Nadeem
05-05-2008, 05:25 PM
Sohail Tanvir returned the best-ever figures in Twenty20 cricket as Jaipur whipped Chennai by eight wickets at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Sunday to record their fifth consecutive win and go atop the Indian Premier League (IPL) points table.
The 23-year-old left-arm seamer, who made his international debut for Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa last year and subsequently appeared in both Tests and ODIs, grabbed 6-14 to bring Chennai hurtling down after the visiting side had elected to bat.
Tanvir, who bowls with an odd action that makes him seem bowling off the wrong foot, managed appreciable movement with both the new ball and the old as Chennai were bowled out for just 109. Jaipur got to the target with 5.2 overs to spare.
Chennai, who had won their opening four games before being beaten by Delhi, were always on the back-foot as Tanvir struck with the first ball of the match and finished with three scalps in his first two overs, all of them left-handers. He trapped openers Parthiv Patel and Stephen Fleming leg-before to deliveries that moved in sharply to rap the pads. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, who had scored a handy 54 in Chennai’s last match, was caught in the slips off Tanvir as Chennai slipped to 11-3 in the third over.
The Pakistani seamer then came back to dismiss Albie Morkel, who fought a lone battle in his 33-ball knock 42, Muttiah Muralitharan and Makhaya Ntini towards the end, all three clean bowled.
The 23-year-old left-arm seamer, who made his international debut for Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa last year and subsequently appeared in both Tests and ODIs, grabbed 6-14 to bring Chennai hurtling down after the visiting side had elected to bat.
Tanvir, who bowls with an odd action that makes him seem bowling off the wrong foot, managed appreciable movement with both the new ball and the old as Chennai were bowled out for just 109. Jaipur got to the target with 5.2 overs to spare.
Chennai, who had won their opening four games before being beaten by Delhi, were always on the back-foot as Tanvir struck with the first ball of the match and finished with three scalps in his first two overs, all of them left-handers. He trapped openers Parthiv Patel and Stephen Fleming leg-before to deliveries that moved in sharply to rap the pads. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, who had scored a handy 54 in Chennai’s last match, was caught in the slips off Tanvir as Chennai slipped to 11-3 in the third over.
The Pakistani seamer then came back to dismiss Albie Morkel, who fought a lone battle in his 33-ball knock 42, Muttiah Muralitharan and Makhaya Ntini towards the end, all three clean bowled.