Murali Vijay powered Chennai Super Kings to beat Delhi Dare Davils in the 2nd Qualifier match by 86 runs. CSK going to play their 3rd consecutive IPL finals and they are 1 win away from their Hat-rick IPL titles.
After winning the toss Delhi gave batting to Chennai. Murali Vijay is of the mark with back to back boundaries and starts to make toil all the Delhi bowlers. Mike Hussey gave support to Vijay who was smashing the ball very well. Murali Vijay becomes the 1st Indian Batsmen to
score 2 centuries in IPL history. He was gone in the last ball of CSK innings after hitting 113 off just 58 balls with 4 massive sixes.
Suresh Raina (27), MS Dhoni (23) and Dwayne Bravo
(33) lead Chennai to make a huge total of 222 in 20 overs. It was too difficult to chase it down for Delhi.
Chasing 223- Delhi lost their wicket regularly. They need to good start to chase massive target. But Hilfenhaus removed the danger man David Warner with a brilliant catch from the centurion Murali Vijay.After Virendar Shewag was gone with a great catch by Mike Hussey. Mahela Jayawardane try to do something for Delhi but after scoring 55 off 38 balls he was bowled by Ashwin. its all over for Delhi as they were bowled out for just 136 which brought Chennai a very easy 86 runs win and make a place in the final of IPL-2012.
Man of the match - Murali Vijay
"First
of all, I need to thanks Bharath Arun and Gurunath, the owner, without
them wouldn't have been possible. I know the Chennai wicket and I
decided to hit straighter. After six overs I thought the wicket was
playing slower, decided one of us had bat through the end, I was lucky
to come through. Happy to be a part of this unit and learning from
them. Bravo's a good dancer, cannot match up to him."
Sehwag: The way Vijay played, he took the game away from us, then they
have a good batting line-up and it took it away. Yes, we missed Morne
Morkel, unfortunately Pathan got injured and had to maintain the
balance. It was a good pitch and you could score 180 was chaseable, but
40 more runs was going to be difficult to chase.
MS Dhoni: It was up to the individuals, Vijay and Hussey gave us a good
start, good to see Raina hitting a few balls away and in the end it was
closed off well by Bravo. Personally, I thought they had had line-up to
do it but it was not going to be easy. Lot of positives, not expected us
to end number one after the league, thanks to the owners for backing
us, we will try and come back hard in the Champions League.
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