SRH vs CSK, 34th match at Chennai, IPL, Apr 25 2013 - Match Result

I had hoped for a close game at the start of it and that's exactly what we have got. With Chennai. it's usually that way! So that's it then, will be back for tomorrow's game too. Suneer Chowdhary signing off for the evening, ciao!

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Abhi: "Hey. That delivery on 19.3 was a wide by the umpire! Shouldnt dhoni be on 63* and not 67*?" That came off Dhoni's bat, he signalled it to the ump.

Rachit: "@Mehr: dont forget dropping of an in-form Morne Morkel by DD against CSK for Play-offs, CSK make captains dearly pay for those, don't they? PS: this can be my 50th comment for the day which goes unpublished."

Presentation

Cameron White: Was a good total in the end, bit poor in the first six overs but did well in the last five. The loss was disappointing, to get ourselves in this position and lose was bad too. There were a few areas we were off, which we need to improve for the game day after tomorrow. You need to learn from your mistakes and make better players.

MS Dhoni, who is also the man of the match: I think we started off well with the ball but gave away too many runs in the death. Chasing 160 becomes difficult, the bowlers did not do well. Got off to a good start with the bat but slowed down in the middle and lost wickets. Leggies bowled well but the wicket also got slower. Playing like this is not only dependent on me, it also depends on the batsman at the other end, Bravo, for instance played a maiden. Difficult to gauge how many is too many, cannot have a fixed game plan, there is no formula like Duckworth-Lewis. I was sure that I had nicked the ball (second last ball) and hence told the umpire that it's happened. The performance of the side has been good but as we get to the latter stage, we need to raise our games. Bowlers need to start bowling yorkers, becomes critical towards the end of the tournament, they need to realise that it's the one recipe that does not go wrong.

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Hyderabad had their chance in this game. They did well to get to 159. They did well to restrict the opposition to 132 in 18 overs and then Dhoni took over. A four and a six off Steyn and then a strange decision to bowl Reddy last over that costs them the game. Of course, Dhoni's the man, as he always is for the Super Kings. 67 from 37 after he started off so slowly. Hats off.

Chennai coach Stephen Fleming thinks his side did not deserve to win this.

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vhg: "and that's where you miss perera"

Vibhor Agarwal: "@Tango Pango: That's one of the reasons why you are not Dhoni."

Naresh Damera: "There were 1000 reasons for Karna's death. But there are two reasons SRH lost this match. Poor Captaincy and Mishra dropped catch. What a waste!!"

Srikanth: "There you go, Aashish.R is no Sachin and who ever played that day against Sachin is not Dhoni!!!"

Taha: "Yet another case of a hero with the bat becoming a villain with the ball." Tad harsh to call him that, not his fault that he was given the ball in such a pressure situation having not bowled the entire game.

Mehr: "that should be labeled as worst decision by any captain in IPL, Dhoni could have scored off from any bowler but you are called best bowling side of tourny and you hand ball to part timer & that against well settled Dhoni?? I wish these 2 points hurts them so everyone realizes how imp it was!"

Tango Pango: "How is Dhoni still cool? The way Bravo and Sir played, I'd have been fuming if I was him."

Nope, it's not Sammy. It's Reddy, bowling his first over this match. Interesting move this. Reminds me of Tendulkar, Hero Cup, South Africa, 1993.

The game's very much on. On other nights I would have called Hyderabad favourites given what they have done in this tournament. But this is Chennai and this is Dhoni and he's done a lot before to allow me to say such a thing.

Srinivas Goud: "@babzandu, do u ever question why it is named "Mount Everest?". Consider fortunate u r living in the same world as Sir Jadeja;)"

SK: "@babazandu: you haven't seen MSD's tweet, God thought Rajini has become old, so he created SIR jadeja"

Anupam: "A player with the batting abilities of Bradman, bowling of Murlidharan+Warne and fielding ability of Rhodes, not to mention the captaincy skills of Imran Khan and the wicket keeping ability of Adam Gilchrist, you have to call him SIR!!"

Steyn to bowl the 19th. Lot of changes in the field.

At the expense of my mail box being bombarded with tons of responses, babazandu: "Why is Jadega called Sir Ravindra Jadeja ?"

Hassan: "Pulled and caught and not danced this time, first bravo including dismissal without a dance tonight :D"

Ravindrasinh Jadeja comes in.

Ishant Sharma comes on now.