Comfortable Knight for Narine & Co against CSK at Chepauk

Bad turned to worse for Chennai Super Kings, a team who has seemed to run out of ideas in the Indian Premier League so far this season. In front of jam-packed loyal fans at MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Friday, the team that is considered to be a giant in the decorated league, slumped to their fifth successive loss of the season. Up against Kolkata Knight Riders, the five-time champions put up a meek batting performance to suffer a big defeat.

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It was a new low for the team as they were bowled out for 103, their lowest total at Chepauk. Batting has been their area of concern this year and that was clearly evident on Friday. After being asked to bat first, CSK lost both their openers Rachin Ravindra (4) and Devon Conway (12) — within the first five overs. That was just the beginning as the following batters struggled to cope with the KKR bowlers. Vijay Shankar, 29 off 21 balls, showed promise but fell against the crafty Varun Chakravarthy. Varun and Sunil Narine, who was adjudged Man of the Match, had a field day as the usually-dynamic Shivam Dube ( and R Ashwin, sent in to up the run-rate, failed to get bat on ball and struggled to get the required boundaries. CSK had a period where they failed to score a boundary fo