Chennai is the winner! Playing quality cricket right through the duration of the Champions League T20, the Super Kings clinched the tournament with a superlative performance in the final of the tournament to beat the Warriors.
Chennai Super Kings’ success in the tournament was based on team-effort and this can be seen as follows.
In the six games that the side played in the tournament, Suresh Raina scored an 80 and a 90, Murali Vijay finished with most runs in the tournament, Hussey carved out a couple of fifties, Srikkanth and Badrinath contributed against the Stags with match-turning innings, Dhoni was an inspirational leader, Murali and Ashwin finished one-two in the bowing list, Doug Bollinger and Morkel got the ball to swing around and picked their wickets, while Balaji was one of the more economical bowlers.
Unfortunately for the Warriors, they depended on one batsman and two bowlers – captain Davy Jacobs, Juan Theron and Johan Botha. None of the others did much, and till these three performed, the side won the games. In the final, Jacobs did provide a quick start but could not carry on, while the bowlers did not have much to play with.
Fair to say, the better team won the competition.
