Chennai: A solid unbeaten half-century by Chennai Super Kings' skipper MS Dhoni (67 off 37 balls) helped the two-time IPL champions register a five-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in another last-over finish this season at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Thursday. Chasing 160 to win, CSK reached the target with two balls to spare. With 15 required off the last over, Dhoni held his nerve and finished the game in...
11:47 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Live updates from Game 34 of IPL 6 being played at Chennai's MA Chidamabaram Stadium between two time champions CSK and the debutants Sunrisers Hyderabad. Having won three matches back to back, a confident Chennai Super Kings' batting will be subjected to a test against the in-form bowling of Sunrisers Hyderabad. And with five victories out of seven matches played so far, both the teams are going strong with 10...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Chennai: After having won three matches back to back, a confident Chennai Super Kings' batting will be subjected to a tedious task of facing the in-form bowling of Sunrisers Hyderabad when the two teams lock horns for the first time this year in match 34 of IPL 6 on Thursday. Having won five out of their seven matches played so far, both teams are going strong with 10 points each....
09:28 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Chennai: It rarely happens in T20 cricket that a team loses despite one of its batsman score a hundred. But the IPL 6 witnessed such a game on Monday when Shane Watson's brilliant 61-ball 101 went in vain as his side, Rajasthan Royals, ended up on a losing side. The allrounder rued that they couldn't execute their plans well and that led to their downfall. "Few things went my way...
10:26 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Rajasthan Royals head coach Paddy Upton is hopeful his team will do well against Chennai Super Kings on Monday night. ...
08:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Live updates from IPL 6 Game 30 between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at the Chidambaram Stadium. The confident Chennai Super Kings side will take on Rajasthan Royals in game 30 of this IPL 6 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Monday. Both teams are on eight points at the moment with Chennai coming in the match after an emphatic win over Kolkata Knight Riders while Rajsthan are coming...
07:00 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Chennai: The confident Chennai Super Kings side will take on Rajasthan Royals in game 30 of this IPL 6 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Monday. Both teams are on eight points at the moment with Chennai coming in the match after an emphatic win over Kolkata Knight Riders while Rajsthan are coming after a rare slip up at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The home team has clicked...
10:28 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Kolkata: There were serious concerns about impending showers when the two captains walked out for the toss under grey skies, but the actual storm was played out on the field as Chennai Super Kings got the better of Kolkata Knight Riders in a low-scorer highlighted by sloppy batting and manic running between the wickets. Cricket-wise it was a match to forget, but the drama made for another scrappy thriller as...
07:05 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Live updates from Game 26 of IPL 6 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday. Upbeat after a thumping win over Delhi Daredevils on Thursday, the two-time winners face defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in game 26 of IPL 6. Gautam Gambhir-led KKR will look to bounce back in the tournament in front of their passionate home fans at Eden Gardens....
03:04 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Friday once again tickled his fans' funny bones by cracking few more jokes on his IPL teammate 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja. "If ever Rajni sir had to face sir jadeja's bowling,the battle would be known as CLASH OF THE TITANS," Dhoni wrote on his twitter handle. Dhoni cracked another joke at his teammate, tweeting, "On 17.4.13 no planes landed at delhi...
05:02 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Kolkata: Following an inconsistent start to the season, Chennai Super Kings finally found some decent form thanks to a thumping win over Delhi Daredevils on Thursday, and the two-time winners will next face current champions Kolkata Knight Riders in game 26 of IPL 6 on Saturday. Pushed to the bottom half of the table after another away defeat, KKR will look to bounce back in the tournament in front of...
04:06 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni's presence in the middle order makes it easier for him to nudge around singles and play his natural game, feels Aussie veteran Michael Hussey. "Obviously, when you have someone like MS (Dhoni), you tend to bat more freely. You can just take your singles and rotate the strike. It's really an enjoyable experience batting with guys like MS and Suresh (Raina) who are boundary hitters,"...
02:10 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Coming off an upset defeat to Pune Warriors at home, two-time IPL winners Chennai Super Kings got back to winning ways against the poorest team in the league, Delhi Daredevils. Those who came to the Feroz Shah Kotla on Thursday witnessed an utter mismatch, with CSK drubbing this season's laughing stock by 86 runs to move up to fourth on the IPL 6 leaderboard. The tactic of keeping...
11:15 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Live updates from Game 24 of IPL season 6 between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings at Feroz shah Kotla. Battered and bruised after five consecutive losses, Delhi Daredevils will look to finally get a win under their belt when they take on the inconsistent Chennai Super Kings in game 24 of IPL 6 at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi on Thursday. Looking at the points table, curtains...
07:15 PM, Apr 18, 2013
A Chris Gayle special, a record hat-trick, a criminal no-ball and more in Cricketnext's review of the second week of the sixth season of the IPL. Innings of the week Who else, but Chris Gayle? The West Indian blaster scored his second unbeaten half-century of IPL 6 to down defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in Bangalore last Thursday. It was pure belligerence from Gayle, who larruped nine sixes in an...
08:25 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni skipped training as the Chennai Super Kings players had their customary net session on "really slow practice wickets" as some of the players found out. The CSK players practised in two batches and some of them weren't really amused to find that the practice wickets laid out for net sessions were really slow in nature. "This is not a conducive wicket for having a...
08:17 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Chennai: Chennai Super Kings openers' failure to provide the side starts consistently has irked batsman Subramaniam Badrinath, who says the "issue needs to be addressed" soon. Barring the 10-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab, the Chennai openers -- Murali Vijay and Michael Hussey have failed to live upto the expectations, though the Australian was not part of the XI that lost to Pune Warriors last night. "The openers are not...
04:07 PM, Apr 16, 2013
A look back at the first two weeks of the IPL and what has been notable about it, in particular the way teams have been dependent on certain individuals. Chris Gayle scoring = RCB winning Ravi Rampaul and R Vinay Kumar can say otherwise, but Royal Challengers Bangalore's success is interlinked with Chris Gayle. The big-hitting West Indian has clicked big time in two of RCB's four matches, and both...
01:14 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Chennai: Clutch innings from two Australian imports at either end of Pune Warriors 20 overs set up a match-winning total of 159 for 5, which was made to appear like a lot more for Chennai Super Kings against a superb catching performance. Aaron Finch took on a strong CSK bowling attack from the start, dominating an opening stand worth 96, and after a flurry of wickets it was Steven Smith's...
11:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Live updates from the Game 19 of the IPL 6 between Chennai Super Kings and Pune Warriors played at Chennai. Pune Warriors India are without their regular slipper Angelo Mathews who is sitting out due to political pressure in southern India in protest over the war crimes in Sri Lanka bars the islanders from playing in Chennai and Yuvraj is unlikely to take the field . CSK, though, are still...
07:20 PM, Apr 15, 2013
