IPL 2012

 

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 19^th 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 20^th 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.