M S-led CSK beat Rajasthan

CSK made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Manpreet Gony and Joginder (Shar)made way for Twenty20 debutant Sudeep Tyagi and Shadab Jakati.

RR made one change to their playing eleven – Paul Valthaty made way for Siddharth Trivedi.

On winning the toss, Shane Warne, RR’s skipper, chose to field.

The first Powerplay of CSK’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 40, and lost a couple of wickets.

Matthew Hayden, who faced a couple of balls, score a run. Yusuf Pathan had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he broke the four-run stand.

Parthiv, who faced (Pat)eleven balls, scored just three. Fourteen balls later, he was caught by Kamran Khan. Pathan broke the 13-run stand.

CSK scored 50 off 7.1 overs (43 balls). RR hadn’t conceded any extras at that point.

The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 33 balls. While the contribution of Suresh Raina, the player of the match, to the partnership was 27, Subramaniam Badrinath’s contribution to it was 25. Extras didn’t contribute to the partnership.

Ten overs into the match, the drinks break was taken. CSK had scored 81 for the loss of a couple of wickets at that point. While Raina’s contribution to the partnership was 50, Badrinath’s contribution to it was 27.

Raina’s half-century – which included five boundaries and three sixes – came off 26 balls.

Badrinath, whose 27-ball innings included four boundaries, eventually scored 29. Forty-six balls after Parthiv’s dismissal, he was stumped by Mahesh Rawat. Warne broke the 67-run partnership.

Jacob Oram, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a couple. Ten balls later, he was caught by Dimitri Mascarenhas. Munaf Patel broke the four-run stand.

CSK scored 100 off 14.4 overs (88 balls). RR had conceded an extra at that point.

The fifth-wicket pair put on 50 off 33 balls. While Raina’s contribution to the partnership was 37, the contribution of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, CSK’s skipper, to it was a dozen. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was a couple.

CSK scored 150 off 18.5 overs (114 balls). RR had conceded four extras at that point.

Raina, whose 55-ball innings included 1o boundaries and five sixes, eventually scored 98. Forty-two balls after Oram’s dismissal, he was caught by Graeme Smith. Munaf broke the 71-run partnership.

The man from Ranchi eventually scored 22. His (Dho)nineteen-ball innings included a six. He was unbeaten, as was Albie Morkel, who faced a ball, scoring a boundary.

RR eventually conceded five extras. CSK scored 164 for the loss of five wickets off 20 overs.

Khan, who bowled 2.4 wicketless overs, conceded 35.

Trivedi, who bowled three wicketless overs, conceded 35.

Mascarenhas, who bowled 3.2 wicketless overs, conceded 26.

Warne, who bowled four overs, conceded 24. He picked up a wicket.

Pathan, who bowled three overs, conceded 17. He picked up a couple of scalps, as did Munaf, who bowled four overs, conceding 25.

The first Powerplay of RR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 38, and lost a couple of wickets.

Smith, who faced five balls, scored a couple. A couple of overs into the chase, he was caught by Badrinath. Morkel broke the nine-run stand.

Swapnil Asnodkar, whose eight-ball innings included a six, scored 10. Twenty-one balls later, he was dismissed hit wicket off the bowling of Morkel, who broke the 20-run stand.

RR scored 50 off 8.5 overs (53 balls). The number of extras they had conceded gave CSK no reason to be in seventh heaven.

Rob Quiney, whose 31-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 28. Twenty-four balls after Asnodkar’s dismissal, he was trapped leg before wicket by Raina, who broke the 26-run stand.

Ten overs into the chase, the drinks break was taken. RR had scored 61 for the loss of three wickets at that point. While Ravindra Jadeja was batting on eight, Pathan had scored half-a-dozen.

Pathan, whose 13-ball innings included three boundaries, eventually scored 20. Twenty-one balls after Quiney’s dismissal, he was caught by Raina. Lakshmipathy Balaji broke the 31-run stand.

Mascarenhas, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. A couple of overs later, he was caught by Muttiah Muralitharan. Oram broke the run-a-ball stand.

RR scored 100 off 15.2 overs (92 balls). The number of extras they had conceded gave CSK no reason to be in seventh heaven.

From the 17^th over (which was bowled by Oram), Parthiv kept wickets in place of Dhoni.

Jadeja, whose 33-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, eventually scored 37. Fifteen balls after Mascarenhas’ dismissal, he was caught by Matthew Hayden. Balaji broke the 16-run stand.

Warne, who faced nine balls, scored just three. Three balls later, he was caught by Badrinath. Balaji broke the run-a-ball stand.

Rawat, whose six-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. He was unbeaten.

The eighth-wicket pair put on a run. Munaf, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. A ball after Warne’s dismissal, he was caught by Parthiv off the bowling of Oram.

Trivedi, who faced three balls, scored a couple. Eight balls later, he was caught by Raina. Balaji broke the nine-run stand.

Khan was absent hurt.

CSK eventually conceded eight extras. RR, who were dismissed for 126 off 19.3 overs, lost by 38 runs.

Tyagi, who bowled two overs, conceded eight. He was wicketless, as was Muralitharan, who bowled four overs, conceding 33.

Raina, who bowled two overs, conceded 11. He picked up a wicket.

Oram and Morkel bowled four overs apiece, picking up two wickets apiece. While the former conceded 27, the latter conceded 21.

Balaji, who bowled 3.3 overs, conceded 21. He picked up four scalps.