This was a very important match for the Chennai Super because if they win they would surely reach the semis and Mumbai Indians would be out of the tournament.And for Deccan Chargers this match was just a nothing match apart from this that they would like to win a match in front of their home crowd.Deccan Chargers captain Gilchrist won the and chose to bat first.
Deccan Chargers did not had a great start they lost their first two wickets in just three over that too of Gibbs and Gilchrist.The Styris and Rao had a partnership till the 11th over when Styris got out.Styris made 20 of 20 with three fours.Rao made 46 of 46 with 3 fours and one six and Teja made 40 of 28 with 4 fours and one six.Afridi again failed and he just scored one run.Morkal and Balaji both took three wickets for their team.So Deccan Chargers were able to score 147 of their 20 over with the loss of 8 wickets.
Chasing a small total of 148 Chennai Super had the opening partnership of 26.Fleming wass the first one to get out scoring 14 of 9 balls with three fours.Patel score 20.And Raina was the one who took his team to victory and he also hit the winning run as a six.He scored 54 of 43 with 9 fours and 3 sixes and as a result of his great batting he got the man of the match.Know they were in the semi finals and would face Kings IV Panjab in the semi final.
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