Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings set themselves up as the team to beat in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament with a second successive crushing win yesterday
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings set themselves up as the team to beat in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament with a second successive crushing win yesterday.
Chennai Super Kings' Suresh Raina (L) and Murali Vijay celebrate theiru00a0
50-run stand against Wayamba at Centurion yesterday. PIC/AFP
After winning their opening Group A match against the Central Stags by 57 runs, Chennai outplayed Sri Lanka's Wayamba Elevens, winning by 97 runs in the second game of a double-header at SuperSport Park.
In the earlier match, Australia's Victoria Bushrangers beat the Stags by seven wickets with two balls to spare to turn Group A into a three-team contest for two semi-final places.
Suresh Raina and Murali Vijay set up the win for Chennai, putting on 137 in 12 overs for the second wicket to make a mockery of Wayamba's decision to field first.
Chennai piled up a tournament-best 200 for three and Wayamba could only manage 103 all out in reply.
Particularly encouraging for Chennai was that the players who starred on Wednesday were different from those who shone in the first game last Saturday.
The only concern for the Super Kings was the form of opening batsman Matthew Hayden, who followed a duck on Saturday with 10 on Wednesday.
Dhoni praised Raina and Vijay for the way they set up the win against Wayamba.
He said Australian fast bowler Doug Bollinger, who claimed the key wicket of Mahela Jayawardene, was a key bowler.u00a0
"It's important to have a quick bowler in our side," he said. "But equally important was Albie Morkel, who has the knack of taking wickets."
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Dhoni said his team wanted to win every match they played but added: "We always talk about not thinking too much about the result but about the process and preparing well."
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