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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Super Kings’ night out against Knight Riders Bailing out Chahar, Harbhajan and Tahir set up an emphatic win for the hosts; Russell wages a lone battle for the side the batsmen! P.K. Ajith Kumar short but the bails refused to budge. Rahul was on 41 and Someone planning an adhe­ went on to make 55. Howev­ sive advertisement can take er, Super Kings won the inspiration from this IPL sea­ match by 22 runs. son. What with all those vi­ ’ suals of the ball hitting the win Royals here on Sun­ stumps, zing bails flashing, day was even more emphatic S. Dipak Ragav but just refusing to come off? (by eight ). It has happened thrice But, the game could have Kolkata Knight Riders had this season, within a week, been a little more interesting three matches of footage and in fact. The first was in Chen­ if opener had to a skipper from Chennai to nai when M.S. Dhoni got an depart in the fourth over, af­ learn from on how to play on inside edge off Jofra Archer ter playing a slow­turning Chepauk but the bails stayed intact onto the stumps. . But its top­order bat­ despite the ball hitting mid­ Kolkata was 37 for no smen, in their infinite wis­ dle and leg stumps. wicket at the time, with Lynn dom, decided that playing Dhoni hadn’t opened his on 13. The Australian went across the line was a prudent account and Chennai Super on to make 50 and put on a strategy. Kings was 28 for three. Cap­ match­winning 91 for the The : the visitors tain Cool went on to make 75 opening wicket. were reduced to 108 for nine and led his team to “It is already tough on and an eight­run win over Rajas­ bowlers in the T20 format,” chased it down with ease, to than Royals. Royals Ajinkya Ra­ go to the top of the table, at “It would have been game hane said at the post­match the M.A. Chidambaram Sta­ over for Chennai,” Archer press conference. “In such dium here on Tuesday. This told The Hindu. “Only the situations, I feel those balls was Super Kings’ fourth win second time such a thing has could be called dead.” in as many matches at home happened to me.” Former captain in IPL­12. went a step Stubborn further. “If the bails flash… it Poor shot selection In the second incident, Dho­ has got to be out,” he said in Asked to take strike, KKR lost ni was at the receiving end. a panel discussion after the its way right in the first over. Against Kings XI Punjab his match. “That is got to be

Deepak Chahar trapped Dream start: broke the back of the Knight Riders line­up, picking up three top­order wickets.* B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM direct hit caught K.L. Rahul where the line is.” Chris Lynn leg­before when the batsman tried to pull a vious swashbuckling efforts SCOREBOARD SUPER KINGS VS KNIGHT RIDERS length . this season. and then fell The West Indian made an KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS 4­0­15­2, Jadeja 4­0­17­1, to similar shots, both caught unbeaten 50 off 44 balls Chris Lynn lbw b Chahar 0 Kuggeleijn 4­0­34­0, Tahir while pulling the seamer and (5x4, 3x6) but struggled to (5b), c Chahar b 4­0­21­2. finding the fielder. find his timing and also Harbhajan 6 (5b), Robin CHENNAI SUPER KINGS Skipper seemed to have an issue with Uthappa c Jadhav b Chahar 11 c Chawla b looked comfortable during his left wrist, leaving him (9b, 2x4), Nitish Rana c Rayudu Narine 17 (9b, 2x4, 1x6), Faf du his brief stay, but the first wincing in pain and hamper­ b Chahar 0 (3b), Dinesh Karthik Plessis (not out) 43 (45b, 3x4), time he attempted to play ing his . c Harbhajan b Tahir 19 (21b, c Chawla b Narine across resulted in his down­ By the 17th over, Russell 3x4), st. Dhoni b 14 (13b, 1x4, 1x6), Ambati Ray­ Tahir 9 (12b), (not udu c Rana b Chawla 21 (31b, fall. He hit to was running out of partners out) 50 (44b, 5x4, 3x6), Piyush 2x4), (not out) 8 short mid­wicket where and had to farm the strike Chawla st. Dhoni b Harbhajan 8 (8b, 1x4); Extras (nb­2, w­6): 8; pulled off a before hitting Scott Kugge­ (13b, 1x6), run Total (for three wkts. in 17.2 smart, reflex catch. leijn for 14 runs in the last ov­ out 0 (1b), c overs): 111. On a wicket where the ball er (15 in total), with one six Harbhajan b Jadeja 0 (2b), FALL OF WICKETS was holding up, the top­or­ and two fours, the last one a (not out) 1 (5b); 1­18 (Watson, 2.2 overs), 2­ der had imploded and the brutal hit straight back past Extras (lb­1, w­3): 4; Total (for 35 (Raina, 4.6), 3­81 (Rayudu, visitors were tottering at 29 the bowler to reach a well­ nine wkts. in 20 overs): 108. 