Chennai Super Kings beat
Mumbai Indians by 22 runs to win the final of the 2010 Indian Premier League (IPL). Chennai posted 168 for five, restricted Mumbai to 146 for nine to win their maiden IPL title in the grand finale at the packed DY Patil Stadium.
Chennai Super Kings Suresh Raina unbeaten 57 was starred with the bat, ball and in fielding department. Without any doubt he was adjudge man of the match.
M.S.Dhoni has achieved another milestone in his short career, it was he who started to turn the game in Chennai Super Kings favor when he came out to bat, his deputy Suresh Raina capitalized on two dropped catches to score a crucial fifty in the big IPL final to post 168/5 in their 20 overs.
Mumbai Indians started their run chase very cautiously and let required run rate mount to more than 10 runs an over inside the 3rd over. However they have kept their wicket intact but it was always going to be tough for the batsman to follow and that’s what happened to them. Another blunder mistakes they have done by sending hard-hitting batsman K.Pollard way too late. Apart from Sachin Tendulkar (48 runs of 45 balls) and K.Pollard (27 runs of 10 balls) no batsmen able to get going and in the end Mumbai fell short by 22 runs.
Chennai Super Kings after winning the toss decided to bat first in the pressure game. However once again they have failed to get the start from big Mathew Hayden (17 runs of 31 balls) as per their liking and they were struggled so much that they get pass 50 runs mark in the 10th over. At 67/3 in the 12th over, it was now to S.Raina (57 runs of 35 balls) and M.S.Dhoni (22 runs of 15 balls) to guide Chennai Super Kings to fighting total.
Both played brilliantly by putting on crucial 72 run partnership of just 35 balls to guide Chennai Super Kings to comfortable position. S.Raina was also helped by two lives given by Zaheer Khan and D.Fernando when he was on 22 and 32.
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