Yesterday I heard that some teams
are determined to win while some others are with win destiny. CSK under the
captaincy of Dhoni belongs to latter class of teams. In the last four years,
after the IPL 1, this year again I was
following the IPL. From the match one there were indications for the twists and
turns during the tournament.
Look at the some of these twists
and turns associated with defending IPL champion CSK on the basis of which they
say M S Dhoni is the lucky captain.
1] It was match No. 13 of the
tournament though No. 13 is considered as unlucky but this brought luck for the
CSK, before this match team was struggling with just one win against the Deccan
Chargers, from the three matches they played. [Early days of the tournament]
RCB won the toss and elected to bat first, RCB went on to score 205 from their
allotted 20 overs.
It was on the cards that CSK is
likely to face yet another defeat and till the end of 18 over things were
heading in that direction as at that stage of game CSK was struggling with 163
for four, needing 43 runs from last two overs. This was Virat Kohali who bowled the 19th
over of CSK and Albie Morkel who had just walked in, went on score 28 runs from
the six balls bowled by Kohali. [4,6,4,6,2,6]
CSK was needing 15 runs from the
last over bowled by Vinaykumar, who went on get rid of Morkel on the second
ball of the over but fail to defend 2 runs on last ball as Jadeja facing very
first ball of his inning dispatched this last ball of match for four and CSK
won the match.
2] This was the match No. 26 of
tournament played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, Rajasthan Royals won the
toss and elected to bat, RR went on to finish their inning at 146 for 4 from
their 20overs.
Match was again extended to 2
runs required from last ball and Dhoni scored these runs.
3] Date 14 May, Eaden Gardens
Kolkata Match 63 of IPL 2012, Match No. 15 for CSK who were unable to find
their winning touch as point tally for them was like 7 win from the 14 games
played.
CSK won the toss and invited KKR
to bat first who went on to score 158 for 6 from the 20 overs bowled by the CSK
bowlers. After a very strong opening stand of 97 runs provided by Hussey and
Murli Vijay in just 10.2 overs team was struggling for win in the last over as
on the second ball of last over [bowled by Rajat Bhatia] Dhoni was bowled and
team was needing 8 runs to win from remaining four balls.
Jadeja scored 3 runs from the
first two balls he faced now Bravo was back on the strike and CSK needing 5
runs from 2 balls. Bhatia bowled a dot ball and CSK was left with needing 5
runs from the last ball of the match.
This is never easy for any player
to hit a six on the last ball at Eaden Gardens against the home team with
several thousand supporting roars for the home team, but when luck is on your
side any thing can happen and Bravo hit a skiers towards the long on which
landed beyond the Tiwari and boundary line and CSK once again, third time in
the tournament went on test win on the last ball of the match.
4] On the 17th Match
CSK lost their match to KXIP and finished with 17 points standing at forth
position on point tally with 8 wins 7 losses and 1 rain washed match from the
16 games to be played by every team.
At this time RR with 14 points
and 2 Matches left and RCB with 15 points and 2 matches left were in the
position to move forward and assure a place in final four for the playoff and
leaving the CSK disqualified for playoff. This was on the card as RR and RCB
both were left with one match against the D C, the weakest team of the
tournament.
On the same day, 17th
May RCB went on win against the DD and matched with CSK on point tally [both
having 17 points] with RCB to play their last game against DC on the 20th
May.
5] Match No 68, 18 May, Rajiv
Gandhi Stadium in a do and die game RR after winning the toss and choosing to
bat Rajasthan Royals were managed to score [Batting First] their season’s
lowest total 126 for 8 and in the first 8 overs of their inning DC openers
Dhawan and Reddy by scoring 62 for no loss has insured a defeat for RR. What a
destiny favor (?) for the CSK.
6] Destiny was writing yet
another page for CSK as RCB the only team of the tournament which crossed the
200 mark twice, has failed to score just 132 runs scored by the DC. This might
be the rush of blood or the destiny of RCB that which forced Virat Kohali the
captain of RCB to go wild on the last ball of 16 over [RCB 103 for 5], a over
in which RCB batsmen have already scored 14 runs from the five ball and heading
towards victory and place in final four for the playoff.
Things went beyond the control of
RCB as in the next 4 overs team has scored only 20 runs with loss of 4 more
wickets.
DON’T BLAME ANY PLAYER, TALENT OR ANY THING ELSE THIS WAS
THE DESTINY WRITTEN FOR DHONI & OWNERS OF CSK.
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