Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL, Chennai
Hayden and Oram crush Kolkata
April 26, 2008
Chennai Super Kings 152 for 1 (Hayden 70*, Dhoni 43*) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 147 for 9 (Shukla 42, Oram 3-32) by 9 wickets
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
A superb unbeaten 70 by Matthew Hayden put the seal on an emphatic nine-wicket win for Chennai Super Kings, as they thrashed Kolkata Knight Riders with 19 balls to spare. Requiring 148 for a win, Chennai were put on course by a 66-run first-wicket stand by Hayden and Parthiv Patel in just 8.2 overs, before Hayden and Mahendra Singh Dhoni put together 86 to complete the victory, giving Chennai their third win in as many games to put them on top of the IPL table.
Full report follows
20 overs Kolkata Knight Riders 147 for 9 (Shukla 42, Oram 3-32) v Chennai Super Kings
An efficient performance from the Chennai Super Kings bowlers, which was reckoned to be the team's weak link, left them well-placed to go top of the table after restricting the Kolkata Knight Riders to 147.
After opting to bat, the early impetus for Kolkata was provided by Brendon McCullum, who silenced the huge crowd with some brutal hitting. There were no half-measures as he raced to 24 off 12, reclaiming the orange cap for the tournament's leading scorer in the process, before holing out to Suresh Raina at extra cover off Jacob Oram. The crowd soon had more to scream about as Ricky Ponting's dismal run continued, falling for a first-ball duck.
Kolkata's other wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha took the baton from McCullum, making a streaky, quickfire 27 - a top-edge off Manpreet Gony flew over the wicketkeeper for four and a similar shot off the next ball went for six. His luck then ran out and he was bowled by a ball that jagged back in.
Despite losing wickets, Kolkata's run-rate still hovered around ten after six overs, and with David Hussey and Sourav Ganguly in, a big score was still on the cards. The next four overs, though, emphatically handed the advantage to Chennai, as only 11 runs were given away and both Hussey and Ganguly were removed.
Ganguly, who had been starved of the strike when McCullum and Saha were blazing away, was cramped for room by Muttiah Muralitharan's leg-stump line and struggled to get the ball away. He finally fell for a scratchy 12, in the 10th over, gifting a catch to S Badrinath at cover after failing to pick a slower one from Joginder Sharma.
With the marquee names dismissed, Kolkata were reeling at 70 for 5 after ten overs and in danger of getting bowled out without utilising their full quota of overs. Laxmi Ratan Shukla, though, ensured they avoided that embarrassment as his late-order hitting earned 39 runs off the last four overs.
At the toss, Dhoni had been confident of chasing down a target of "around 180-200". Now that the target is significantly smaller, he will fancy Chennai's chances of making it three wins out of three.
| Twenty20 match |  | Indian Premier League - 11th match Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders | | 2007/08 season |
| Played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 26 April 2008 - day/night (20-over match) Result Chennai Super Kings won by 9 wickets (with 18 balls remaining) |
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| Kolkata Knight Riders innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
 | SC Ganguly | c Badrinath b Joginder Sharma | 12 | 48 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 63.15 | |
 | BB McCullum | c Raina b Oram | 24 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 200.00 | |
| RT Ponting | c Raina b Oram | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| WP Saha | b Gony | 27 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 168.75 | ||
| DJ Hussey | c Badrinath b Amarnath | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | c Joginder Sharma b Amarnath | 16 | 32 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | ||
| LR Shukla | run out (Dhoni/Joginder Sharma) | 42 | 48 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 127.27 | ||
| AB Agarkar | c Muralitharan b Gony | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 122.22 | ||
| M Kartik | c & b Oram | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
| I Sharma | not out | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 133.33 | ||
| AB Dinda | not out | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Extras | (lb 2, w 4, nb 2) | 8 | |||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets; 20 overs; 99 mins) | 147 | (7.35 runs per over) | ||||||
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| JDP Oram | 4 | 0 | 32 | 3 | 8.00 | ||
| M Gony | 4 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 10.00 | (1nb) | |
| P Amarnath | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | ||
| M Muralitharan | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3.00 | (3w) | |
| Joginder Sharma | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 8.00 | (1nb, 1w) |
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| Chennai Super Kings innings (target: 148 runs from 20 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| PA Patel | c Sharma b Agarkar | 21 | 38 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 77.77 | ||
| ML Hayden | not out | 70 | 77 | 49 | 6 | 3 | 142.85 | ||
| MS Dhoni | not out | 43 | 38 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 159.25 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 4, w 12, nb 1) | 18 | |||||||
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| Total | (1 wicket; 17 overs; 77 mins) | 152 | (8.94 runs per over) | ||||||
| Did not bat MEK Hussey, S Badrinath, SK Raina, JDP Oram, Joginder Sharma, P Amarnath, M Gony, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-66 (Patel, 8.2 ov) |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| AB Dinda | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.33 | (2w) | |
| I Sharma | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 8.66 | (1nb, 1w) | |
| AB Agarkar | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 6.33 | ||
| DJ Hussey | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 | ||
| Mohammad Hafeez | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 | (1w) | |
| M Kartik | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 11.00 | ||
| LR Shukla | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 9.00 |
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Toss Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat first
Points Chennai Super Kings 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0
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