Raina ton helps Chennai beat Punjab by 15 runs
CHENNAI: Suresh Raina smashed a brilliant century to help Chennai Super Kings to record an exciting 15-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in a day-night Indian Premier League match here at the MA...
May 02, 2013
Batting first after winning the toss, Chennai Super Kings made 186 for four in 20 overs with the help of an unbeaten 100 by Raina who struck six sixes and seven fours in his 53-ball innings.
Left-hander Raina became the third batsman after Chris Gayle and Shane Watson to score a century in the current edition.
Later, the Chennai bowlers kept their cool to restrict Kings XI Punjab to 171 for six despite a brilliant counter-attacking partnership of 95 between Shaun Marsh and David Miller.
Marsh scored a 51-ball 73 with eight fours and two sixes while Miller hit an unbeaten 51 from 26 balls with five fours and two sixes.
The win took CSK`s points tally to 18 from 11 matches and they are now all but through to the last four stage of the competition. The seventh successive win is an IPL record which they now share with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Needing 19 to win off the last over, Dwayne Bravo bowled intelligently giving away only three runs but more importantly took three wickets to finish with figures of three for 34.
Marsh and Miller did play their part admirably well to get close to the target but in the end, 186 proved to be good enough for the CSK to roll on.
Pakistan’s premier sports channel Geo Super telecast this interesting match live from Chennai, India.
