Banglore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings - Match 44 - Kingsmead, Durban
Banglore Royal Challengers clinched a final over victory against the Chennai Super Kings and hence their hopes for a semi-final berth alive. Chasing 130 for victory Banglore started off poorly loosing Kallis(0), Dravid(8) and Uthappa(6) early. But last match's hero Ross Taylor played a completely contrating innings compared to the previous one and helped Banglore to a victory. Taylor anchored the innings and in partnership with Virat Kohli stabilized the banglore innings. Taylor made 46 from 50 balls and Kohli contributed 38 from 35 balls. The match took an intersting turn when wickets started tumbling after the fall of Kohli. A six hit by Praveen of the first ball of penultimate over from Balaji helped ease tension, but the pendulum swung again when Taylor got out the first ball of the final over, with 5 runs to win of 5 balls, Royals held their nerve and reached home with 2 balls to spare.
Earlier in the day, Chennai batsman succumed to the accurate bowling of Kumble and Kallis. Except for Mathew Hayden who scored 60 from 38 balls, none of the Chennai bastmen stayed long enough in the crease. In what can be said as the worst batting performance of the season by Chennai, they managed to put up a below par total of 129loosing all their wickets with two balls to go.
Toss
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and chose to bat first
Brief Scores
Chennai Super Kings - 129 all out in 19.4 overs(M Hayden - 60, MS Dhoni - 18, A Kumble - 2/12, J Kallis - 2/18)
Banglore Royal Challengers - 132/8 in 19.4 overs(R Taylor - 46, V Kohli - 38, J Oram - 2/12, A Morkel - 2/13)
Result
Banglore Royal Challengers won the match by 2 wickets.
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