Durban: The Chennai Super Kings won a warm-up tie against Nashua Dolphins by 41 runs under lights at Kingsmead on Tuesday.
Parthiv Patel made 51 off 36 balls and Suresh Raina seemed to pick up from where he left last year in the inaugural edition of DLF IPL, Raina scored a brilliant 70 off 41 balls .He hit eight fours and a six in his knock.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and lost opener Matthew Hayden with the score on 10.But Patel and Suresh Raina managed a 120-run stand at an average of 10 runs per over. George Bailey also added to the score by hitting some lusty blows out of the park. The team made 180 for seven in its 20 overs.
In reply, Nashua Dolphins were all out for 139.

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London: After having missed a good amount of cricket last year due to injuries, Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said that he doesn’t want to miss the game any more and is eager to play in the second edition of DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) in South Africa.
Flintoff, who was bought by Chennai Super Kings for a record $1.55 million, has had several niggling injuries, the latest of which was a hip problem that ruled him out of the final Test and first two One-day Internationals in the West Indies.
“I have missed so much cricket through injury that I don’t want to miss any more,” Flintoff told a leading English daily.
“I’ve not played a lot of Twenty20 cricket and I’d like to play more. I’m not saying the money is not very appealing, but there’s a lot more to it.”
“I spent several weeks working very hard at my fitness when I came back from the West Indies and, hopefully, that will stand me in good stead come the summer,” he added.
England will host West Indies from May 6 and then will have Australia for the Ashes series in June.

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Durban: Sri Lankan cricketers Muttiah Muralitharan and Thilan Thushara arrived in Durban on Friday and joined the Chennai Super Kings team which is preparing for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament, scheduled to start in South Africa on April 18. Chennai Super Kings take on Mumbai Indians on the very first day of the second edition of DLF IPL.

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The Chennai Super Kings created history of sorts when they outbid competitors to have Mahendra Singh Dhoni in their ranks. The highest paid star of the league will also fulfill skipper duties for the team. Owned by India Cements, the franchise has added star value in former cricketer Kris Srikkanth and South Indian actors Vijay and Nayantar appointed as brand ambassadors. The MA Chidambaram Stadium will be the home ground.

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