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Editorial: Mohit Goyal

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Deccan Chargers Vs Chennai Super Kings

It’s the last league game for both these teams. Hyderabad are languishing at the bottom of the table and this is their last chance to win a game at home. For Chennai, this is an extremely important game. A victory here and they will progress to the next round. Though Chennai start as favourites, they haven’t been in the best of form of late: A shock defeat at the hands of Bangalore, when they failed to chase a meagre 127 was followed by a 10-run defeat against Rajasthan.

What if Chennai lose today? If Chennai lose today and Mumbai win tomorrow, Mumbai will advance on account of better net run rate. (Chennai’s current NRR is -0.241 while Mumbai’s is +0.531). Should Mumbai lose tomorrow, Chennai will go through to the semis(Chennai are on 14 points, Mumbai are on 12)

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Chennai: A brilliant Knock of 81 by Matthew Hayden with 12 boundaries and two over boundaries and a powerful innings by Suresh Raina (54 - 3 sixes and 3 fours) saw Chennai Super Kings folding their innings at a handsome score of 208 for five wickets in 20 overs.Skipper MS Dhoni scored 30 runs out of 16 balls.

Mumbai Indians started without Sachin again - who could not make it today also due to his injury. Suffered early loss of Luke Ronchi (runout at 2) and then Robin Utthapa came in to score 43 in which he flashed six boundaries and one six. Even batsman like Sanath Jausuriya, Shaun Pollock, Dwane Bravo could not contribute much to the overall total and were out early in the game. Chennai bowling was well and kept the visitors under control. Only in the end it was Captain Harbhajan Singh came in and added excitement to the crowd with three sixes and a boundary but fell to Muralitharan with just eight balls to go. In the end it was left to Ashis Nehra and Abhishek Nayar who could not reach the target and finished the innings six runs behind..

Chennai Super Kings won the nerve wrenching match by 6 runs and kept the Mumbai Indians from away from their first win in this tournament. Matthew Hayden was awarded the Man of the Match award.

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