Chennai superkings beat Deccan chargers by 78 runs

Chennai superkings beat Deccan chargers by 78 runs. Earlier they put up a target of 179,which was a difficult one to chase. Mahender singh Dhoni so far hadvery poor performance in this tournament finally played a good knock and scored unbeaten 58 of 37 ball.Mathew Hayden scored a handy of 43 runs in his aggresive style.
Deccan chargers got off to a poor startwith their three mainline batsmen Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs and V.V.S. Laxman dismissed without opening their account.

Dwayne Smith (49 not out off 23 balls) and Rohit Sharma's (21) brilliant counterattack, coupled with some terrible fielding, seemingly brought Chargers into the game.

Mahender Singh Dhoni was named as Man Of The Match