CLT20 Live: Rajasthan beat CSK by 14 runs, into final

20 overs: CSK 145-8 Morris 26, Ashwin 46 6, 1, 1, W, 0, 0 Ashwin started the over off with a six – the ball was full and Ashwin got under it. Then two singles. Hodge and Watson collided off the third ball and Hodge was left grimacing on the ground. Off the fourth ball, Ashwin found the fielder in the deep. It left CSK with 15 runs to get off 2 balls. Another dot ball followed. RR are into the final, they have beaten CSK by 14 runs. 19 overs: CSK 137-7 Morris 25, Ashwin 39 1, 1w, 4, 2, 4, 1, 1. 14 runs off the over. 23 runs off 6 ball need. Cooper got it pretty wrong in the over with full tosses and wides. But Rajasthan should still win this. 18 overs: CSK 124-7 Morris 14, Ashwin 37 But you just can’t afford to switch off in T20 cricket. RR took their foot off the pedal and Ashwin stepped it up. He already has 2 sixes and 3 fours in his knock. 37 to win off 12 balls. 12.3 overs: CSK 72-7 Morris 0 They are collapsing. Raina gone too and it’s that man Tambe again. It was wide and spinning away from Raina who only managed to hit it hit up. RR is up to 11.73. Tambe finishes his spell with figures of 3-10. Stunning effort. S Raina c sub (A Menaria) b Tambe 29 (23b, 4x4)12 overs: CSK 70-6 Raina 27 WICKET! Watson strikes to send back Sir Jadeja! Game over? No room for the cut shot and it bounced on Jadeja too. R Jadeja c Yagnik b Watson 2 (4b) 10.4 overs: CSK 61-5 Raina 23 Tambe is on fire. Another wicket for him – the batsmen simply can’t read him at the moment. This is superb for RR. Raina is the hope for CSK and Sri Jadeja can always come up something special. Today they will both need to bat well. D Bravo lbw b Tambe 3 (5b) 9.2 overs: CSK 54-4 Raina 19 WICKET! The big wicket. Dhoni had looked unsure against Tambe in the last over – playing his off the back foot and now Shukla struck him on the pads – squaring him up with late away movement. The umpire had no hesitation. MS Dhoni lbw b Shukla 3 (7b)

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8.1 overs: CSK 51-3 Raina 19 Badrinath deceived by Tambe and RR have another wicket. This is going well for them. Superb bowling by the 41-year-old but what got into Badrinath there? S Badrinath st Yagnik b Tambe 8 (10b, 1x4) 8 overs: CSK 51-2 Raina 19, Badrinath 8 109 to win from 72 balls. CSK making sure they are in a position to launch a final assault. 5.4 overs: CSK 33-2 Raina 9 Vijay finally succeeds in running himself out. He had threatened to do it twice in the last over and once before too. M Vijay run out 14 (16b, 2x4) 5 overs: CSK 29-1 Vijay 10, Raina 9 Watson missed another chance for a run-out. Another mix-up and this time Vijay was halfway down the pitch before Raina sent him back. Watson could have lobbed it to the fielders but instead chose to go for the direct hit. Vijay survived. There was another run-out chance in the over – against a jittery Vijay survived. In between Watson strayed on the leg-stump and was hit for two fours. 2.5 overs: CSK 13-1 Vijay 3 147 off 103 balls is the equation and CSK have lost their most experienced batsman, Michael Hussey, to a mix-up in the middle. RR will welcome this. M Hussey run out 9 (11b, 1x4) 2 overs: CSK 10-0 Vijay 2, Hussey 7 150 more needed from 108 balls. Good over for CSK. 1 over: CSK 2-0 Vijay 1, Hussey 1 160 off 120 balls that is equation at the start of the innings. Stuart Binny makes a solid start for RR. CSK are in now hurry as of now. They know they have the firepower.

20 overs: RR 159-5 Shukla 1, Faulkner 1 Rahane fell after making 70 off the first ball and then Yagnik fell off the third ball for a duck. And then Binny fell off the fourth ball – caught in the deep. Stunning last over by Bravo – just 4 runs. Last 5 overs – 38 runs, 5 wickets. CSK have ended strongly. This is well within their range. 19 overs: RR 155-5 Rahane 70, Binny 4 Just six runs off the over. A brilliant one from Holder. RR would have liked to have at least 170 on board but that seems difficult now. 18.1 overs: RR 149-5 Rahane 68 Hodge gone first ball. Holder kept it straight and Hodge missed. Boom. B Hodge b Holder 11 (9b, 1x4) 18 overs: RR 149-4 Rahane 68, Hodge 11 CSK managing to keep things under control – just about. 17 overs: RR 141-4 Rahane 64, Hodge 8 12 runs off the over including a delicate paddle sweep between the fine leg (who was up) and Dhoni. Rahane is playing smart cricket but they have three overs left to put up a really challenging total. 16 overs: RR 129-4 Rahane 58, Hodge 2 Four off the last ball by Rahane salvaged the over a little but still not good enough for RR. 15.1 overs: RR 121-4 Rahane 52 WICKET! Morris strikes with the first ball of his last over. Disaster for RR as Watson, who was striking the ball really well, falls. He skied it and Holder took the catch well. S Watson c Holder b Morris 32 (23b, 4x4) 15 overs: RR 121-3 Rahane 52, Watson 32 Watson has the platform he needed. Another big over for RR – 13 runs off it and the big Aussie still hasn’t gone nuts. This is good stuff for RR. But they need finish well. 14 overs: RR 108-3 Rahane 51, Watson 20 And that’s the fifty for Rahane. His third fifty in a row. He’s timing it well but he needs to go a little crazy now. So far, he has been all timing and class.

