Chennai Super Kings scored an easy win over Deccan Chargers and stormed in to the semi finals. Chasing a target of 148, they managed to score it with ease with all batsmen contributing to the team success.Chennai bowlers restricted Deccan Chargers to 147 for 8 which made the task of their batsmen little easy and they coasted pretty well to victory. Raina and Dhoni made valuable contributions to storm in to the semis where they will meet Kings XI Punjab whom they have defeated twice in the league matches.Win for Chennai made sure that Mumbai Indians are out of the Semis. So it would be Rajasthan vs Delhi and Punjab vs Chennai.

In the 54 th match of DLF - IPL, Deccan Chargers batted first and got a poor start as they lost the openers - Gilly and Gibbs at a team score of just 15.The Chennai Super Kings bowler bowled excellent line and length and didnot let the batsmen of Deccan Chargers score freely. Wickets were falling at regular intervals and in they end they managed only 147 runs. Some relief was brought by Venugopal Rao who was the top scorer with 46 run for the Chargers.It looks like a real easy chance for Chennai Super Kings to win the match and assure a berth in the semi finals.

In the match between Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings all th Charger fans would love to see atleast one win by the Deccan’s on the home ground. More over they would like to end it on a winning note where as Chennai Super Kings wish to win the match and built a momentum for the semi finals.

Deccan Chargers (probables): 1 Adam Gilchrist (capt/wk), 2 Herschelle Gibbs, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Venugopal Rao, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Ravi Teja, 7 Arjun Yadav, 8 Sanjay Bangar, 9 Nuwan Zoysa, 10 RP Singh, 11 P Vijaykumar.

Chennai Super Kings (probables): 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), Stephen Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Albie Morkel, 5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), 6 S Badrinath, 7 Abhinav Mukund/ Joginder Sharma, 8 Manpreet Gony, 9 L Balaji, 10, Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

Match Number - 54

Time - 8 pm (20:00 hours IST)

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