Bollinger, Badrinath fashion Chennai's win
Australian pace bowler Doug Bollinger bagged 3-21 and Subramaniam Badrinath slammed an unbeaten 63 as defending champion Chennai Super Kings defeated Pune Warriors by eight wickets in the IPL on Wednesday.
Bollinger came up with timely strikes to restrict Pune to 6-141 after the home side elected to bat.
He removed openers Jesse Ryder (19) and Mohnish Mishra in the fourth over before returning to dismiss compatriot Mitchell Marsh in his second spell.
Badrinath then produced a neat 44-ball knock as Chennai scored 2-145 with three balls left.
For the losing team, captain Yuvraj Singh was the highest scorer with 62 not out.
Chennai improves to a provisional second in the 10-team standings after the return match, having prevailed over Pune by 25 runs on Monday.
New franchise Pune remains eighth having played one game less.
In the late game India pace bowler Ishant Sharma produced a fiery opening spell to take 5-12 and help Deccan Chargers beat Kochi Tuskers by 55 runs.
Skipper Kumar Sangakkara top-scored with a 47-ball 65 to take Deccan Chargers to 7-129 from a precarious 3-20 but the game belonged to Sharma who proved to be virtually unplayable at the Nehru Stadium in Kochi.
The lanky paceman removed Parthiv Patel, Raiphi Gomez and Australian Brad Hodge off the second, third and fifth balls of his first over before grabbing two more wickets for third-best IPL bowling figures ever.
His pace partner Dale Steyn took 3-16 as Kochi were bowled out for 74 off 16.3 overs.
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