Deccan Chargers defeat Chennai Super Kings in Style – win by 6 wickets
27th April Cricket Coverage: Adam Gilchrist is the happiest man in winning 4 in a row as Captain of the Deccan Chargers team. This was the team trailing as the last of the 8 teams last year under the captaincy of VVS Laxman. The match was full of fire works from batsman of both the Teams.
Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field. Chennai Super Kings opened the Innings with Parthiv Patel and Hyden. Patel was out for a duck in the very first over by Edwards. Hyden and Raina fired all over the field with fours and sixes. Rohit Sharma dismissed Raina (25) and Ohja in one over sent out Dhoni (22) and Hyden (49). Jacob Oram shined with his bat and hit 4-4-6-1 in one over of Shoaib Ahmed. He was not out at 41 at the end of the Innings. Chennai Super Kings made a hefty 165/6.
Chasing this Adam Gilchrist and Gibbs thundered 48 runs in just 3 overs. The fastest 50 in all the IPL matches came through their blades in 4 overs. Gibbs continued his fireworks to claim the win with an unbeaten 69, to achieve 169/4 in 19.3 overs.
Gibbs was befittingly awarded the Man of the Match.
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