Chennai Super Kings VS Rajasthan Royals

Chennai Super Kings VS Rajasthan Royals - Analysis

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

May 4, 2011.

Points

Team	Matches	Won	Lost	Points	NRR	Place
CSK	8	5	3	10	+0.247	4th
RR	9	5	3(1 No Result)	11	-0.145	3rd

Team Vs Team

Matches	CSK	RR	Tie/No Result
7	3	4	0

Teams

TEAM NAME	CSK	RR
Strength	Great Batting Line Up, Spin Bowlers	Great All-Rounders
Weakness	Disappointing Vijay, Dhoni’s Poor Wicket Keeping. Wrong player selection(like A Srikkanth)	Top-Order Collapse.
Opportunities	To move into top of the points table.	To move into First place of the points table.
Threats	S Watson(in Fantastic Form),J Botha	A Morkel, S Raina
Last 5 Matches	L,L,W,W,W	NR,L,W,W,W

Key Players

Chennai Super Kings

S Raina

Matches(IPL)	54
Innings	52
NO	9
Runs	1587
HS	98
Average	36.90
Strike Rate	141.57
50-100-0	0-11-1
4’s-6’s	137-67
Strength	Young Talent, Good fielder, Handy Off-Spinner.
Weakness	Inconsistency.
Last 5 Batting Performances	50,5,2,34*,59

Albie Morkel

Matches(IPL)	46
Innings	37
NO	14
Runs	591
HS	71
Average	25.69
Strike Rate	148.12
50-100-0	0-2-2
4’s-6’s	38-36
Strength	Great Hitter, Good Seamer.
Weakness	Expensive Bowler.
Last 5 Batting Performances	9*,3,0,DNP,19
Balls	964
Runs	1339
Wickets	51
Best Bowling	4-32
Average	26.37
Economy	8.31
Strike Rate	19.00
4W-5W	1-0
Last 5 Bowling Performances	0-17,1-19,3-29,DNP,3-38

R Ashwin

Matches	23
Innings	23
Balls	504
Runs	520
Wickets	22
Best Bowling	3-16
Average	23.63
Economy	6.19
Strike Rate	22.09
4W-5W	0-0
Strength	Carom Ball
Weakness	Little bit of expensive.
Last 5 Bowling Performances	2-31,0-26,2-19,1-29,0-23

Rajasthan Royals

A Menaria

Matches(IPL)	8
Innings	6
NO	1
Runs	137
HS	34
Average	27.40
Strike Rate	130.47
50-100-0	0-0-1
4’s-6’s	6-9
Strength	Good batsmen, Handy Spinner.
Weakness	Inexperienced.
Last 5 Batting Performances	NO,34,DNB,4*,29

J Botha

Matches	74
Innings	53
NO	24
Runs	648
HS	67*
Average	22.34
Strike Rate	115.71
50-100-0	0-1-3
4’s-6’s	50-13
Strength	Pinch Hitter, Good Spinner.
Weakness	Controversial Bowler.
Last 5 Batting Performances	NO,DNP,14*,45,12
Balls	1590
Runs	1592
Wickets	68
Best Bowling	4-19
Average	23.41
Economy	6.01
Strike Rate	23.3
4W-5W	1-0
Last 5 Bowling Performances	NO,DNP,1-19,3-6,1-23

Players to Watch….

D Bollinger

                        Australian SpeedStar who can bowl well at the depth overs.He is one of the match winners of CSK.

N Doshi

                        An England county spinner who is the son of former Indian bowler  Duleep Doshi. He was played for surrey, Derbyshire, Buckinghamshire, Saurashtra. 

Trivia

Ø      Suresh Raina is the only batsman with over 1500 IPL runs. MS Dhoni is ninth in the list with 1191 runs, while Rahul Dravid is 13th with 1074

Ø      The last time these two teams played in Chennai, they scored a combined 469 runs in 40 overs - the highest aggregate in any single IPL game.

Once Upon a Time…

Oram (CSK---> RR)

Mic Testing 1...2...3...

Shane Warne - "I am happy with the way we fought back. We play well in our home conditions and we showed that today. If we play with the same intensity we showed today, we will get far into the tournament."

Ashok Menaria - "Once you have dismissed Sachin, you just develop a certain confidence. Any other wicket looks quite ordinary."

Pitch Conditions

Ø      Batting Paradise.

Ø      Chasing is Very tough under lights.

My Predictions…

Playing XI

CSK
My XI	Dhoni’s XI
M Hussey(BAT)	M Hussey(BAT)
M Vijay(BAT)	M Vijay(BAT)
S Raina(BAT)	S Raina(BAT)
S Badrinath(BAT)	S Badrinath(BAT)
MS Dhoni(WK)	MS Dhoni(WK)
A Mukund(BAT)	A Srikkanth(BAT)
A Morkel(ALL)	A Morkel(ALL)
R Ashwin(BOW)	R Ashwin(BOW)
S Jakati(BOW)	S Jakati(BOW)
S Randiv(BOW)	S Randiv(BOW)
D Bollinger(BOW)	D Bollinger(BOW)
RR
My XI	Warne’s XI
S Watson(ALL)	S Watson(ALL)
R Dravid(BAT)	R Dravid(BAT)
J Botha(ALL)	J Botha(ALL)
A Rahane(BAT)	A Rahane(BAT)
R Taylor(BAT)	R Taylor(BAT)
A Menaria(BAT)	A Menaria(BAT)
S Binny(ALL)	S Binny(ALL)
D Yagnik(WK)	D Yagnik(WK)
S Warne(BOW)	S Warne(BOW)
S Trivedi(BOW)	S Trivedi(BOW)
N Doshi(BOW)	N Doshi(BOW)

Result

(1)               If CSK bats first

CSK	180-4(20)
RR	159-8(20)

(2)               If RR bats first

RR	163-7(20)
CSK	154-8(20)

Man of the Match

(1)       If CSK wins

                              S Raina or A Morkel

(2)               If RR wins

J Botha or N Doshi

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