CSK vs KKR Round 2 IPL 3: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Chennai Super Kings performed like Stars

CSK vs KKR: Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders match resulted in Chennai on the winning side. Chennai put on a never before IPL performance, while Kolkata Knight Riders suffered one more serious blow. Kokata Knight Riders in clutches of severe humiliation

Some of the teams have failed terribly in the IPL like the Kings XI Punjab and Kokata Knight Riders. If Kings XI Punjab failed in IPL 3, the Kolkata Knight Riders failed in three outings successively. When Shah Rukh Khan told the performance was better than last time, he tweeted, "Supporters of KKR, we can say goodbye to IPL now. Better than last year is not good enough. Just disappointed, can't make any promises for future either, have lost the right."


Some of the team owners have been led to utter humiliation and financial loss after having purchased the teams for hundreds or thousands of crores. The team administration and management seem to have tried so many things in their armory to get the team back to form but some teams do not seem to be any winning.

Kolkata Knight Riders innings


The Kolkata Knight Riders started better until Chris Gayle lost his wicket. Then the Chennai Super Kings took total control until some of the middle order batsmen consolidated with a few boundaries and sixes in the final overs. The team score was a no threatening 139 for 8 with which the Chennai Super Kings fancied their Semi Final chances.


It was not only the poor performance of Kolkata Knight Riders but it was the superior bowling of Doug Bollinger (15 for 2) and Ravichandran Ashwin (16 for 3) that reduced the Kolkata Knight Riders to such a measly total. Ravichandran Ashwin was adjudged Man of the Match for his match winning performance.


Chennai Super Kings innings

The Chennai Super Kings looked like getting back to their losing ways when Hayden was dismissed and the Kolkata Knight Riders had gone euphoric for a win. Nothing went on as desired by the Kolkata Knight Riders as Suresh Raina ensured that the Chennai Super Kings sailed to an aggressive win to top the Net Run Rate.


The Chennai Super Kings scoring at such frenetic pace was absolutely incredible. They scored 143 in just 13.3 overs which helped them take the second spot in the rankings only to be behind the superior Mumbai Indians. 62 runs off 78 runs of Suresh Raina's score came through boundaries and sixes. Murali Vijay played a supporting role scoring a 50 off 40 balls.


He rotated the strike and gave the winning shot to his senior. This makes him a player that adopts to situations and knows how to play in each situation.


What Chennai Super Kings take away from this game?\


The Chennai Super Kings take away a few things ahead of the Semi Finals. They seem to have perfectly peaked at the right time which something Dhoni does very often. He has the ability to lead from the front and pull the team to victory at the right time from nowhere. We witnessed the opposite of this trend until the arrival of Sourav Ganguly as the Indian Captain.


Dhoni further evolutionized this concept having been a youth icon. It is important for Chennai and Chennai Super Kings that the local lads are performing so well. This will have a huge say in the selection. For all those who patiently supported Chennai Super Kings for so long just like Krishnamachari Shrikanth, this win has become a sigh of relief. Thanks to Dhoni, who showed strong character in getting the team back together.


The T20 being an unpredictable format will lead to any results but Mahendra Singh Dhoni being the master of the game will do his best to take it as far as he can. For the first time in the tournament, the team looked like a real team of classy and talented players. The Chennai Super Kings is such a youthful team which has been playing like a team consisting of retired Test players.


Dhoni is likely to cash in on the euphoria set by the Chennai Super Kings's emphatic win over the Kolkata Knight Riders!

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CSK vs DC: Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers in Nagpur: What's gone wrong with CSK again?

The Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers IPL 3 match ended with the Deccan Chargers winning quite comfortably. Chennai Super Kings still irk fans by their average performance and lack of team spirit



The IPL 3 has not had a single team that could win consistently like the Australian Team in One Day Internationals and Test Matches. Except for Mumbai Indians, there seem to be no convincing winners. Almost every other team is fighting to secure the four berths. Some have failed drastically like Kings XI Punjab but last minutes heroics will not rewrite destiny in favor of them.

It is interesting to see that Sachin Tendulkar led the team better than his Australian Counterparts. Those Legendary Captains and Players won less matches than Sachin Tendulkar. What worked in favor of Sachin Tendulkar? What not in favor of those Aussie Legends like Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist? The answer to both the questions is the sheer unpredictability of the format which led the Pakistan Team to a surprising World Cup Win!

When the Mumbai Indians were beaten recently, it showed that in this unpredictable game, any team could win and lose. Dhoni has a few winning knacks in his armory but the Chennai Super Kings must understand that that is not all that is enough. The openers, middle order and everyone has been failing and the burden falls on Dhoni and Raina over and over again.

Except Murali Vijay other Chennai lads or members of the team have not performed well. Murali Vijay seems to have a certain charm about himself. When he secures himself permanently in the Indian Team, he is sure to attract a lot of Female fans from Chennai with some marriage applications too.

We simply have to hope that the Chennai Super Kings will make it to the Semis (whether or not there is a chance from now or at least through Net Run Rate) winning the next few matches!