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13 overs: RR 102-3 Rahane 46, Watson 19 Bravo comes back with a solid over for CSK. After the big over that RR had, CSK needed someone to pull things back. Bravo did exactly that until the last ball when Watson hit it for four. 12 overs: RR 94-3 Rahane 44, Watson 13 Ashwin lost his length in the last over and Rahane went after him – a lovely superbly timed six over covers, and then a four through point. 16 off that over from Ashwin. 11 overs: RR 78-3 Rahane 33, Watson 11 RR still waiting for one big over to get things going. CSK are pretty happen with the way things are at the moment. 8.4 overs: RR 62-3 Rahane 28 Runs are proving much harder to come by than was initially thought. Samson perished going for the big shot – top edge. Easily caught. Watson is in next. S Samson c Ashwin b Holder 11 (10b, 1x4) 7 overs: RR 49-2 Rahane 20, Samson 7 Steady start. That’s about it. Shane Watson and Stuart Binny and Brad Hodge will need to go pretty much nuts. 5 overs: RR 37-2 Rahane 10, Samson 5 Time to rebuild for RR? Or do they go crazy? One of their batsmen needs to start attacking – CSK has too much firepower. 4 overs: RR 29-2 Rahane 8 WICKET! Cooper quick-fire knock comes to an end. But it would have given RR some impetus. Two fours and a six. Samson is in next. K Cooper c Badrinath b Sharma 14 (7b, 2x4, 1x6) 2.4 overs: RR 14-1 Rahane 6 WICKET! Morris into the attack now. Dhoni making the changes… nice and quick and that worked. Morris sent Dravid back with a superb yorker. Dravid’s stumps were a mess. R Dravid b Morris 5 (8b, 1x4) 2 overs: RR 11-0 Dravid 5, Rahane 6 Mohit Sharma runs in from the other end with the new ball. But Dravid was up on his toes and hit the ball through point for his first four of the innings. No runs came off the next five balls – Mohit didn’t give Dravid as much width as he did on the first ball and that paid off. 1 over: RR 7-0 Dravid 1, Rahane 6 Jadeja to open the attack. He has been expensive in the tournament so far but the move worked up to the fourth ball. Then Rahane hit him straight over his head for a six. But still it was just a seven run over. CSK won’t mind this. TOSS Dhoni called heads and won the toss. He elected to bowl first. One change in the CSK line-up. Albie Morkel dropped and Chris Morris comes into the team. One change for RR too. Yagnik comes in for Menaria. Teams RR XI: R Dravid, A Rahane, S Samson, S Watson, S Binny, B Hodge, D Yagnik, J Faulkner, K Cooper, R Shukla, P Tambe CSK XI: M Vijay, M Hussey, S Raina, DJ Bravo, MS Dhoni, S Badrinath, R Jadeja, C Morris, R Ashwin, J Holder, M Sharma [caption id=“attachment_1153407” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  It’s hard to choose between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. BCCI[/caption] Pre-game It’s hard to choose between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals — especially considering the Royals have turned the Sawai Mansingh Stadium into a fortress with a 12-match winning streak. But they’ll come up against the ever-formidable Chennai Super Kings in the first semifinal of the Champions League Twenty20 on Friday. Rajasthan Royals breezed into the last-four stage of the tournament with an unbeaten four-match streak while the Super Kings, the first team to have advanced to the semifinals, stumbled in their final group game against Trinidad & Tobago. Former champions CSK are aware that their opponents have not lost a single game in this venue in the last Indian Premier League, and add the home side’s performance in the ongoing tournament, the record surely wears an invincible look. Considering that they will be playing in front of the home crowd, the scenario is ideal for RR skipper Rahul Dravid, though he also knows that the tournament’s toughest challenge awaits them. Stats The Chennai Super Kings have won only two of their four matches at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. But Rajasthan’s record at their home venue has been stunning. But every team knows that they aren’t going to have it easy against CSK. Not only do they have the big hitters, they also have the players who take the singles. In this CLT20 – their dot-ball percentage is 35.8 percent. The RR bowling on the other hand has been brilliant too. They have the lowest boundary percentage – 50.90 percent.