Chennai Superstars beat Rockets to make it four in a row.

The 12th match of the ICL 20-20 Domestic tournament featured the upcoming Ahmedabad Rockets take on heavyweights Chennai Superstars at the Lahari Resorts ground Hyderabad. Both sides came into their respective fourth match with contrasting fortunes: Superstars having registered a clean sweep in all their three league matches, on the other hand Rockets, had registered a solitary win in their three previous encounters.

In the end the superstars romped to their fourth straight win by a narrow margin of four wickets. R Jesuraj was declared man of the match for his stupendous seam bowling spell of 2/17.

Earlier in the day Superstars skipper Sathish won the toss and elected to field. His decision was justified by his opening fast bowler Jesuraj who scalped two wickets in his very first over leaving the Rockets innings in tatters at 2/5.

Captain Sriram & Anshu Jain got into the repair act with a fighting fifty-five run partnership taking the score to 60 in the 10th over. However the wicket of Sriram; castled by his Superstars counterpart Sathish broke the momentum of the Rockets’ batting. With no other significant contribution but for the exception of Sanjeev Martin (28 runs off 28 balls); saw the Rockets fold their innings at a modest 116/6 in their allotted twenty overs. For the Rockets Anshu Jain top scored with 33 runs. The pick of the bowlers for the Superstars was their opening strike bowler Jesuraj who returned with impressive figures of 2/17 in his allotted 4overs.