Chennai Super kings Become Champions of CLT 2014

Today Chennai Super Kings Beat Kolkata Knight Riders in Champions League T20 2014 season. Suresh Raina scored centaury on just 59 balls. Chennai Super Kings chased target of 181 on loss of just 2 wickets. Dhoni launched six to make his side winner of Champions League for second time.

Earlier KKR scored 180 runs in 20 overs of first innings of Final. Uthappa and Gambir provided a solid start of 91 runs in 10.5 overs, Uthappa was first to go, he scored 39 runs of 32 balls, his innings powered by 4 boudnaries and a sixer. Gambhir’s contribution in KKR innings was 80 runs, he used just 52 deliveries including 7 boundaries and 3 sixes.

Despite perfect start, KKR can’t maintain the pace, rest of batsmen threw their wicket very cheaply. Hero of Semi Final for KKR picked up on 1 by Negi. Manesh Pnadey scored 32 while Yousaf Pathan remained not out on 20.

ten Doeschate and Yaduv failed score even a single match. Andre Russell scored 2 runs. P Negi took 5 wickets in his quota of 4 overs. For his fiver, he gave just 22 runs.

In response, Chennai Super Kings lost Smith earlier, Score board was showing only 9 runs. After loss of Smith, KKR’s bowler failed to tighten the run rate, especially Raina charged KKR’s bowler with his aggressive shots.

Raina scored fifty on just 27 balls including 3 boundaries and 4 sixers. Raina was dropped on 88 by Yousaf Pathan on his own bowling.

KKR really missed their main bowler Sunil Narine. KKR’s bowler failed to pressurize Dhoni XI during any stage of match. At the end, Chennai chased the target 9 deliveries before without any hurdle.