The Rajasthan Royals turned out to be the top team in the IPL Cricket by marking their fifth victory out of the six matches played so far. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets thru the excellent bowling of Sohail Tanvir.

The Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. The opening was really disastrous as both the openers – Patel and Fleming were dismissed for a duck. Team’s skipper Dhoni going out for 1 run was really awful. Suresh Raina’s 27 runs and Morkel’s 42 runs were solacing atleast to show a 3 digit figures in the scoreboard of the Chennai Super Kings. At the end of their innings, the Chennai Super Kings scored a poor total of 109 runs for all out. Sohail Tanvir grabbed 6 wickets which was much enough to restrict the scores.

Chasing the low total of 110 runs, the Rajasthan Royals started their Innings with confidence and cheers. Graeme Smith stood unbeaten for 35 runs. Asnodkar scored 32 runs. The Chennai Super Kings’ bowlers had lost their confidence and were generous in giving extras of 21 runs (w 14, lb 6, nb 1) which was unacceptable when you had set such a low target. The Rajasthan Royals met their easy target in 14.2 overs and won the match by 8 wickets. Sohai Tanvir was announced the “Man of the Match”.

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin
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