World Current Events: Chennai Superkings win against Royal Challengers Bangalore

Sunday, April 17

Chennai Superkings win against Royal Challengers Bangalore

Michael Hussey began his 2011 IPL season by wading into Bangalore's attack in an innings that was reminiscent of his famous assault on Pakistan in the 2010 World Twenty20 semifinal. Chennai's muscular top-order played around him, to power their side to a match-winning score of 183. Bangalore's fielding effort was a rash of schoolboy errors, while their batting once again suffered from muddled thinking. They dropped Hussey twice, and messed up several regulation saves on the field. To make matters worse, their support bowlers bled 101 runs off nine overs, wasting the efforts of Zaheer Khan, Daniel Vettori and Virat Kohli, who bowled the remaining 11 for 82. And then their batsmen chased without intent to hand the game to Chennai on a platter