Topic: IPL 2009 - Match Thread 12 (CSK vs KKR) (Read 1207 times)

cricket_news · « **on:** April 24, 2009, 06:00:22 PM »

Tied teams look to avenge tough defeats
24 April 2009, 5:51 pm

Match facts

April 25, 2009

Start time 16.45pm (14.45GMT)

Big Picture

Chris Gayle has a week left in South Africa, and Kolkata will hope he improves on the form shown so far

© AFP

Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders are level on points, having won one and lost two out of three games. Chennai's two losses, however, have come against strong opposition - Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils - while Kolkata were thrashed by Bangalore Royal Challengers and lost in the Super Over to Rajasthan Royals after the match ended in a tie.

Chennai will remain upbeat about their form despite the two defeats. They were without allrounder Albie Morkel for the first loss against Mumbai and were blitzed by AB de Villiers in the match against Delhi. They will also take heart from their batsmen, who challenged Delhi's imposing score of 189. However, the batting and bowling line-up has taken a hit with Andrew Flintoff being ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury.

Kolkata will have to forget their gut-wrenching loss against Rajasthan quickly and gear up for their toughest opponents of the tournament so far. They've relied on Chris Gayle and Sourav Ganguly to do the bulk of the scoring because Brendon McCullum and Brad Hodge haven't weighed in with significant contributions. Gayle leaves the IPL in a week's time so Kolkata will want to notch up as many wins as they can while he's in South Africa.

Form guide

Chennai: Matthew Hayden is the tournament's highest run-scorer with 166 runs at a strike-rate of 171 and has given his team excellent starts in the last two games.

Kolkata: Gayle has given his team powerful starts so far but Kolkata would want him to make a big contribution. The middle-order has been held together by Ganguly, who's doing a fine job of proving he's not unsuited to the Twenty20 format.

Watch out for

Gayle and McCullum v Chennai's new-ball attack: L Balaji and Manpreet Gony aren't the most fearsome new-ball bowlers in the tournament but they've managed to give Chennai an early breakthrough against both Bangalore and Delhi. They'll be gunning for Kolkata's openers, who are arguably the team's best batsmen.

Team news

Chennai are without Flintoff for the rest of the tournament, and while they have a ready bowling replacement in Makhaya Ntini, the hole left in the batting line-up will be harder to fill. They might consider playing Jacob Oram or the Sri Lankan allrounder Thilan Thushara.

Chennai: 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 5 Albie Morkel, 6 Jacob Oram/Thilan Thushara, 7 S Badrinath, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 L Balaji, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

Kolkata ran Rajasthan extremely close in their previous game and there are no obvious changes to their team.

Kolkata: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Brendon McCullum (capt/wk), 3 Laxmi Shukla, 4 Brad Hodge, 5 Sourav Ganguly, 6 Sanjay Bangar, 7 Yashpal Singh, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Ajantha Mendis, 11 Anureet Singh.

Head-to-head record

Hayden scored 70 off 49 balls to lead Chennai to a nine-wicket victory against Kolkata at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in 2008. The match at Eden Gardens was much closer with Chennai winning by three runs according to the D/L method.

George Binoy is a senior sub-editor at Cricinfo

Source: India news from Cricinfo

ramshorns · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2009, 06:26:45 PM »

This is what I would do if I were CSK to beat the KKR team.

Flintoff gone so no sweat. Get Makhaya Ntini in the line up and unleash him in these conditions against the KKR line up.

So 6 batters and 5 bowlers with MSD/PP keeping. Please send Badri at 4. That will make it a solid top 6 line up and Jogi at 7. That should help you handle KKR bowling that is not a threat with Ganguly lending them a good hand there.

For KKR the only hope is Gayle/McCullum going bersek at the top and hope SG continue with his the efforts from yesterday and for Hodge to consolidate. Beyond that the KKR line up has no class or a Yusuf Pathan in the middle order.

gouravk · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2009, 10:59:27 PM »

if we dont win this im going to bang my head 50 times

inoc · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2009, 11:45:10 PM »

Quote from: gouravk on April 24, 2009, 10:59:27 PM

if we dont win this im going to bang my head 50 times

better to head bang to led zeppelin.

dextrous · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2009, 01:04:33 AM »

dhoni vs ganguly...wah wah!

justforkix · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:30:49 AM »

Quote from: ramshorns on April 24, 2009, 06:26:45 PM

This is what I would do if I were CSK to beat the KKR team.

Flintoff gone so no sweat. Get Makhaya Ntini in the line up and unleash him in these conditions against the KKR line up.

