Chennai Super Kings innings:
15th over: 115 for 0. Ganguly puts down another one. Ganguly runs back and tries to take it over his head but ends up sticking one hand out and drops it and adding insult to injury Badrinath smashes the bowler for three consecutive boundaries to bring up his fifty in the process. Two boundaries over square leg and one through the third man makes it fifteen from the over.
14th over: 100 for 0. Badrinath comes down the track off first ball off Kartik's over but misses the ball all ends up but somehow Uthappa misses the ball as well and chance of stumping goes begging. Meanwhile, du Plessis smashes his fourth ball for a huge six over the long-on.
13th over: 89 for 0. du Plessis survived a run out scare after scoring his second fifty of the tournament. Drama in this over as there's an appeal for a run out and it goes to the third umpire. du Plessis's bat looks to be on line but third umpire makes a shocker of a decision and gives a benefit of a doubt to the batsman.
12th over: 83 for 0. Marlon Samuels is back into the attack and after giving three singles from the first three, he bowls a quicker one that misses everything and goes for four byes and du Plessis hits the fifth ball for a two and picks a single off the last ball.
11th over: 74 for 0. Murali Kartik is back into the attack and gives away single from every delivery. Pune is doing a right thing to keep the run rate in check but they need wickets.
10th over: 68 for 0. Ashish Nehra is back into the attack and du Plessis is bit lucky once again as an uppish shot to mid wicket just falls short of the skipper Sourav Ganguly. Meanwhile, an excellent over by Nehra.
9th over: 64 for 0. du Plessis is getting back to his groove. After two singles from three balls, Plessis dances down the track and hits Rahul Sharma for a brilliant four through extra cover and follows it up with a two and a single.
8th over: 55 for 0. Angelo Mathews, right-arm medium, comes into the attack and Badrinath welcomes him with a cheeky paddle sweep that goes for a four and another brilliant shot over the midwicket boundary off the last ball also goes for a four. Twelve runs comes from Mathews' first over.
7th over: 43 for 0. Rahul Sharma, right-arm legspinner, comes into the attack and bowls a lovely first over. He is not allowing batsmen to cut loose and varies his line and length throughout the over. Gives away just one single from the over.
6th over: 42 for 0. du Plessis cuts loose as he break the shackles and hits Bhuvneshwar Kumar for a huge six over the long-on boundary off the third ball and then dances down the track and hits fantastic shot between extra cover and long-off boundary. An expensive over for Pune as 14 runs comes of it.
5th over: 28 for 0. Marlon Samuels, right-arm offspinner, comes into the attack and Badrinath welcomes him with two back-to-back boundaries. First one through over the mid-off fielder and second one a brilliant cut shot through backward point for four. Then duo manages to pick three singles from the rest of the over.
4th over: 17 for 0. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, comes into the attack and bowls a decent first over although eight runs comes of it. The bowlers is bit unlucky as he should have got du Plessis, Kartik drops a tough chance in the first slip off the fifth ball and then edge of the last ball goes for a four.
3rd over: 9 for 0. Badrinath is getting restless in the middle as Kartik bowls anther fantastic over. He troubles Badrinath throughout the over with his gentle spin. Just one from the over. Good start by Pune bowlers.
2nd over: 8 for 0. Ashish Nehra, left-arm fast medium, shares the new ball and bowls a superb over. He keeps it tight as he starts with four dot balls and two singles to follow it in the fifth and sixth.
1st over: 6 for 0. du Plessis and Badrinath are at the crease for Chennai Super Kings. Murali Kartik opens the bowling for Pune Warriors India. Six runs comes from the over that includes one boundary by Badrinath between the cover and point region.
7.30 p.m. Pune Warriors India skipper Sourav Ganguly wins the toss and elects to field in the 24th match of the Indian Premier League against Chennai Super Kings on Thursday at the Chepauk in Chennai.
Pune Warriors have made once change to their team as Ashok Dinda is out and Murali Kartik comes in. On the other hand Chennai Super Kings have made three changes to the playing XI with Doug Bollinger, Wriddhiman Saha, and Shadab Jakati comes in for Albie Morkel, Yo Mahesh and Murali Vijay.
Teams:
Chennai Super Kings: Faf du Plessis, Wriddhiman Saha, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w/c), Dwayne Bravo, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Doug Bollinger
Pune Warriors: Jesse Ryder, Robin Uthappa(w), Sourav Ganguly(c), Marlon Samuels, Angelo Mathews, Steven Smith, Manish Pandey, Murali Kartik, Rahul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra
7.15 p.m. Welcome to the 24th match of the IPL, and this one's between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Pune Warriors Indian here at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai.
The previous match between these two teams went down to the wire, with Pune eventually coming out on top in a last-over finish. Pune lie third in the table with three wins and two losses, while Chennai are on sixth with two wins and three defeats.
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