Bangalore XI vs Chennai XI 28th Match at Chennai, 31 Mar, 2010

Toss: Royal Challengers Bangalore, who chose to bat first
Bangalore XI 161/4 (20)
Chennai XI 162/5 (18.5)
Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match: Murali Vijay
  • Chandrasekar Ganapathy 0 * (0)
  • Suresh Raina 40 * (34)

Over 17.4: Single. JH Kallis to S Badrinath, pitched up delivery, drags his drive onto the pad and steals a single from point. 18 from 14

Over 17.6: Single. JH Kallis to S Badrinath, short and rising delivery, steers it down to thirdman for a single. CSK need 16 more runs to win from 12 balls.

Over 18.1: Single. R Vinay Kumar to S Badrinath, pitched up delivery, flicks it across to long on for a single. 15 from 11

Over 18.3: Beaten! R Vinay Kumar to S Badrinath, bangs it short, makes room for a cut and is beaten by the extra bounce. 14 from 9

Over 18.4: Boundary! R Vinay Kumar to S Badrinath, short of length delivery, shuffles across and paddles it fine past the keeper for a boundary! 10 from 8

Over 18.5: He is Caught! R Vinay Kumar to S Badrinath, bangs it short, makes room and top edges his big pull shot towards squareleg. Uthappa, the keeper runs towards the ball and takes the catch safely with his gloves. 10 from 7

Over 18.6: No ball + Two runs. R Vinay Kumar to SK Raina, pitched up delivery, drives it off the frontfoot towards covers.

Over 18.6: Boundary! R Vinay Kumar to SK Raina, pitched up delivery, plays an off drive off the frontfoot between mid off and the bowler.

Chennai Super Kings win by five wickets with an over to spare. Well good bowling from left arm spinner Shadabh Jakati which helped CSK to restrict RCB to 161. The CSK chase got going because of a sweetly struck 78 from 39 balls from Murali Vijay.