Hits:
Glenn Maxwell:
Glenn Maxwell’s show was quite in last couple game but he came back with a bang. He started his innings bit slow after Sehwag gave the team a quick start. But once Ashwin came into attack he brought back his performances he done in UAE. He smacked 34 runs in 9 balls he faced against Ashwin and raced to a 22 ball fifty. Later he took on Smith against who he scored 3 sixers in difference of 4 balls. At the end he was dismissed for 90, his only weak area in this IPL. He scored 90 off just 38 balls which had 6 fours and 8 sixers.
David Miller:
David Miller who played some useful knocks along with Maxwell done it once again. With Maxwell on other end Miller needed to do an anchor role in which he succeeded. In his partnership with Maxwell for 3rd wicket, he put on 140 off just 10.4 overs in which he can only score just 47 off 32 balls.
Came after the three wickets were down, he came out to do with some smooth thinking. He hardly got to face 13 balls and where far enough for big three. First he smashed 4 fours in 5 balls of Hilfenuas:
Faf du Plessis:
Du Plessis came in to bat when his team lost 3 wickets under 10 over and still 16 an over was needed. He kept calm and tried to take the chase as deep and he can in this process he smashed a boundary one-two overs. Especially he was special when he smashed Johnson for 6, 4 and 4. Later he took charge on Sandeep Sharma and completed his fifty off just 22 balls.
Flops:
Dwayne Smith:
Smith has been main player for CSK in this season. Everyone expected a good show at the start off the innings but he failed to deliver it. He began with a boundary of the first ball but his innings ended for just 4 balls as he failed to make it big been dismissed triing to slog the ball straight away. He didn’t had a great day with ball as he conceded too much but finally ended up a wicket of Miller.
It wasn’t a great day for the CSK captain both personally and regarding team. His gamble to send up someone order and stay at bottom doesn’t look good. Later with the bat he failed very poorly. When his team need at huge rate he came and tried to take his time to set. In the process he scored just 15 off 16. But later he tried to smashed it but it came to the last IPL.
Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja:
Ashwin has been having a good tournament so far but he had a bad memory once again against KXIP. Once the ball was given to Ashwin & Jadeja, Maxwell started to smash both of them. Both the bowlers went for huge amount of runs courtesy of an insane hitting by Maxwell and Miller. Later they both tried to cover it with some quickfire runs which didn’t help the result.