So 6 batters and 5 bowlers with MSD/PP keeping. Please send Badri at 4. That will make it a solid top 6 line up and Jogi at 7. That should help you handle KKR bowling that is not a threat with Ganguly lending them a good hand there.

Jogi is nowhere close to a batsman and neither is Gony, Balaji, Murali, and Ntini. Playing with just 6 batsman and no lower order bats makes the lineup weak and batters cannot go for their shots.

Albe being a bowler, the 5th bowling option can be shared between Oram and Albe easily. And I would play Ashwin instead of Jogi any day. Ashwin will be a handful in these worn out pitches.

My lineup will be Hayden, Vijay, Raina, Badri, MSD, Albe, Oram, Ashwin, Gony, Balaji, Murali.

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #6 on:** April 25, 2009, 06:41:20 AM »

We ( CSK.....nopes, ....Punjab XI....oops..KKR) must win this match!

broadbat · « **Reply #7 on:** April 25, 2009, 06:52:46 AM »

CSK should ensure that Albie gets at least 10 overs to bat.

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #8 on:** April 25, 2009, 06:58:02 AM »

Quote from: broadbat on April 25, 2009, 06:52:46 AM

CSK should ensure that Albie gets at least 10 overs to bat.

Almighty must ensure that Albie continues in the same form, that he has displayed so far in the tournament!

LosingNow · « **Reply #9 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:22:34 PM »

Raining .. puddles/pools of water everywhere. Looks like a washout or shortened match at best

Cover Point · « **Reply #10 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:25:29 PM »

well covers coming off

Cover Point · « **Reply #11 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:40:04 PM »

looks like its a great game for KKR. It may get washed out. Great way for them to get a point

poondu · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:40:26 PM »

Looks like KKR might escape because of rain..

LosingNow · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:40:26 PM »

Quote from: Cover Point on April 25, 2009, 02:25:29 PM

well covers coming off

At least 2 hours to prepare the ground once the drizzle stops. Players still in the hotel. Looks like a washout to me

dextrous · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:40:43 PM »

benson says it might start in 2 hours

LosingNow · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:40:46 PM »

Quote from: poondu on April 25, 2009, 02:40:26 PM

Looks like KKR might escape because of rain..

Yep..

dave_dj · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2009, 05:46:32 PM »

Match called off - at least KKR got a point.

cricket_news · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2009, 07:00:22 PM »

Rain forces abandonment without any play
25 April 2009, 5:40 pm

Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings - Match abandoned without a ball bowled

Persistent Cape Town rains made sure that Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders didn't get onto the park for their match. The rain was intermittent all day, and the umpires decided to call it off close to three hours after the scheduled start. Both teams will now share a point.

Incidentally this is the third IPL game to be washed out without a ball being bowled. The first was at the Feroz Shah Kotla between the hosts Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata last May, and the second was between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians earlier this season.

Chennai and Kolkata would have started the game level at two points, and they now have three points each, from four matches each.

Source: India news from Cricinfo

Cover Point · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2009, 11:48:25 PM »

My game tomorrow got rained out too.

LosingNow · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2009, 12:16:09 AM »

Quote from: Cover Point on April 25, 2009, 11:48:25 PM

My game tomorrow got rained out too.

Chicago or IPL?

As per weather forecasts, both sunday games appear to be in jeopardy

dextrous · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2009, 03:15:02 AM »

Quote from: Cover Point on April 25, 2009, 11:48:25 PM

My game tomorrow got rained out too.

Thank you for this bit of news. Our lives would be incomplete without knowning what transpired in Chicago's veteran cricket league which has produced many fine cricketers such as yourself. But perhaps the less enamored CP fangroup, of which there are many in the DG, will rejoice in waking up to a non-Ganguly related post and will eagerly await more of the same, even if it is breaking news from Chicago although one suspects that these posts are much more likely to have regional parochialism.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2009, 05:53:41 AM »

CSK unlucky to miss out on 2 points here.

On team composition, I see nothing wrong with what PP has done so far. I would bring Vijay in for Badri (remember some over run a ball scores from him from some local matches).

Line up should be:

Parthiv
Hayden
MSD
Raina
Morkel
Vijay
Jogi
Gony
Balaji
Ntini
Murali

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #22 on:** April 26, 2009, 07:45:50 AM »

KKR is in a soup now.....missing out on 2 solid points is not good news!

poondu · « **Reply #23 on:** April 26, 2009, 01:17:23 PM »

Quote from: Blwe_torch on April 26, 2009, 07:45:50 AM

KKR is in a soup now.....missing out on 2 solid points is not good news!

LOL.... Good Joke...

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