Suresh Raina Guides Chennai Into IPL Semi-Final

Suresh Raina's unbeaten 54 guided Chennai Super Kings to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Deccan Chargers Hyderabad and secured his team a semi-final berth in the Indian Premier League today.

The must-win game for Chennai, which was played at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium,Hyderabad saw the visitors chasing the victory target of 148 with four balls to spare as Raina finished off the proceedings with a six and completed his fifty to take his team into the semi-finals.
Earlier, Hyderabad were restricted to 147-8 after they decided to bat first on winning the toss.
Venugopal Rao (46) and Ravi Teja (40) were the chief contributors for Hyderabad.
For Chennai Albie Morkel and Laxmipathy Balaji claimed 2 wickets each while Muttiah Muralitharan, Gony and Ntini picked one wicket each.
ScoreboardChennaiP Patel c Afridi b Sarvesh 20S Fleming c Gilchrist b Vijaykumar 14S Raina not out 54MS Dhoni c Gibbs b Ojha 37A Morkel not out 12Extras: 11 ( b:0 lb:3 nb:0 w:8)Total: 148-3 (19.2) Curr. RR: 7.66
FOW: S Fleming (26-1, 3.2), P Patel (59-2, 8.3), *MS Dhoni (115-3, 15.2)
HyderabadRP Singh 4 0 32 0D Vijaykumar 3.2 0 32 1S Afridi 3 0 20 0Sarvesh Kumar 2 0 18 1P Ojha 4 0 28 1S Styris 3 0 16 0
HyderabadA Gilchrist c Mukund b Gony 5H Gibbs c Balaji b Ntini 8S Styris b Muralitharan 20Venugopal Rao run out (Gony) 46Ravi Teja c Mukund b Morkel 40S Afridi c Raina b Balaji 1A Yadav b Morkel 0RP Singh c Morkel b Balaji 10P Ojha not out 1Extras: 16 ( b:1 lb:8 nb:0 w:7)Total: 147-8 (20) Curr. RR: 7.35
FOW: H Gibbs (11-1, 2.2), *A Gilchrist (15-2, 3.3), S Styris (57-3, 10.1), Ravi Teja (133-4, 18.3), Venugopal Rao (134-5, 18.4), A Yadav (134-6, 18.5), S Afridi (146-7, 19.4), RP Singh (147-8, 20)
ChennaiM Ntini 4 0 24 1M Gony 4 0 21 1A Morkel 4 0 36 2M Muralitharan 4 0 22 1L Balaji 4 0 34 2