Its rivalry clash between KXIP (who defeated the CSK in 1st leg of this season) and CSK in do or die situation for CSK...."Big players must perform in Big games"....A very well known cricket in the cricketing field....A unbeated half century from the Captain Cool Ensured that CSK stormed in to the semis...
Strange Decision:-
Having won the toss,Mahi asked his counter part to bat first...After Jayawardene scored two consecutive sixes off tyagi's over,the decision turned out to be too odd...Tyagi took a blinder to remove inform Jayawardene....... Sangakara and Marsh played sensibly and brought up their 5o run partnership...Just when Sanga was threatening, CSK's promising bowler R.Ashwin castled his stumps...Soon Yuvi followed pavilion...It was upto Pathan and Marsh to add on to score card and they did the same..Marsh nothed up a 57 ball 88 with 5 sixes....Pathan too chipped in with a cameo of 27 ball 44..At the end of the innings,the scorecard showed 192/5
Well Executed Chase:-
Hayden failed as usual with the bat...Vijay too went back to the hut earlier...Inform Raina and Badrinath joined hands for the run chase...they brought their 50 run partnership and Raina was departed for well made 46.....Badrinath continued and brought up which was his 5th IPL fifty before he was stumped for 53 off Piyush....Dhoni continued and ran well between the wickets and converted the 1's into 2's....The match was brought down to the wire.....CSK required 16 runs of last 6 balls... First ball went for a FOUR through covers....The second ball went high,took the parabolic path and was returning to long on.....Chawla DROPED it....or SAVED TWO RUNS....Take your own call....The next two balls was launched into the orbit by Dhoni....The biggest six ever that was seen by Himchal people...one ofcourse crossed 108 m....Dhoni punched his air...an he was looking pumped up...
At the post match ceremony the comments given by the skippers were,
KUMAR SANGAKARA:-
We needed to get our yorkers right, but wasn't to be. Boys worked hard, but couldn't close it off. We have had patches of great batting, great bowling, bad bowling, bad batting. That kind of season. It's been a privilege to play for Kings XI Punjab, a privilege to play in front of these crowds
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI:-
It's a tough game, you can't always perform, but if you perform in big games, you get that tag of being the pressure player. But the fact is, Raina and Badri set the chase up. It was an emotional moment. Your franchise pays so much money for you, you should at least make the semi-finals. After that you can say it is a lottery. The kind of franchise we have got, the kind of team we have, we should have made it to the semi-finals before this game. So it was an emotional moment, at least for me
CSK finally stormed into the semis...They will face the winner of DD vs DC clash...
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