IPL 7 Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals Report

37th match of IPL season 7 has been played between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at JMCA International Cricket Stadium, Ranchi. Chennai won the match by 5 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja for his all rounder performance declared man of the match. He picked up 2 wkts of 18 runs in his 4 overs and made 11 runs of 6 balls.

Earlier, Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat first. Rajasthan made experiment in opening pair and skipper Watson open inning with Ankit Sharma today. Both made good start for Rajasthan and added 60 runs for Rajasthan in 7.5 overs. Ankit Sharma departed scoring 30 runs. After that AM Rahane joined with Watson, but unfortunately got runs out scoring just 4 runs. KK Nair also failed today and made just 8 runs. In later overs Rajasthan could not excelerate well and managed to put 148 runs on board at the end of 20 overs. Skipper SR Wantson was top scorer made 51 runs of 36 balls.

Folowing target of 149 runs, Chennai lost BB McCullum (6 )and SK Raina (2) early. But, DR Smith bated well from top and made 44 runs of 35 balls before he lost wicket to cooper. Chennai also changed betting order and R Ashwin promoted in batting before Dhoni and RA Jadeja. F de Plessis and Ashwin played well in middle overs. R Ashwin made 14 runs before bowled by R Bhatia. F du Plessis also departed after good inning of 39 runs. Now MS Dhoni and RA Jadeja took the charge and won the match by 5 wickets when 2 balls spare to bowl.

Thus Chennai with 2 points rule the points table tally of IPL 7 and Rahasthan disappointed with 0 points. RA Jadeja declared man of the match for his all round performance.