CSK v KKR Match Result - 2011 IPL 4 Season

World cup craze is not yet over another big cricket tournament starts yesterday with a grand opening ceremony. IPL 4 opening match between CSK & KKR was quite interesting till the last ball. Both the teams were played well with their efforts.

Match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai and Chennai skipper M.S Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. After a good opening start by Anirudha who scored 64 runs 55 balls. Chennai middle batsman not gave their best ends inning with 153 runs as Iqbal Abdullah bowled brilliantly took 1 wicket for 26 runs.

Now Kolkata Knight Riders also had a good start by openers Bisla and Kallis with 64 runs in just 9 overs. They lose some quick wickets as middle order at last they needed 9 runs in 1 crucial over but unfortunately they felt short by 2 runs, bowled by Southee.


Match Summary :-

Chennai Super Kings - 153/4 in 20 overs (Anirudha 64, I Abdullah 1-26)

Kolkata Knight Riders - 151/7 in 20 overs (Kallis 54, Raina 1-3)

Toss - Chennai Super Kings, who chose to bat

Man of the Match - Srikkanth Anirudha (Chennai Super Kings)

Result - Chennai Super Kings won by 2 runs

Points - Chennai Super Kings 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0


Chennai Super Kings : Murali Vijay, Abhinav Mukund, Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, MS Dhoni(w/c), Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tim Southee, Shadab Jakati, Doug Bollinger, Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh, Srikkanth Anirudha, Scott Styris, George Bailey, Dwayne Bravo, Ben Hilfenhaus, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Nuwan Kulasekara, Wriddhiman Saha, Sudeep Tyagi, Ganapathi Vignesh, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas.

Kolkata Knight Riders : Gautam Gambhir(c), Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Ryan ten Doeschate, Eoin Morgan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami(w), Laxmi Shukla, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Jaidev Unadkat, Iqbal Abdulla, Rajat Bhatia, Sarabjit Ladda, Manvinder Bisla, James Pattinson, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed.