The Chennai Super Kings kept their date with the IPL 4 playoffs and while doing so, also maintained their track record at home, this time against the Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the IPL 4 season.
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The Chennai Super Kings prevailed on a slow pitch undoing the Kochi Tuskers Kerala who would have known that winning was always going to be a tough proposition against the IPL 3 winners not to mention trying to qualify for the IPL 4 playoffs.
Michael Hussey played a restrained knock for thirty-two runs as Chennai's hopes for an ambitious start were foiled by some tight bowling before the KTK captain, Parthiv Patel, slipped a couple in his wicket keeping stint to allow Chennai the opportunity of cashing in on an unlikely hero in Wriddhiman Saha.
Saha's forty-six runs from thirty-three balls was exactly the kind of innings the Chennai Super Kings as getting runs was a tough proposition. Perhaps Chennai would have added ten to twenty runs more had Ravindra Jadeja not dismissed Hussey and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Chennai Super Kings.
Yet on the slow pace, 153 was going to be a tough proposition and it was, as was evident in the manner in which Brendon McCullum was forced to go about the innings. Dwayne Bravo stopped Gnaneswar Rao from cutting lose anymore than he could with nineteen runs. Although Brad Hodge scored a half century, the asking rate had gone well over the Kochi Tuskers Kerala's momentum on the day. Although they lost by eleven runs in the end, it would be fair to say that the Kochi team never really found their feet with their batting to beat Chennai.
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