“Superb Sathish” skippers Chennai Superstars on-track to topping T20 world rankings.

The fifth match of the ICL 20-20 domestic tournament was played in the picturesque setting of the Jain international residential school ground Bangalore and featured heavyweights Chennai Superstars taking on Chandigarh Lions.

The Superstars have generated a lot of interest especially with their present world rankings of No-5 (Batercard power rankings, by Green berry media UK) expected to improve on basis of a good performance at ICL season -2.

In the end the Superstars registered their second straight victory, beating the Chandigarh Lions by 5 wickets. For the Chennai side it was again their supremely talented skipper R Sathish, who played a match winning innings & in turn earning his second consecutive man of the match award.


The Superstars won the toss and put the Lions in, to take first guard. The Chandigarh side opened with the two Sharmas’ (Manish & Chetan). The openers got off to a steady start scoring 27 runs for the first wicket.

Disciplined bowling from the Superstars bowling arsenal kept a tight leash on the Chandigarh batting line not allowing their innings to gain any momentum. Wickets at regular intervals too did not help the Lions batting cause and they were soon left reeling at 6/87 in the 16th over. The only significant contributions for the Lions came from Chetan Sharma 32 runs (28 balls) & Gaurav Gupta 29 (26 balls). A late onslaught from Amit Uniyal 21 runs (off only 11 balls) saw the Lions reach a modest 125 for nine in their allotted 20 overs.



In reply the Superstars got off to a quick start with both Vignesh & Hemanth Kumar getting off to brisk starts. However both the openers could not capitalize on their good starts and were scalped by the much improved, left arm pacer Amit Uniyal.

At the end of the fifth over, Superstars were comfortable placed at 50/1. However the unfortunate run out of Hemang Badani that cut short his promising innings of 19 (11balls) & quick wickets of Saravanan, Hariesh took the steam of the Superstars run chase.

However with Sathish (38 runs off 40 balls) anchoring one end and ably supported by the calm Syed Mohammad (19 runs off 17 balls) saw the Superstars romping home with one ball to spare.