Indian Cricket Team Updates

Chennai Super Kings vs  Yorkshire  Statistical Highlights CLT20-2012: 25   Years 330 days – Suresh Raina’s age while captaining Chennai Super Kings for the first time in a CLT20 match. He became the youngest to captain a side in CLT20. Victoria’s Cameron White held the previous record at 26 years 64 days. (Mahela Udawatte captained Ruhuna in a CLT20 qualifier match at the age of 25 years 62 days). 22  Number of wickets taken by Doug Bollinger in CLT20; he equalled Lasith Malinga’s record for most wickets in CLT20 . 7  Number of batsmen in Chennai Super Kings who scored their runs at a strike-rate of 100 or more – highest in an innings in this edition of CLT20.  4  Number of batsmen to score two fifties in this edition of CLT20. Gary Ballance joined Jacques Rudolph (Titans), Gulam Bodi (Lions) and Azhar Mahmood (Auckland). 6  Number of Twenty20 games MS Dhoni has played as a non-captain. The other five were before he too...

Chennai Super Kings vs  Yorkshire  Match 17 Report CLT20-2012: The Chennai Super Kings finished their Karbonn CLT20 2012 campaign on a happy note after they beat Yorkshire by four wickets. After putting Yorkshire in to bat first, the IPL outfit restricted their opponents to 140 and then knocked off the required runs in 19 overs. Though the Chennai Super Kings lost the wickets of Faf du Plessis and Murali Vijay early in the run-chase, they recovered through a 48-run partnership between S Badrinath and Suresh Raina. The pair accumulated runs with ones and twos, apart from hitting the odd boundary and helped the momentum swing back in their team’s favour. At 74 for two at the end of 11 overs, the Chennai Super Kings certainly held the edge and it was their game to lose. However, against the run of play, Raina perished when he was beaten by a slower delivery from Oliver Hannon-Dalby and holed out to the man at deep cover; the left-hander hit only one boundary and o...