Chennai Super Kings bowlers were clinical in defending their team’s low total, of one hundred and sixteen runs; they also made sure, that their team would clinch the vital second spot behind Delhi in points table, irrespective of results of other matches.

Chennai super Kings Batsmen started crazily, where their new openers Bailey and Parthiv Patel were in a galloping mood right, from the first ball of the innings, but the rampaging partnership ended with a run- out of George Bailey.

Chennai were well placed even after departure of Parthiv Patel  for a well made thirtys, but rest of batsmen sounded to be in a hurry to join him in the dug – out, as the innings lost momentum, where they were able to make only mere fifty six runs in last ten overs , which is criminal under twenty 20 jurisdiction.

For Punjab kings XI Sreesanth bowled impressively and intriguingly accounting for both ominous in form Dhoni and Badrinath, but their hopes rested on Suresh raina , the maverick from the state of Uttar Pradesh and Jacob Oram, who could not gratify teams hopes and succumbed to some good bowling performance from Punjab, to keep their required rate , when they commence the innings under six.

Punjab Kings XI would have taken the score, of one sixteen runs, after the belligerent start form the openers and clearly the target, even though was a respectable one, not an implausible one.

Punjab kings XI openers came, to the middle, with the thought, of getting one sixteen runs would clinch them a semi – final berth, but pressure started, to tell in their performance.

Pobmbersbatch and Simon Katich partnership of twenty seven runs, after the fall of early wicket of shoal did put them back on track, but in the end it proved, to be their highest partnership, of the entire innings, which would no way helped them.

Chennai Super Kings new spin trio in form of Ashwin, Muralitharan and Suresh Raina took two wickets each and managed to cuff the scoring shots of batsmen, to humiliate Punjab Kings Xi further ands their semi – final dreams.

Muralitharan was exceptional in his spin bowling, where he conceded only eight runs in his four over spell with two crucial top order wickets and once Suresh Raina, the bowler got the better of Yuvraj Singh, it was death bells for Punjab Kings XI