14.4). for four after the PowerPlay, deserved half­. FALL OF WICKETS KNIGHT RIDERS with Chahar picking up 1­6 (Lynn, 0.6 overs), 2­8 Chawla 4­0­28­1, Prasidh 4­ three. Spinners impress again (Narine, 1.5), 3­9 (Rana, 2.3), 4­ 0­23­0, Narine 3.2­0­24­2, 24 (Uthappa, 4.4), 5­44 Kuldeep 4­0­16­0, Gurney Tahir then foxed Shub­ As in the previous games, the Imran Tahir (two for 21) and ten 43. Shane Watson, Su­ Shiver me timbers! ’ Jofra Archer can't (Karthik, 8.4), 6­47 (Gill, 10.1), 2­0­20­0. man Gill with a googly, the spinners continued the good (one for 17) resh Raina and Ambati believe the bails haven’t fallen off despite the ball hitting #70929 7­76 (Chawla, 15.3), 8­76 Toss: Chennai Super Kings batsman over­balancing and work. Harbhajan led the provided him solid support. Rayudu chipped in with M.S. Dhoni’s stumps. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI (Kuldeep, 15.4), 9­79 (Prasidh, Man-of-the-match: Deepak Dhoni doing the rest. charge once again with a bril­ During Super Kings’ useful contributions be­ 16.3). Chahar liant spell, returning figures chase, saw the fore throwing their wickets SUPER KINGS BOWLING Super Kings won by seven Lucky Russell of two for 15 in his four overs. team home with an unbea­ away. Chahar 4­0­20­3, Harbhajan wickets with 16 balls remaining. It could have been worse for Shift matches from KKR had Harbhajan held on to a skier inside the ring when Andre Russell top­ Our batsmen were unlucky: Chawla Mohali: Kings XI edged a slog sweep off the South African leg­spinner S. Prasanna Venkatesan could’ve done without Deepak Chahar said he’s SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT chairman Vinod Rai, while when he was on eight. CHENNAI losing three wickets in the now accustomed to NEW DELHI confirming the request However, the off­spinner Kolkata Knight Riders’ powerplay. “135­140 bowling effectively when Kings XI Punjab has from Kings XI, informed completely misjudged the said his would’ve been ideal on the ball isn’t swinging and requested its games to be that a decision would have catch and the ball fell behind team “didn’t misread” the this wicket,” he added. that he’s grown in shifted out of Mohali. The to be made after taking him. pitch but that a few Asked if the team had confidence as a bowler. matches are scheduled for into account the security It needed Russell’s expe­ batsmen were unlucky planned to go after Chahar He said it was a plan to April 13, April 16, May 3 arrangements at the rience and form to bring that their shots found the and it backfired, he said it bowl a lot of and and May 5. alternate venue. Kings XI some respectability to the to­ fielders. was not the case. off­spin slow bouncers The Committee of is keen to host the final tal, though this was He added that the team Man­of­the­match with the wet ball. Administrators (CoA) two matches in . not anything like the pre­ It’s Kings’ bowlers vs batsmen What is good for Royal Challengers Malinga’s return adds more potency to the home team’s pace attack

Amol Karhadkar may not be ideal for MUMBAI At the start of this IPL sea­ son, had to Kohli has two choices — throw everything into the remaining matches and hope deal with a dearth of over­ to see RCB through, or decide to pull out as captain seas pace bowlers. A fortnight later, ahead of for he is a proud man and loves to prove that makes him less than successful in a mini home­leg that starts people wrong. What is good for RCB the IPL. It is his intensity. Over a five­ with a face­off against R. may not necessarily be what is good for day period, his teammates know how to Ashwin’s Kings XI Punjab, Indian cricket right now. absorb it and handle it without falling the three­time champion is In Test­match cricket, Kohli is just apart or letting it affect their perfor­ facing a problem of plenty in BETWEEN WICKETS one win away from equalling Mahendra mance. Over the shorter game, there is the same department. Singh Dhoni’s Indian record of 27 wins; no place to hide. It is the exact reverse While the team would be suresh menon his victories have come in 46 Tests, of Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s style. He is hoping to continue its two­ Dhoni’s in 60. In ODIs, his 49 wins in 68 better focused in the shorter game, able match winning streak on Gayle to fire, it would be the hen a captain loses six straight matches give him a high percentage (74) to concentrate over the 20 overs each Wednesday, , battle between the Kings XI Wmatches in a tournament, ques­ of wins, while in T20Is, he has a respec­ innings takes — while in the five­day the leader of the pace attack, bowlers and the home tions are bound to be asked regardless table 12 wins in 22 games. In all formats game his mind tended to wander and would heave a sigh of relief team’s batsmen that could of his international pedigree. Virat Koh­ combined, among those who have led he missed some tricks. with the strong back­up op­ turn out to be decisive at the Pumped up: Mumbai pacer Jason Behrendorff will be raring li has been leading Royal Challengers in over 100 matches, Kohli’s record of Is Kohli putting pressure on his own tions Mumbai has. Wankhede Stadium. to take on the Kings XI batsmen after acquitting himself well (RCB) for seven years now, wins (64 percent) is bettered only by players with his unrelenting style, or is

