Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Eliminator – Chennai Super Kings vs
Mumbai Indians
Match – 74 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – May 23, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Today will be the much awaited eliminator match between Mumbai Indians and defending champions, Chennai Super Kings. Both the teams have played much below their expected performance level and thus will be hoping that today they come back to their full form.
Chennai had the poorest performance so far still the start of IPL are really lucky to qualify for the playoff’s, thanks to RCB who lost their match against Deccan Chargers.
While Mumbai Indians also need to realize their full potential as this is the eliminator, means the team which loses goes packing.
Chennai Super Kings IPL Squad 2012
Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Albie Morkel, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Doug Bollinger, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Suraj Randiv, Sudeep Tyagi, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Styris, Faf du Plessis, Joginder Sharma, Yo Mahesh, Ganapathi Vignesh, MS Dhoni(captain/keeper), Wriddhiman Saha.Mumbai Indians IPL Squad 2012
Sachin Tendulkar, Herschelle Gibbs, Rohit Sharma, Richard Levi, Tirumalasetti Suman, Sujit Nayak, Apoorv Wankhade, Aiden Blizzard, Jaydev Shah, Rahul Shukla, Suryakumar Yadav, Amitoze Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Clint McKay, RP Singh, Harbhajan Singh(Captain), Robin Peterson, Pragyan Ojha, Pawan Suyal, Abu Nechim, Dhawal Kulkarni, Yuzvendra Chahal, James Franklin, Thisara Perera, Kieron Pollard, Davy Jacobs, Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu, Sushant Marathe, Aditya Tare.Toss - Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to Field.
Result – Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 38 runs
| Chennai Super Kings Innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Murali Vijay | c R Sharma b D Kulkarni | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| Michael Hussey | c D Kulkarni b J Franklin | 49 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 125.64 | |
| Suresh Raina | b D Kulkarni | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| S Badrinath | c R Sharma b K Pollard | 47 | 39 | 6 | 1 | 120.51 | |
| MS Dhoni (c & wk) | Not Out | 51 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 255.00 | |
| Ravindra Jadeja | c R Sharma b D Kulkarni | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Dwayne Bravo | Not Out | 33 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 235.71 | |
| Albie Morkel | |||||||
| Ravichandran Ashwin | |||||||
| Shadab Jakati | |||||||
| Ben Hilfenhaus | |||||||
| Extras | (b 0,lb 2,w 3, nb 0) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 20 overs) | 187 | (9.35 runs per over) | ||||
Fall of wickets (Chennai Super Kings):
1-1 (Vijay, 1.1 ov), 2-1 (Raina, 1.2 ov), 3-95 (Badrinath, 13.2 ov), 4-106 (Hussey, 14.2 ov), 5-114 (Jadeja, 15.1 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| Harbhajan Singh | 3 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 6.66 | |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | 4 | 0 | 46 | 3 | 11.50 | (w 2) |
| RP Singh | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 8.50 | |
| Lasith Malinga | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 10.25 | (w 1) |
| Kieron Pollard | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 8.70 | |
| Dwayne Smith | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | |
| James Franklin | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 12.00 |
| Mumbai Indians Innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Sachin Tendulkar | run out (R Jadeja/S Jakati) | 11 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Dwayne Smith | c R Jadeja b S Jakati | 38 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 150.00 | |
| Rohit Sharma | c M Dhoni b A Morkel | 14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 73.68 | |
| Dinesh Karthik (wk) | c M Dhoni b A Morkel | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 150.00 | |
| James Franklin | c M Dhoni b DJ Bravo | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| Ambati Rayudu | c M Vijay b R Ashwin | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 157.14 | |
| Kieron Pollard | c S Raina b DJ Bravo | 16 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 84.21 | |
| Harbhajan Singh (c) | c S Raina b B Hilfenhaus | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Lasith Malinga | b R Jadeja | 17 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 106.25 | |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | Not Out | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| RP Singh | Not Out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 0,lb 5,w 5, nb 1) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 20 overs) | 149 | (7.45 runs per over) | ||||
Fall of wickets (Mumbai Indians):
1-47 (Tendulkar, 4.6 ov), 2-55 (Smith, 6.2 ov), 3-68 (Karthik, 8.1 ov), 4-77 (Sharma, 10.1 ov), 5-96 (Rayudu, 11.5 ov), 6-102 (Franklin, 13.3 ov), 7-103 (Harbhajan Singh, 14.2 ov), 8-129 (Pollard, 17.6 ov), 9-148 (Malinga, 19.4 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| Shadab Jakati | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 6.25 | (w 1) |
| Ben Hilfenhaus | 4 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 5.70 | (nb 1 w 4) |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6.00 | |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 7.50 | |
| Albie Morkel | 4 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 7.80 | |
| Stuart Binny | 3 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3.33 |
