bad ball under the circumstances, full toss drifting down, flicked away to the leg-side, and while it is fielded well at deep square-leg by Cooper, they are able to get back for the second run. The throw was a tad awry, but he should have made it anyway!
RR vs CSK, 26th match at Chennai, IPL, Apr 21 2012 - Ball by Ball Commentary
CSK won by 7 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
Presentation
Dhoni: Games like these, you need to be calm right through the end. we bowled well, there were a few overs where we gave away a lot of runs but Kulasekara bowled well. The last ball, had it gone straight to hand, it would have been a Super Over and that is never an easy thing.
Dravid: You got to give credit to the bowlers, they restricted us to the score, we fell 20-25 runs short. Proud of the way the boys bowled, lot of young boys and we have done well. The way Stuart Binny bowled to the likes of Dhoni and Bravo was excellent.
Faff du Plessis is the man of the match for the second time in a row. He says, "We have played here a couple of days and got 150 plus, so we are used to the slow wicket. I am in a good space, good form, when you are in good form you need to cash in, trying to take it easy, not think too much"
That was an excellent finish in the end, after it looked throughout that the game was going to get over at least an over before the close! In the end, captain Dhoni calmly guided them through to a win, but not before they had survived some anxious moments. Presentation in a few minutes.
In the mean time, you can head over for the commentary of the second match between Delhi and Pune here
yorker yet again and that has been played away to long-off for...only a single! What have Chennai done, why have they taken it to the last ball?
slower yet again, driven to mid-off and Dravid slides and they get a single.
yorker and played away well though by Dhoni, through to deep mid-wicket for a couple.
up and over, through the extra-cover region for only a single!
8 off five. Surely they cannot mess up
Slower one and played away to the off side for a single
Apoorv: ""Will there be another twist in the tale?!" - Ravi Shastri"
"You betcha AP the double Rs will want that to happen!" - Danny Morrison"
Binny's here.
dabs it away to the short third-man fielder for a single
swing and miss! Tried to send it into the next state but misses it as it was much slower.
pulled away by Dhoni and they are able to come back for the second run again.
played away to leg-side, easy run taken
that is an excellent bal, yorker and dug out well, goes to mid-on and they come back for the second as the long-on fielder needed to run into the circle
fullish ball, played away to the leg-side and the pair run quickly enough to get their second run! Hogg could do nothing to prevent it.
that has been flicked away by Dhoni through the short fine-leg region for a four, that has made Chennai favourites yet again!
played away to the deep square-leg region for a single
inside out and that has been sent over the covers for four! That is well hit by Bravo and that reduces the pressure for the side.
Bravo tries to go inside-out and that is misfielded by Binny this time, and it goes through to the sweeper for a couple.
played away to the covers and they are off for a single, this time the ball is collected well and the stumps are hit direct, but Dhoni's in.
Oooh! Run-out chance missed and they get an overthrow! Driven to the covers and well fielded by Binny, who tries to throw the stumps down at the striker's end, Bravo was way out, misses.
shorter this time and hit into the covers, but not for runs! Only 2 runs off the over and they lost two wickets there.
slower one and Dhoni almost chips it back to the bowler!
Over 20 • CSK 147/3
CSK won by 7 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)