As if the form of Jason in his previous outing. * PTI and in over 100 matches (44 wins, 53 Hansie Cronje, Steve Waugh and Ricky that an exaggeration? After all, most of Behrendorff, the Australian Top-order concern losses), yet his team, regularly seen as Ponting. So why does he struggle with his team have experience of interna­ left­arm pacer who joined Despite the team having re­ one of the favourites haven’t won a sin­ the IPL? tional cricket and the pressure situa­ the team last week, and lan­ surrected its campaign, gle title so far. , for This year, part of the problem is with tions that crop up regularly. Why would ky Caribbean , thanks to the bowlers getting Rohit hurts hamstring one, thinks Kohli has been lucky to his players’ astonishing fielding and the captain’s intensity affect them ad­ who registered the best fi­ into a rhythm and late­order keep his job at the top despite his bowling. RCB, according to one calcula­ versely? Perhaps it doesn’t affect every gures by a bowler on his IPL consistently finishing the in­ Amol Karhadkar pain, team record. tion, has dropped 14 catches, convert­ player. But it must affect the batsmen debut in Hyderabad over the nings with a flourish, the MUMBAI physiotherapist Nitin If nothing succeeds like success, ing just 58 percent of their chances he is at the crease with, and it seems to weekend, wasn’t a good top­order form has emerged Less than a week before Patel rushed to tend to nothing succeeds like failure too, and from the simple to the difficult. They distress the bowlers who then make sign, Mumbai Indians has re­ as a concern for MI. the selection of India’s him. Kohli has two choices before him — have also bowled the most no­balls. "We basic mistakes. ceived a boost with the re­ , the World Cup squad, vice­ After being back on his throw everything into the remaining should not be bowling three no­balls Imran Khan, a very good captain (he turn of . highest run­getter for Mum­ captain feet in a while, Rohit matches and hope the points permuta­ and eight wides in an innings,” said A.B. once won Man­of­the­Match in an inter­ The Lankan slinger mis­ bai with 133 runs in five hurt his right hamstring hobbled his way back to tions and combinations somehow see de Villiers. national for his captaincy alone), had a sed the last two matches due matches, is placed a lowly on the eve of Mumbai the change room and did RCB through. Or decide quickly to pull New statistical matrices have been similar affect on his players. It took to commitments in 21st in the list of top­scorers Indians’ IPL clash against not return for the out as captain (in India, the powerful able to pinpoint fielding lapses, batting them a while to find their rhythm under for a provincial tournament. in this IPL edition. Kings XI Punjab. remaining session. decide when they play, lead, or take a issues and bowling drawbacks. But cap­ him, and once they did they were good With Malinga joining the MI will be hoping for de The Mumbai Indians While there was no blame; selectors and management have taincy mistakes are yet to find similar enough to beat the best in the world. squad for Tuesday’s train­ Kock and Rohit Sharma, who captain appeared to have official word on his injury little to do with it), maybe even as conversion to easily digestible figures. The national team have worked out ing, it would be interesting had an issue with his hamstr­ pulled his muscle while from the MI player with the World Cup just round This, partly because you can only judge how to react to Kohli, and let his style to see MI’s pace bowling at­ ing during practice, to finally training in the outfield at management, fans will the corner. a captain by what he does and not by stimulate rather than dampen them. tack against an in­form Kings give the team a sizzling start, the Wankhede Stadium hope the injury isn’t This will ensure he gets a break and what he ought to have done, and also Over a period, a team learns how to ad­ batting line­up. it would be interesting to see on Tuesday. serious, considering the appear fresher and baggage­less for the because converting psychological im­ just to its captain’s style and make so­ While Kings would bank if the duo can tackle the wily When the ‘Hitman’ countdown for the World bigger tournament in England. But he pact is well nigh impossible. mething positive out of it. It is a little on K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agar­ at the went down writhing in Cup has already started. will have to be convinced that taking a I suspect that what makes Kohli a more difficult for a team that comes to­ wal and the big unit of Chris start of the innings. break isn’t the same as running away, good Test captain is the very quality gether for a few weeks every year.

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