Comfortable Knight for Narine & Co

BAD turned to worse for Chennai Super Kings, a team which has seemed to run out of ideas in the IPL so far. In front of the 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 straight loss of the season. Up against Kolkata Knight Riders, the five-time champs put up a meek batting performance to suffer a big defeat.

- ASHOK VENUGOPAL @ Chennai

It was a new low for the team as they were restricted to 103/9, 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-dynami