KKR made one change to their playing eleven – Sarabjit Ladda made way for Lakshmipathy Balaji.
CSK made one change to their playing eleven – Srikkanth Anirudha made
way for Wriddhiman Saha.
On winning the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, CSK’s skipper, chose to bat.
Rain delayed the start of the match.
The first Powerplay of CSK’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay
– was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 15, and lost a couple
of wickets.
Murali Vijay, who faced 14 balls, scored just five. Twenty-three (Iq)balls
into the match, he was caught by Abdulla, the player of the match, who broke
the eight-run stand.
Suresh Raina, who faced nine balls, scored four. Eleven balls later, he
was caught by Jacques Kallis. Needless to say, Yusuf Pathan was in seventh
heaven.
Michael Hussey, who faced 26 balls, scored 15. Thirty-two balls later,
he was caught by Eoin Morgan. Balaji broke the 34-run stand.
CSK scored 50 off 11.2 overs (68 balls). KKR had conceded three extras
at that point.
Subramaniam Badrinath’s half-century – which included three boundaries
and a couple of sixes – came off 37 balls.
The fourth-wicket pair put on 50 off 43 balls. While Badrinath’s contribution
to the partnership was 28, Albie Morkel’s contribution to it was 19. Extras’ contribution
to the partnership was three.
CSK scored 100 off 18.3 overs (111 balls). KKR had conceded half-a-dozen
extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they
eventually conceded.
The fourth-wicket pair eventually put on 65. Badrinath, whose 41-ball
innings included three boundaries and a couple of sixes, eventually scored 54.
Nine overs after Hussey’s dismissal, Rajat Bhatia and Mark Boucher ran him out.
Morkel, whose run-a-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 30.
He was unbeaten.
CSK scored 114 for the loss of four wickets off 20 overs.
Jaydev Unadkat and Kallis bowled a wicketless over apiece. While the
former conceded 11, the latter conceded nine.
Bhatia, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded 10.
Brett Lee, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded eight.
Balaji, Pathan and Abdulla bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket
apiece. They conceded 33, 25, and 15, respectively.
The first Powerplay of KKR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay
– was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 33, and lost a couple
of wickets.
Morgan, whose six-ball innings included a boundary, scored five. Ravichandran
Ashwin had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he broke the nine-run stand.
Gautam Gambhir, KKR’s skipper, scored 16 off 19 balls, which included a
couple of boundaries. Twenty-nine balls later, he was caught by Suraj Randiv.
Ashwin broke the 24-run stand.
KKR scored 50 off 8.3 overs (51 balls). CSK had conceded three extras at
that point.
KKR’s target was revised to 52 off 10 overs.
Ten overs into the match, there was an interruption due to rain. KKR had
scored 61 for the loss of a couple of wickets at that point. While Kallis’ contribution
to the partnership was 21, Manoj Tiwary’s contribution to it was 15.
While both Kallis and Tiwary – whose innings included a couple of
boundaries apiece – were unbeaten, neither of them added to the aforementioned score.
The former faced 23 balls, and the latter faced a dozen balls.
CSK eventually conceded four extras. KKR, who didn’t add to the
aforementioned total, won by 10 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method.
Doug Bollinger, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded half-a-dozen.
Morkel, Shadab Jakati and Randiv bowled a couple of wicketless overs
each, conceding 14 apiece.
Ashwin, who bowled three overs, conceded a dozen. He picked up both the
wickets that fell.
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