Jaipur, May 11: It was a low-scoring game at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here on Thursday night. Chennai Super Kings, thanks to Albie Morkel and Srikkanth Anirudha’s cameos, won by four wickets against Rajasthan Royals.
Here are the highlights of this game.
# Ben Hilfenhaus was the Man-of-the-match for his excellent bowling performance of 2/8 in four overs
# Chennai reached the target of 127 in 18.1 overs with the loss of six wickets
# Morkel and Anirudha remained unbeaten on 18 each off 6 balls
# Morkel-Anirudha’s unbroken seventh-wicket partnership yielded 43 runs in just 1.5 overs
# Chennai needed 50 runs off last 30 balls
# That came down to 30 off 3 overs and later 12 off 12 balls
# Siddarth Trivedi became the most capped Rajasthan player, playing his 56th IPL game
# Trivedi took his 50th wicket in IPL, dismissing Dwayne Bravo. He is the second Rajasthan bowler after Shane Warne (57) to reach this feat
# Trivedi bowled a fine spell to finish with 2/18 in four overs
# Murali Vijay was dismissed for a duck in the first over by Shane Watson. This was his second score of nought in IPL 5. He has 86 from eight innings with a highest of 41
# MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first
# Rain halted play after just one ball. And again after 2.1 overs. The third interruption was after 8.5 overs
# 55 minutes of play was lost after the first interruption while the second time about seven-minute delay. However no overs were lost
# Hilfenhaus bowled a wicket maiden over. It was the second over of the match and he dismissed Rahul Dravid
# Hilfenhaus was excellent in his first spell where he completed all four overs unchanged. He had figures of 4-1-8-2
# It was a great comeback by Hilfenhaus, who was hit for 14 in the final three balls of the match by Mumbai Indians all-rounder Dwayne Smith to win the game
# S Badrinath missed his first game in five years of IPL. He had played 74 matches in a row for Chennai. However, could not make it for today’s playing XI as he was ill
# Suresh Raina is the only player now to have played in all Chennai matches. He played his 75th today
# Faf du Plessis also was not well and missed the game. Srikkanth Anirudha and Michael Hussey came in for Chennai
# Rajasthan brought back Brad Hodge in place of Owais Shah
# Rajasthan registered their lowest first six overs score of 28/2
# Rajasthan became the first team in IPL 5 to score 200 boundaries
# Rajasthan also slumped to their lowest total this season, 126/6 in 20 overs
# Brad Hodge topscored for the home team with 33 off 28 balls
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