 
 

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CSK vs RR Round 2 IPL 3: Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: CSK posted 246 past their earlier 240 in IPL 1

Chennai Super Kings getting better as a team. Got the better off their rivals Rajasthan Royals the first time in three years. Fielding and Bowling need to improve


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The Chennai Super Kings innings

Murali Vijay has played a fantastic innings. In today's T20 powered innings, what Sanath Jayasuriya played a decade back is possible to more batsmen. But then, these batsmen are not devoid of their class. Murali vijay may well be on his way to becoming a Test, One day and an important T20 batsman. With his two previous match winning knocks, Murali Vijay made himself available for the Twenty20 World Cup 2010.

Entire Chennai was waiting for Albie Morkel to play a fine innings. He proved his capability with this innings but what the spectators expect from him is another fine innings where he marshals the Chennai Super Kings to an emphatic win.

It was insignificant that Dhoni fired yesterday. The team was batting well at least. A total of 246 and a breezy knock of 127 off 56 balls from Murali Vijay was good enough to announce the Chennai Super Kings getting back to form. But in IPL, the results may still go more unpredictable.

The Rajasthan Royals innings

The Rajasthan Royals is considered as one of the best teams in the IPL but there are teams who keep constantly getting the better off each other. The poor fielding and bowling of Chennai Super Kings let the Rajasthan Royals post 223 runs to lose the game. The Chennai Super Kings's bowling has always remained ordinary and they could very well let the others take advantage of their bowling. The team that is destined to lose might go on to win or might at least come closer to victory like Rajasthan Royals did yesterday.

The Chennai Super Kings are good at reflexive fielding but one wonders why they fail tremendously in catching sitters. Do they become shaky? Are they nervous? Or is that fear of failure? With Naman Ojha's 94 off 55 and Shane Watson's muscle powered 60 off 25, the Rajasthan Royals chased from almost 200 runs required off 90 balls and came closer to victory with only 23 runs short of finishing on the winning side.

A Doug Bollinger has to land only a couple of days before to rescue the team from a Chennai Super Kings bowling massacre. Improvements on ground fielding, catching and bowling (introducing new and effective bowlers) will take the Chennai Super Kings past the first round and move them to the top four from where they can aim for an IPL victory!

 

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CSK vs RCB round 2: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Law of averages favors CSK: RCB goes clueless on reason for loss

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The Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL 3 second round match ended up with Chennai Super Kings on the winning side. The law of averages favors Chennai Super Kings - Royal Challengers Bangalore clueless on loss

The Royal Challengers Challenge

The Royal Challengers might have gone a little clueless on what cost them the match. Perhaps, they took the losing Chennai Super Kings team too easily. But it was apparent that in their innings the Royal Challengers did make a few attempts to win. Jacques Kallis's classy batting that maneuvered the gaps could not come handy once more. After Robin Utthappa was dropped, the team depended on him to repeat the trick that he did on his home turf.

But the clear Chennai MA Chidambaram pitch is always a flat wicket which makes Sachin Tendulkar say that it is his favorite ground. Robin Utthappa went out early in the uncertain T20 format of the game. Jakati's bowling was unexpected considering the bowler is little known in the cricketing fraternity. Jacques Kallis could not accelerate the innings after building up a good launching pad. The run out cost not only his wicket but also the game for the Royal Challengers.

The RCB could post only about 161 runs for the Chennai Super Kings to chase who were seriously held up in the 15th over and the run rate did not move much further until Kevin Peterson and Cameron White chipped in with a few shots.

The Chennai Super Kings innings watched from an electric train

I was travelling on train and while going past the stadium a few of us could not resist to take a look for a few seconds. Near the entrance on the train, we could not look at each others' faces just because though we were embarrassed by our acts, cricket is simply irresistible to every Indian. It seemed like eternity when we were seconds away from the Stadium. "Still it has not come," one of the commuters said.

The moment arrived. Voila! Live Cricket from Electric Train. It seemed to be very close. We could make out that Matthew Hayden was playing. The RCB bowler ran into the pitch. The non-striker was attempting a run. Seconds flashed and it was all over! We got back to our seats and I heard some of them speaking, "Hayden is still in,"

Still excited faces! I knew they were going to remain so for long. A surprising candidate was Murali Vijay who could play the best of cricketing shots and help the Chennai Super Kings win the match. Amidst IPL T20 sloggers Murali Vijay did a good job with his bat. Surprising that the Chennai Super Kings could make a win with less of hiccups though they had some after losing two quick wickets of Dhoni and Morkel.

This win helped build the team morale of the Chennai Super Kings! Dhoni's presence has also made the team a better one. There will be significant improvements when the team bowls than bats. Dhoni could maneuver the fielders and fetch wins from nowhere out of the blue. Captain Cool remains cool even when a few catches are dropped. He always thinks about what next to do when something adverse happens. That is what that makes Dhoni win matches than the "Midas Touch" which is pure myth!

It is presence of mind, hard work and ability to be cool all the time that makes Dhoni a very good Captain!


 

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