Chennai Super Kings defeated the Deccan Chargers by 7 wickets on May 27th 2008 in the IPL match held at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Thru this victory, Chennai Super Kings have joined with 3 other teams (Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils) to play in the semi-finals and dashed out the Mumbai Indians’ semi-finals dream.

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first. The opening was really wobbly as both the openers were dismissed for meager runs – Adam Gilchrist (5 runs) and Herschelle Gibbs (8 runs). Shahid Afridi was dismissed for 1 run. Venugopal Rao (46 runs) and Ravi Teja (40 runs) played a decent Innings which helped their team to post decent figures in the score board. At the end of 20 overs, the Deccan Chargers scored 147 runs for the fall of 8 wickets.

Chasing the modest total of 148 runs, the Chennai Super Kings started their Innings thru their openers Patel and Fleming who fell out for 20 and 14 runs respectively. The team’s skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a knock of 37 runs off 25 balls (4 boundaries and 1 sixer). Suresh Raina stood unbeaten for an excellent knock of 54 runs off 43 balls (5 boundaries and 2 sixers). In 19.2 overs the Chennai Super Kings reached their target score and won the match by 7 wickets. Suresh Raina was announced as the Man of the Match.

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Trix
Filed under: IPL Cricket