Albie,Raina powers super kings into finals

Super Kings are through to the finals as they beat the Royal challengers Bangalore in a nail biter at mumbai in the first Qualifier of the IPL season 4.Great Character shown by 'Raina' and 'Albie' who put up a firing partnership at the end of the Thrilling encounter which seals a place in the final for the defending champions.

'No Gayle Storm this Time' - Earlier Dhoni won the toss and surprisingly asked RCB to bat first on a good batting track.The First Ultimate goal of super kings is to remove gayle soon that was the csk fans also hope.Instead the new man Agarwal take the attack to the super kings bowler.And now mahi gave the ball to Aswin to get a breakthrough but,Gayle had different idea as gayle launch the first ball to mid-wicket orbit.Aswin showed his temperament by removing Gayle in the next ball.And Aswin left the field after the ball hit him on his head,fortunately he is fine..!!

'Kholi' Fireworks - Meanwhile Agarwal got out after a quick fire 30 odd runs.And Jakati removed AB.And its upto Kholi and Pomersbach 29[18] to put up a partnership.Kholi batted quite brilliantly for his 70*[44] and Bravo's expensive 19th over helped their score to climb and Bollinger's excellent last over restricted them to 175 which proved not good against the super kings batting line-up

The King Duo - 'Albie and Raina' :- Chasing 174 in big matches always not that much easy and super kings desperately needed a good start.But they were 7-2 in the second over.The raina and Badri duo came to the rescue with a run-a-ball 50 run partnership.The required rate is climbing up all the time badri got out for 30 odd runs.Dhoni came in and smashed 29 of just 19 balls before Zaheer shifted gears by removing Mahi.Raina started to unleash in the other end and reached his 50.Now they need 38 runs last two overs.Albie joined the party as he smashed 2 sixes in the 19th over Raina joined in with a six.And the match went on to the last over where super kings need 13 runs.Albie unleashed with a four followed by a six and sealed a place for the super kings in the Grand-Finale in Chennai.

A great night for the super kings fans and friends,we are one step away from lifting the cup in our den lets see whom we gonna defeat and retain over championship.

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