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Date – May 4, 2009
Result – Chennai Super Kings won by 78 runs

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Mahinder Singh Dhoni of Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. Right from the first over, Chennai Super Kings showed the intentions and scored runs freely. Mathew Hayden and opened the batting and give a perfect start to Chennai Super Kings. After the fall of first wicket, the run rate did not reduced and Chennai Super Kings scored runs with ease. Dhoni was at his best today and completed his half century and remained unbeaten till end. All the batsmen of Chennai Super Kings contributed and helped Chennai Super Kings post a total of 178/3 in alloted 20 overs.

Deccan Chargers Innings
Deccan Chargers got the worst possible start they could have imagined in the wildest dreams. They lost Gilchrist the very first ball and in the second over they lost Gibbs.Laxman also got out in the third over. These three batsmen failed to even open the account and got ducks. Deccan Chargers were reeling at 1/3 in 2.2 overs. It looked impossible for them to win the match but Smith showed some hope by playing a cameo of 49 runs in just 23 balls. But once again Jakati bowled a wonderful spell and took 4 wickets to reduce Deccan Chargers to 100 all out.

Fall of wickets
Chennai Super Kings
M Hayden (61-1, 6.5), M Vijay (99-2, 12.1), S Raina (153-3, 18)

Deccan Chargers
A Gilchrist (0-1, 0.1), H Gibbs (1-2, 1.2), V Laxman (1-3, 2.2), R Sharma (73-4, 8.2), D Smith (75-5, 9), Venugopal Rao (82-6, 10.4), R Harris (96-7, 12.4), RP Singh (99-8, 13.5), T Suman (99-9, 14), P Ojha (100-10, 14.4)

Man of the match – MS Dhoni

Category: IPL Chennai Super Kings, IPL Hyderabad