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Time for Statistics
Posted on August 14th, 2009 No commentsAfter the long drama, Second Season of Indian Premier League closed with Royal Challengers emerging as the champions of Indian Premier League. With 495 runs and 18 dismissals, Adam Gilchrist of Deccan Chargers emerged as the Player of the Tournament. Mathew Hayden of Chennai Super Kings, who did splendid work with his bat, right from day one, scored a total of 572 runs and emerged as the player with most runs in the series. And RP Singh of Deccan Chargers who took 23 wickets, emerged as the player with most wickets.
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Its once again Hayden
Posted on June 19th, 2009 No commentsThe 47the match was between Chennai super kings vs. Mumbai Indians. This match was played at St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth. The toss was won by Mumbai Indians. Jayasurya gave a good opening of 30 runs in just 17 balls. Duminy made 62 runs in 54 balls and the team reached the score of 147 runs in 20 over with the loss of 5 wickets, the run rate of 7.35 runs per over. Chennai super kings opened the batting with Patel and Hayden. Hayden played well and made 60 runs, other batsmen in the team also contributed well for their team. With the loss of 3 wickets the team made a comfortable win. Hayden was given the man of the match award.
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Hayden does it again for Chennai
Posted on May 7th, 2009 No commentsChennai super kings faced the kings X1 Punjab on the 34th match played at Supersports Park Centurion. Chennai super kings won the toss and chose to bat first. Hayden played well for his 89 runs and Dhoni also made 56 runs in just 27 balls. With the loss of 3 wickets the team managed to score 185 runs with 10.27 runs per over. With the target of 187 runs per over Kings Punjab played well but failed to meet the asking run rate. Yuvraj Singh played well for 58 runs and Jayewardene for 44 runs in 25 balls.174 runs in 18 over is all that they could make. Hence the Super kings won by 12 runs by D/L method. The player of the match was given to Hayden for his brilliant stroke with 6 sixes and 8 fours.
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Hayden Comes for the rescue
Posted on March 16th, 2009 No commentsThe 16th match of the Indian premier league was between Chennai Super kings vs. Deccan Chargers. Deccan chargers won the toss and elected to field first. For the Chennai Super Kings Patel and Hayden opened the innings. Patel lost his wicket in his second ball. Hayden and Raina started their natural game. Raina lost his wicket to Sharma and made 25 runs. Dhoni made 22 runs. Oram played well for his 41 runs. Hayden also scored 49 runs. They set the target about 8.25 runs per over. it was a gettable score for the Deccan chargers. The opener Gilchrist played well scoring 44 runs in 19 balls, Gibbs also played well with 69 runs in just 56 balls. it was clean sweep by the Deccan chargers and they reached the score in style. SM Shoaib was the debut player for Deccan chargers and HH Gibbs took was given the man of the match title.