Losing team Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming has praised Rajasthan Royals opener Jos Buttler for his match-winning unbeaten knock, saying the English batsman was a class apart during their IPL game here. Moments after the victory, Twitter congratulated the Indian for his “sensational ton”. Prasad told Sportstar. Rayudu was rewarded for his good show in the IPL with a place in the Indian ODI team on their tour to England. Dhoni pulls the ball towards the square-leg fence for a four off the third delivery, before handing the strike back to Rayudu with a single.
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Here are some of the tweets.
CSK who are placed second on the points table, four points adrift SRH, are not under a lot of pressure, unlike the mid-table teams. Bowling and fielding are two fields in which the CSK has struggled in the past few matches but still, ironically enough, it has one of the best bowling line-ups in this edition of the IPL.
The Super Kings now have eight wins from 12 matches and are on the verge of qualification. “The way he bats, it makes the bowling look easy”.
Kane Williamson (51) and Shikhar Dhawan (79) put on a partnership of 123 runs for the second wicket.
The evergreen Dhoni: In 12 innings in this tournament, MS Dhoni has finished not out eight times and now has 413 runs at an average of 103.30. Will the Men in Yellow complete a 10-wicket win? For CSK- Deepak Chahar, and the spin duo of Harbhajan Singh and Ravindra Jadeja who were incredible the last time they played here would be the bowlers to watch out for. While Shane Watson has already scored 34 runs from just 20 balls, Ambati Rayudu has been supporting well from the other end, with 19 from 16 balls.
Captain Kane continues on: It’s fair to say not many other players have taken to leadership in the IPL quite like Kane Williamson.
But Chennai made a good recovery in the last four overs, thanks to Dwayne Bravo, who featured in the dismissals of both Dhawan and Williamson off successive balls.
Williamson was dismissed off the next ball and then the innings slowed down when, especially against one of the best chasing sides like the Super Kings, it should have quickened.
It was only at the 13 over that Chennai Super Kings lost their first wicket in the form of Shane Watson on 57, with Suresh Raina too following him to the pavilion on the score of 2. No bowler was spared as Bhuvneshwar was manhandled, so was Shakib Al Hasan. On Sunday, opener Alex Hales was dismissed for a laborious two from nine balls.
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The three batsmen form the spine of DD batting, but beyond them, the picture is bleak.
