Vettori: Gayle did the circle

The player who twisted belongings approximately for the team is the in-form Chris Gayle, said Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori.

Bangalore thrashes defensive champions Chennai Super Kings to take the top place with 19 points in the Indian Premier League.

Gayle shattered an unbeaten 70 to pave the way for his side's simple win and also claim the Orange Cap with a tally of 511 runs from nine games.

"Gayle has been in charge for the circle. He has been outstanding. Our fielding and bowling has been good as well, particularly Zaheer. With Dilshan leaving we had to try out a few things. The entire department is responsibility well, and even Aravind and Mithun did well," Vettori said.

The West Indies batsman said he is enjoy the boiling form in this season of the IPL. "This has been one of the best runs I have ever had, in terms of constancy. The team has been wonderful, the fans as well. All the hold has been huge. You need to have the courage to go out there to obtain the job done; it is God's gift so I am grateful. Teams are going to come with new strategy at us. We were chase a low total, one of us had to be there till the ending," Gayle said.

Chennai captain MS Dhoni blamed top-order failure for the defeat. "If you are 4-5 down in the start, it is always hard to catch up in this format. We tried to get a honest total on the board in the end," he said.

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Modi says Srinivasan serving Chennai

Sacked Indian Premier League officer Lalit Modi has once yet again accuse the BCCI secretary N Srinivasan of departing out of his way to favor his franchise Chennai.

Modi said the Chennai Super Kings are such a good side that they can succeed the IPL without Srinivasan prop them up.

"It's a disappointment Srinivasan is resorting to all that. Chennai are a powerful team and can win exclusive of any such help," Modi wrote on Twitter.

Modi, who in his respond to the IPL chargesheet last year had accused Srinivasan of picking and choose umpires for Chennai team's matches, said the president-elect of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is brazenly supporting the side.

"Not indirectly, but very directly. Fixing the auction umpires and now pitches. Just give the damn crown to the Super Kings, Modi had tweeted.

Modi also touch upon the IPL's falling TRP ratings, achievement an all-time low in the fourth edition.

"Just learnt that the ratings for IPL have reached an average of 3.84, which is the lowly it has ever achieved. Sorry to hear the same."

Australian fable and Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne, who was fine US$ 50,000 by the IPL, said the Twenty20 league is not the similar without Modi.

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Hussey lead Chennai Win by Chasing

Chennai Super Kings 149 for 2 (Hussey 79*, Raina 61) hit Rajasthan Royals 147 for 6 (Dravid 66, Watson 32, Jakati 2-22) by eight wickets

Mike Hussey and Suresh Raina strike half-centuries to direct Chennai to an eight-wicket triumph next to the Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday.

Batting first, experienced person Rahul Dravid (66) imprinted an 86-run opening stand with Shane Watson (32), but Rajasthan were limited to 147 for six thanks to two wickets each from Albie Morkel and Shadab Jakati.

Chennai misplaced Murali Vijay (five) early on, but Raina (61) and Hussey (79) joint for a mammoth 137 runs to make sure a Chennai Supper Kings win in 18.4 overs and uphold their five-match victorious home record.

Dravid lead the Royals' early charge - cracking nine boundaries to reach 50 in 37 balls - as he and Watson meted out extraordinary action to a bland Chennai spin attack.

Ironically, it was turn that brings Chennai back into the match as Watson fell to Jakati, who also get rid of Johan Botha (eight) after Ravichandran Ashwin had snap up Ashok Menaria (two).

Dravid was ultimately wedged out attempt a slog off Suraj Randiv, and while Ross Taylor added 20 vital runs, Morkel dismiss him and Ajinkya Rahane (four) culminate in a Doug Bollinger final over that yield just seven.

In reply, Raina and Hussey help Chennai overcome the near the beginning loss of Vijay and kept them in cruise control all through. Both reach their half-centuries in the 13th over and made full use of the measured pitch to smash 11 boundaries between them.

Only skippers Shane Warne maintain a tight line to keep the necessity at a run a ball going into the last five overs. Siddharth Trivedi's bouncer had Raina trapped by Johan Botha but it was for naught as Hussey hit the charming boundary to round things off.

TEAMS

Chennai: M Vijay, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, MS Dhoni (captain & WK), JA Morkel, S Badrinath, S Anirudha, R Ashwin, DE Bollinger, SB Jakati, S Randiv

Rajasthan: SR Watson, R Dravid, J Botha, AL Menaria, LRPL Taylor, AM Rahane, SK Warne (captain), ND Doshi, STR Binny, DH Yagnik (WK), SK Trivedi

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