Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings Highlights

by hiteshb | April 20, 2009 at 03:25 am

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Bangalore: Dravid and Anil Kumble were the obvious form players from the first game, but all the Bangalore bowlers did their jobs. The onus is now on the batsmen to adapt to the conditions and ensure that a 17 for 3 situation doesn't happen again.

Chennai: Hayden didn't show much rustiness, while MS Dhoni fought hard towards the end, but the rest of the batting needs to step up. The bowling was inconsistent too, with Andrew Flintoff letting the team down in the final overs.

Watch out for

Steyn v Hayden: Dale Steyn had a hand to play in hastening Hayden's retirement, dismissing him three times for 58 runs in 107 deliveries in the Test series in Australia. Hayden will want some revenge, and he'll have a fair chance in a format that is far more loaded in favour of batsmen.

Friendly fire

Pietersen v Flintoff: The two England big guns will be pitted against each other, and expect sparks to fly when Flintoff comes racing in to bowl to Kevin Pietersen.

Ground Reality and Pitch:

Officially known as the 'Sahara Oval', the St George's Park is known to be home to one of the oldest cricket clubs in South Africa, the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club.

Known for its windy conditions, the St George's Park generally tends to favour the seamers towards the start. However, batsmen have found the conditions easy once they get their feet moving. It has a seating capacity of 19,000.

Team news

Bangalore have little reason to change the combination that worked the magic against Rajasthan: the bowling attack was fabulous, and the batting, while disappointing, has too much class at the top to warrant a change after one failure.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Robin Uthappa (wk), 3 Ross Taylor, 4 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 5 Rahul Dravid, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Balachandra Akhil, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 R Vinay Kumar, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Chennai will probably include Albie Morkel for the unimpressive Jacob Oram, while Muttiah Muralitharan could come in to beef up the bowling attack.

Chennai Super Kings (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Andrew Flintoff, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 S Badrinath, 7 Albie Morkel, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Manpreet Gony, 10 L Balaji, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

Head-to-head record

The two teams split the matches they played against each other last season, and the margins were almost identical too: Chennai won the first won game by 13 runs, while Bangalore won by a 14-run margin in the return clash.

Numbers Game:

9 - Albie Morkel's rank in terms of strike rate in Twenty20 internationals, amongst batsmen who have at least 250 runs. Morkel's strike rate is 139.90

11.19 - the difference in strike rates between Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli in Twenty20 matches. Dravid's is the higher strike rate 126.47 to 115.28

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