Parthiv Patel and Suresh Raina put together an unbeaten century partnership for the second wicket to complement their team's bowlers efforts as Chennai Super Kings routed Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets with 29 balls to spare in the second semi-finals of the Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday night. The Super Kings will play Rajasthan Royals in the final at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday night.
The Super Kings outplayed Kings XI in each department of the game as the bowlers led by Makhaya Ntini and Manpreet Gony restricted the Punjab team to a paltry 112 for 8 in 20 overs to set the foundation for Patel and Raina to take their team home. Kings XI needed to bowl out the Super Kings to have any chance of winning the match and Irfan Pathan gave his side a glimmer of hope when he had S Vidyut caught by Wilkin Mota. However, Patel and Raina who both scored half-centuries ensured there wouldn't be any further setbacks as they set about the run-chase in a mature manner as they mixed caution with aggression.
Raina was the more aggressive of the partners as he hit four boundaries and four massive sixes in his 34-ball knock of 55 runs, and Patel supported him admirably hitting eight well-timed hits to the fence as he remained unbeaten on 51 runs off 48 balls. Raina hit Ramesh Powar for the winning boundary as the Super Kings cantered to their third win against Kings XI in the tournament.
Earlier, Ntini and Gony (2-12) were on song with the ball and never allowed the top-order of the Kings XI to get going as the pace duo combined to account for the first four wickets to fall. Man-of-the-match Ntini drew first blood when he had Hopes caught behind and then Kumar Sangakkara was sporting enough to walk when he edged a Gony delivery to Patel behind the stumps. Matters went from bad to worse soon after for the Kings XI as Gony first had Yuvraj Singh brilliantly caught by Muttiah Muralitharan at midwicket, and Ntini picked up his second wicket when Shaun Marsh (23) chopped a ball on to the wickets to finish with figures of 2-23.
Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals thereafter, and if it wasn't for the 35-runs partnership for the eighth wicket between Mota and Powar, Kings XI may well have been shot out for under 100 runs. Mota hit two boundaries in his knock of 26 runs before Raina took a blinder of a catch off Albie Morkel's bowling to send him back to the dugout. Powar hit three consecutive boundaries in the last over of the innings bowled by L Balaji to help the Kings XI cross the 100-runs mark, but a score of 112 for 8 was never going to be enough against the Super Kings
The Super Kings outplayed Kings XI in each department of the game as the bowlers led by Makhaya Ntini and Manpreet Gony restricted the Punjab team to a paltry 112 for 8 in 20 overs to set the foundation for Patel and Raina to take their team home. Kings XI needed to bowl out the Super Kings to have any chance of winning the match and Irfan Pathan gave his side a glimmer of hope when he had S Vidyut caught by Wilkin Mota. However, Patel and Raina who both scored half-centuries ensured there wouldn't be any further setbacks as they set about the run-chase in a mature manner as they mixed caution with aggression.
Raina was the more aggressive of the partners as he hit four boundaries and four massive sixes in his 34-ball knock of 55 runs, and Patel supported him admirably hitting eight well-timed hits to the fence as he remained unbeaten on 51 runs off 48 balls. Raina hit Ramesh Powar for the winning boundary as the Super Kings cantered to their third win against Kings XI in the tournament.
Earlier, Ntini and Gony (2-12) were on song with the ball and never allowed the top-order of the Kings XI to get going as the pace duo combined to account for the first four wickets to fall. Man-of-the-match Ntini drew first blood when he had Hopes caught behind and then Kumar Sangakkara was sporting enough to walk when he edged a Gony delivery to Patel behind the stumps. Matters went from bad to worse soon after for the Kings XI as Gony first had Yuvraj Singh brilliantly caught by Muttiah Muralitharan at midwicket, and Ntini picked up his second wicket when Shaun Marsh (23) chopped a ball on to the wickets to finish with figures of 2-23.
Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals thereafter, and if it wasn't for the 35-runs partnership for the eighth wicket between Mota and Powar, Kings XI may well have been shot out for under 100 runs. Mota hit two boundaries in his knock of 26 runs before Raina took a blinder of a catch off Albie Morkel's bowling to send him back to the dugout. Powar hit three consecutive boundaries in the last over of the innings bowled by L Balaji to help the Kings XI cross the 100-runs mark, but a score of 112 for 8 was never going to be enough against the Super Kings
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