Chennai Super Kings (CSK) yesterdays' lost against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) has just tightened their screws of making into play-offs of (IPL 5) Indian Premier League V 2012.
Return of Adam Gilchrist proved to be very important in a must win game, where he stood the ground and finished game for his team. Chasing 120 was never so difficult in a T20 game but without any big names in their line-up KXIP did a decent job to pull a crucial win. Gilly unbeaten 63 was packed firehouse shots all over the park and he seems to be in hurry to finish the game off early, to improve their net run rate as well.
In the all important game Chennai has played more uncharacteristic game and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Big names like MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Murali Vijay were never upto their mark, but never take away credit from KXIP bowlers. They performed really well Awaana was key in restricting Chennai to modest total of 120. he seems to be the rising star, Azhar Mahmood and Pyush Chawala backed up him.
DJ Bravo has been the outstanding performer of CSK in this season. Bravo once again played very crucial innings for his team he along with Albie Morkel tried to shift the gears in 16th over, but it was too late where they were place at 78/5 at that point. Bravo felt 2 runs short of 50, and CSK managed to score 120/7 in 20.0 overs.
Return of Adam Gilchrist proved to be very important in a must win game, where he stood the ground and finished game for his team. Chasing 120 was never so difficult in a T20 game but without any big names in their line-up KXIP did a decent job to pull a crucial win. Gilly unbeaten 63 was packed firehouse shots all over the park and he seems to be in hurry to finish the game off early, to improve their net run rate as well.
So here ends the CSK journey in league stages ending up with 17 points in IPL point table and placed in #4 now. Meanwhile, KXIP run for play-offs is still alive with one game to play still, KXIP vs. DD on 19 May, 2012.
As Delhidare Devils and Kolkata Knight Riders are already qualified to play-off of IPL 5 2012. there is a stiff competition for 3 and 4 places, who will be making to the play-offs are not yet confirmed. Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore are bidding for those places. Indian Premier League is still pretty much alive with all these top teams fighting hard.
