Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Superkings (16th March 2010)

Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 55 runs

Chennai Super Kings have won the toss and elected to bat first and put a target of 165 to win for Kolkata Knight Riders. The crucial partnership between Dhoni and Badrinath in the middle order was the turning point in the match. While chasing the target KKR lost wicket in regular intervals and all out for 109. None of the batsman shine in today's match giving CSK an empathetic win.

Dhoni was declared as the Man of the Match for a match winning half century.

Numbers that mattered, Match 8

• 109 Runs added by S Badrinath and MS Dhoni during their unbeaten fourth wicket partnership was more than what the entire Kolkata Knight Riders line-up scored.

• 95 Albie Morkel was playing his 95^th Twenty20 match, equaling Australian David Hussey’s record of the most Twenty20 games played. 

• 83 Runs scored by the Chennai Super Kings batsmen in the last 6 overs. They had made only 81 in first 14. 

• 2 Albie Morkel became only the second bowler in IPL 2010 to bowl a maiden over after Deccan Chargers’ Chaminda Vaas, who has bowled two in this edition. 

• 1 The Knight Riders became the first side to be bowled out in IPL 2010. 

• 0 The Kolkata Knight Riders failed to hit even a single six – the first such instance in IPL 2010.