowled a no-ball and Bravo did not miss the chance scored a boundary. They
needed 9 of 3 balls and bravo managed to hit six on the off side area. They
needed 3 of 3. Vinay bowled a dot ball and then they needed 3 of 2 balls. Bravo
rotated the strike and then they needed 2 of the last ball and Jadeja got a
boundary and CSK won the match by 5 wickets.
Man of the match.:- Faf Du Plessis for his remarkable innings of 71.
