Deciding to bat first, RR made 140 including 29 runs in the last 16 balls. Greame Smith was the top scorer with 30 off 33 balls. The other opener Naman Ojha was bowled in the third ball of the first over. Asnodkar and Smith put 53 runs for the 2nd wicket in 50 balls--a slow and steady innings. The RR last wickets at regular intervals after that.
The most dangerous batsman of RR, Yusuf Patha went for 7 in 11 balls. This might be one of the very few innings where his strike rate is less than 50!
Jakati and Muralitharan provided break through at right time to restrict RR. At the end of 10 overs, RR were 61 for 2 and added just 38 in the next 5 overs with the loss of 2 more wickets.
The last 5 overs saw 51 runs in which 29 runs came in the last 16 balls.
Dhoni termed the wicket as a spin track and had lot of turn. He said, from outside, it looked like easy to bat and easily won match, but it is not.
Though Vijay went for 10 runs in the last ball of the third over, the other opener and leading run scorer in 2009 Hayden stood his ground. This is one of his slow innings, which is understable.
Raina too failed with the bat adding just 13 runs. Then it was left to Hayden and Badrinath. The latter played with responsibility and played a vital role in CSK reaching the winning target with 10 balls remaining.
While Hayden missed the half-century by 2 runs, Badri remained not out on 59. Badri later said the tactics towards Warne was to play him out rather than trying to score big runs from his over.
Hayden and Badri added 89 runs 65 balls. Hayden came down the track of Warne but he bowled it too wide on the leg stump which Ojha collected it and removed the bails.
With new batsman Oram in the crease, CSK needed 15 in 19 balls. Badri's innings of 59 came in 41 balls with 9 fours and a six.
He was rightly given the man of the match!
Scoreboard:
Match # 37
Date: Saturday May 9, 2009
Teams: Chennai Super Kings v. Rajasthan Royals
Captains: Dhoni and Warne
Toss: RR, decided to bat
Venue: De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Result: CSK won by 7 wickets with 10 ball remaining
Points: CSK 2; RR 0
Man of the Match: Badrinath off CSK
Rajasthan Royals Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| G Smith | st Dhoni b Muralitharan | 30 | 33 | 2 | 0 |
| N Ojha | b A Morkel | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Asnodkar | lbw b Muralitharan | 26 | 25 | 3 | 1 |
| RA Jadeja | c Raina b Balaji | 27 | 19 | 3 | 1 |
| Y Pathan | c Oram b Jakati | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| Carseldine | Run Out (Balaji) | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| AS Raut | st Dhoni b Jakati | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Warne | Not Out | 21 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
| Harwood | Not Out | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 5, w 1, nb 1) | 7 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 7 wkts in 20 over | 140 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-1 (Naman Ojha, 0.3 ov.), 2-54 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 8.5 ov.), 3-75 (Graeme Smith, 12.2 ov.), 4-92 (Ravindra Jadeja, 14.1 ov.), 5-100 (Yusuf Pathan, 15.5 ov.), 6-104 (Lee Carseldine, 16.4 ov.), 7-111 (Abhishek Raut, 17.2 ov.)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| A Morkel | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| Tyagi | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Balaji | 3 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| Oram | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Muralitharan | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 |
| Jakati | 4 | 0 | 35 | 2 |
| Raina | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
Chennai Super Kings Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| M Vijay | lbw b Trivedi | 10 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Hayden | st Ojha b Warne | 48 | 44 | 4 | 1 |
| Raina | c Carseldine b A Singh | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| Badrinath | Not Out | 59 | 41 | 9 | 1 |
| Oram | Not Out | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 8) | 10 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 3 wkts in 18.2 overs | 141 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-19 (Murali Vijay, 2.6 ov.), 2-37 (Suresh Raina, 5.6 ov.), 3-126 (Matthew Hayden, 16.5 ov.)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Y Pathan | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| A Singh | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 |
| Trivedi | 3 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| Harwood | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Warne | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
| RA Jadeja | 2.2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
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