Champions League Twenty20, 15th Match, Group A: Chennai Super Kings Vs Perth Scorchers Live Scores at Bangalore, Sep 27, 2014.
Teams: Chennai Super Kings Vs Perth Scorchers
Venu: Played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Time: Match scheduled to begin at 20:00 local time (14:30 GMT)
Last Five Matches
Chennai Super Kings WLLWW (most recent first, completed matches only)
Perth Scorchers LWWWL
Preview
The two points from the washed out encounter against the Lahore Lions means the immensely popular Chennai Super Kings find themselves in a strange position. They were denied by the IPL champions KKR in the tournament opener, before coming back in style to demolish the Dolphins. The two-time IPL champions have six points from three matches. Splitting points with the Lahore Lions could come in handy or cost them a place in the semi-final. A victory in this match will not ensure them passage to the semi-final, but MS Dhoni and co. will be aware that a convincing victory is the best they can do before leaving the rest to destiny.
Scorchers did well with the ball to have Knight Riders on 125 for 6 but it was two successive late sixes again that settled the game. While it was Mitchell Marsh's blows that had won it for Scorchers against Dolphins, it was Suryakumar Yadav's strikes that did it for Knight Riders. Scorchers captain Adam Voges said he was proud of his young side for taking it so close against a powerful IPL team, but just close will not do it against another Indian franchise.
Match Stats
1.MS Dhoni is 23 short of 4000 T20 runs.
2.In his previous game, Raina became the leading run-scorer in the CLT20, overtaking Kieron Pollard
3.Brad Hogg needs three more to reach 100 T20 wickets
Teams
Chennai Super Kings team:MS Dhoni,BB McCullum,SK Raina,RA Jadeja,DR Smith,DJ Bravo,R Ashwin,M Manhas,A Nehra,JW Hastings,S Badree,I Pandey,Faf du Plessis,Pawan Negi,MM Sharma
Perth Scorchers team:AC Voges,GB Hogg,Yasir Arafat,MR Marsh,Michael Beer,Nathan Coulter-Nile,Ashton Agar,Jason Behrendorff,Joel Paris,Ashton Turner,Sam Whiteman,Hilton Cartwright,Craig Simmons,Simon Mackin,Cameron Bancroft
