2644dThe Report by Sidharth Monga

McCullum hundred sets up big win

Brendon McCullum's second IPL century, his first for Chennai Super Kings, set up a big second win for the hosts

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

BB McCullum
BB McCullum
100(56) 7x4 - 9x6
Control %71%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 26 runs
  • 0x4 - 4x6
7 17 1 4 8 18 23 22
MS Dhoni
53(29) 4x4 - 4x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 13 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
0 1 8 7 1 1 13 22

Best performances - Bowlers

DJ Bravo
DJ Bravo
O4
M0
R25
W2
Eco6.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
MM Sharma
MM Sharma
O4
M0
R36
W2
Eco9
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Chennai Super Kings , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-17.50, Second Session 17.50-19.20

Match days

11 April 2015 - day/night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Chennai Super Kings 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 0

Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

END OF OVER:
20 | 14 Runs | SRH: 164/6 (46 runs required, RR: 8.20)

  • Kane Williamson26 (18b)
  • Parvez Rasool2 (2b)
  • Mohit Sharma4-0-36-2
  • Dwayne Bravo4-0-25-2

That's all we have for you from this game. Vishal Dikshit is calling the KKR v RCB game, do join him there. Until next time, this is Deivarayan Muthu and Sanjay Murari saying sayonara.

Idrees: "Can anyone update me on the KKR vs RCB game?

Brendon McCullum, Man of the Match: I though today's performance was really good and it was thorough batting performance. It was far too long ago. We have a really good team spirit and it is nice to start the campaign like this. I was a little more circumspect today. In New Zealand you can start from ball one and be proactive. It helps when you have Dwayne Smith at the other end. Partnership is very crucial and we had a few of them. The SRH boys have some good guys, it will be tough to beat them later in the competition. We get on the road now.

MS Dhoni, CSK captain: I think we batted really well as a unit, the beauty was the way he [McCullum] carried. Coming from New Zealand, he would have felt hot. We perhaps got 20 more runs. It is a difficult one to rate. ODIs and T20s are different. When it is fresh in mind, you always rate it best. No point rating it, he played well. It is always important to win at home. It is a good win for us and looks a settled side. The fielding has gone up further. I think it was a very good effort.

Presentation time:

The combination of Baz's ton, Dhoni's lusty clubs and the force of the Chepauk crowd was too good for SRH. David Warner and Dhawan gave SRH a bright start, but the middle order did not turn up. Williamson's batting demotion was as surprising as Axar's promotion yesterday. Ashwin settled into an asphyxiating rhythm and was well backed up by the assortment of the slower balls from Bravo and Mohit as SRH came up short by 45 runs.

19.6
1
Sharma to Williamson, 1 run, Williamson backs away a touch, Mohit follows him with tight yorker, which is bunted towards long-off. CSK score their second victory, this one more emphatic than the first
19.5
6
Sharma to Williamson, SIX, clean strike from Williamson. Too little and too late, though. Length ball outside off, Williamson extends his arms and hoists it over long-off. Even Baz can't propel himself upward and intercept it. Should Williamson have batted up the order?
19.4
1
Sharma to Parvez Rasool, 1 run, another of those slower ones on middle and leg, from the back of the hand, tickled to short fine
19.3
1
Sharma to Williamson, 1 run, yorker at the base of the leg stump, he backs away and squeezes it out to the off side
19.2
4
Sharma to Williamson, FOUR, dug in short and on middle, he clears his front leg, semi slogs, semi pulls it away to cow corner
19.1
1
Sharma to Parvez Rasool, 1 run, back of a length and outside off, cut late to point

Not before today

0

No.of times Mohit Sharma had dismissed Shikhar Dhawan in T20s before this match. He had conceded 45 off 29 balls - the most against any batsman.

Has been done before

1

Number of times a team has chased down a target in excess of 200 at Chepauk. Super Kings did it against RCB in 2012

Second on the list

6

T20 hundreds by Brendon McCullum; only Chris Gayle (13) has more than him.

Baz's record

35

No. of fifty-plus scores Brendon McCullum has in T20s; Only four other batsmen have more such scores than him

Fifty opening stand

0

No. of fifty-plus opening stands in the first-three games of the IPL. CSK have made the first one.

Boult's T20 form

37

Wickets Boult has taken in T20s; 19 of them came in 2014 at an average of 20.05 and an economy of 6.80.