and he finishes the game with a six over deep midwicket, dragged shortish and he opens up in time to go through with the pull
KKR vs CSK, 26th match at Kolkata, IPL, Apr 20 2013 - Ball by Ball Commentary
CSK won by 4 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Time for RCB v RR. Hop over.
Jadeja is Man of the Match. Jadeja: "It was crucial for us to win this game. There was not enough time to think when I went in, I decided to see it and hit it. I tried to bowl slower in the air, which worked. I played few good shots for my team."
MS Dhoni: "We did not bat well, it is one area where we would like to be more consistent. They batted brilliantly first six overs, few wickets and run-outs brought us back. Bringing the spinners late helped us to rotate. People think it is a T20 game, you have to slog everything, it is not like that. There are two types of batsmen, one who don't think and go after everything, and others who plan and target bowlers. We want him [Jadeja] to be really comfortable in the dressing room. He is loving the part where we are calling him Sir, but it is the one from Hindi [meaning head] and not from English. I don't think he knows that."
Gautam Gambhir: "Some schoolboy errors to be honest. When you bat first, you cannot be 46 for 1 and then 91 for 8. The pitch gets better under lights. Both Senanayake and Narine did a fantastic job by taking it till the last over. We have not been professional enough and not been upto the mark. You cannot expect your bowlers to defend 119 on such a beautiful wicket."
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Arjun: "Gambhir calls this a beautiful wicket. #sigh" When you play spin so well ...
They brought it up to 50 off the final five, and found someone to do the job, yet again. And won with five balls to spare, Chennai Super Kings, the IPL rockstars
With this attack and this pitch, KKR shouldn't be losing any home game, but their batting woes are blunting the first two factors.
Narine gets the purple cap. Says 20 more runs would have helped
sundar: "I think CSK finds it insulting to chase down 6 an over. They deliberately jack up the RRR to 10 an over before they start the chase.."
Josh: "CSK owe this victory to Jadeja. 3 wickets in the KKR innings to prevent any rebuilding then this blistering riposte to see them over the line! MoM for me.."
Ravi: "If there is one team that can win even after reversing the batting order, it is CSK."
Two off six. Job done again. What a team
length ball on the pads, worked to deep square
driven in the air, couple of a bounces to long off
slow bouncer, Bravo's got on top of it and smoothly pulled it behind square leg
pushed to long off
dropped, Yusuf has gone for the catch at deep square leg as Jadeja pulls a short ball, low to his left, he's tumbled for it, but it's gone down, and also rolled for four, what a miss
lovely placement, high full toss from Kallis, Jadeja's slices it past extra cover, and the sweeper has no chance
17 off 12. Slow pitch. Slow bowlers. Slowly revving up CSK
fires in a low full toss that is drilled down to long off
straighter one, runs it to short third man
full on the pads, he misses with the bat, takes the leg bye
backs away and cuts an offbreak, to point
Jadeja has cleared front leg and murdered this offbreak from outside off straight and high over Narine
carrom ball punched down the ground
27 off 18. Normal business for CSK still
short and angled in, Jadeja has dragged it over and wide of short fine leg, again didn't look like it was clearing the man, but it had more than enough
huge moment, Hussey's picked out deep square leg, walked down the pitch to a slow length ball and paddled it straight to the fielder
short of a length and into the body, he adjusts to help it around to short fine
into the pads from round the stumps, rolls away behind square
low full toss pushed to extra cover
Jadeja charges out second ball, makes some room outside leg and slams a length ball high and into the straight boundary, didn't look like clearing the rope but did so comfortably in the end
40 off 24. Still familiar for CSK
slogs this length ball over midwicket now for a couple
Over 20 • CSK 124/6
CSK won by 4 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)