What the hell happened? I aged at least 5 years in the course of this match, it was unbelievable.
Chennai won the toss and opted to field. Morkel and Muralitharan made the bowling look easy and the Kings XI batsmen looked awful. Yuvie Singh made 43 from 28 balls, but his was the only batting really worth mentioning; Murali took 3 - 16 as the Super Kings cleaned up Kings XI for a measley 136.
Then Hayden and Patel walked out to start the Chennai reply and made it about a third of the way home darn quickly and without losing a wicket. Considering the Kings XI lads had crumbled before Murali's bowling, it was no surprise the spinners were brought out early. And it seemed to work. Hayden fell for 33 when Powar - who may be the fattest bowler I've ever come across - got some impressive turn with the ball. From there, things slowed right down and the win - which should never have been in question - suddenly stopped looking like a given.
With the exception of Patel, and a few minutes of decent work from Morkel, the batting was pretty damn ordinary. The balls wound down and the runs piled up and finally it was over at 136 runs apiece.
The super over was back!
CSK batted their over first and didn't even make the 6 balls. They did make 10 runs, though, which could have been enough. Should have been enough. But, alas, it wasn't. Kings XI managed the 10 runs with a 6 and a 4 and then it was all over.
Now, an unbiased viewer would no doubt say Chennai didn't deserve the win; that they had it in the bag and gave it away ... blah, blah, blah ...
I, however, am not unbiased. So I'm quite sure that Kings XI somehow cheated.
That's 2 wins and 2 losses for CSK, and a few points for me over at Paddlesweep.
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"So I'm quite sure that Kings XI somehow cheated."
Ha ha ha ha....Kirby, c'mon mate, this is what KXIP can do to others, we may be a bit slow to get off the mark, but now sit back and enjoy the rest of the journey...cheers
How could CSK lose that match? I switched off the t.v when Haydos and Patel were batting well as I thought the match was over!!
It was always going to be tough after Haydos got out, the momentum that he provides was lost, and Raina got out quickly too. And without MSD lower down, the middle order was never going to up that run rate on a slow pitch - Punjab have the best trio of spinners, I think. Theron was fab, too.
I was just being all biased, Baiju. I know they didn't.
@Greyblazer, you turned the TV off at the right time - the match seemed to go on forever and ever and ever ... and then CSK lost. Dammit.
@Rishabh - I miss MSD. He was due to be out for about 10 days, but I think it's only been about 4 ... that means another couple of matches without.
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