Mumbai: Subramaniam Badrinath scored an unbeaten 63 off 44 balls as the Chennai Super Kings thumped Pune Warriors India by 8 wickets in match 31 of IPL-4 at the DY Patil stadium on Wednesday.
Earlier, The Pune Warriors bowling attack was unable to halt CSK's charge as the defending champions closed in on a convincing victory.
Murali Vijay and Subramaniam Badrinath added 61 runs for the second wicket before Vijay fell to Jesse Ryder.
Michael Hussey was brilliantly caught by Manish Pandey off the bowling of Murali Kartik as the Chennai Super Kings chased 142 for victory.
Skipper Yuvraj Singh returned to form with a fine unbeaten 62 to help Pune Warriors recover from a poor start and reach a respectable 141 for six.
The left-handed batsman, who made 0 against Mumbai Indians and a slow 34 in 43 balls against CSK two days ago, started slowly before opening out to slam four sixes and three fours in 43 balls as the Warriors recovered from 41 for four to make a more challenging score after opting to bat at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
Yuvraj first found an able ally in Robin Uthappa (31 in 22 balls) with whom he shared 42 runs for th fifth wicket to steady the Pune innings and then put on 40 runs with Mitchell Marsh (11) to guide his team beyond the 120-mark.
Doug Bollinger was the chief wrecker for CSK with a fine haul of three for 21 that included a maiden over in which he
took two wickets.
Nuwan Kulasekara, who played his first tie replacing an injured Albie Morkel, Tim Southee and Ravichandran Ashwin picked up a wicket each as CSK once again throttled Pune's batting line-up after restricting them to 117 for nine in the 25-run win at Chennai two days ago.
Electing to bat, Pune started off in a flurry with Jesse Ryder hitting Kulasekera for three successive fours in the third over.
But then came the anti-climax when the home team lost two wickets in successive balls and then a third a little later to totter at 28 for three.
Ryder fell to the first ball of the next over from left-arm pacer Bollinger, who then sent back Mohnish Mishra off the next delivery to be on a hat-trick.
Both Pune openers, who had crossed over when the left-handed Ryder was dismissed, fell mistiming the pull shot off Bollinger.
Ryder, who pulled, lofted and cover drove Kulasekara for successive fours in the previous over, was caught by a diving
Anirudha Srikkanth at short mid-wicket and then Mishra gave away a tame catch to Shadab Jakati inside the ring.
Things became even more difficult for the Warriors, who had lost three matches on the trot coming into this game, when Mithun Manhas too departed cheaply, bowled by an incoming Kulasekara delivery.
At 28 for three things looked bleak for Pune, who had lost four wickets inside the first six overs in their last two matches against Mumbai Indians and CSK to plunge to defeats.
Skipper Yuvraj started on a positive note with a couple off the first ball and a boundary off the next to take the Warriors to 37 for three at the end of the Power Play.
Pune lost their fourth wicket in the eighth over when Manish Pandey departed after making 10, mistiming a pull straight to R Ashwin at mid-on off Southee to leave the Warriors reeling at 41 for four.
CSK brought in Ashwin into the attack as Robin Uthappa reverse swept the off-spinner and then hoisted him over the mid wicket boundary for two sixes and a four in different overs.
He also attacked left-arm spinner Jakati and got nine runs off the bowler in one over. But in search of one too many Uthappa top-edged one to a diving Anirudha at the third man boundary off Ashwin.
Uthappa's quick-fire knock came off just 22 balls and had two sixes and as many fours in it.
Uthappa's stand of 42 with Yurvaj, who played second fiddle, took the total past the 80-mark by the 13th over.
By the end of the 15th over, it had moved up to 91 before Yuvraj struck his first six of the innings, clobbering Ashwin over the mid-wicket region.
When Bollinger, who bowled a fine first spell of 2-1-6-2, returned in the 17th over, Yuvraj greeted the pacer with a straight six over long-on.
Later, the flamboyant batsman carted Southee for his third six to bring up his 50 in style in the last over in 39 balls. He later hoisted the Kiwi for another six over mid-wicket to increase the tempo and remained unconquered after adding 18 runs with Jerome Taylor (1 not out).
The Warriors added 40 runs in the last five overs.
In pics: Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super Kings
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