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Chasing a meagre 137 for victory, Warriors seemed well on course at 107 for 3 at the beginning of the 18th over, but a sudden collapse left them stranded at 126 for 8.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) became the second IPL team to enter the semifinals of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament in South Africa when they beat Warriors by 10 runs here on Wednesday.
Chasing a meagre 137 for victory, Warriors seemed well on course at 107 for 3 at the beginning of the 18th over, but a sudden collapse left them stranded at 126 for 8.
Warriors, however, also entered the semifinals as the second team from Group A, edging out the Victoria Bushrangers on net run rate.
Earlier, Warriors produced a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Chennai Super Kings to a modest 136 for six in a crucial Group A match of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in Port Elizabeth today.
Justin Kreusch turned out to be the hero for Warriors with figures of three for 19 as Chennai faltered after a steady start to post the meagre total on a lively St George's Park wicket in Port Elizabeth.
Mike Hussey (50 off 39) and Murali Vijay (35 off 27) shared a 63-run opening stand to give a decent start to the Chennai innings while skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni remained unbeaten on 31 that came off just 21 deliveries.
Dhoni's decision to bat first backfired as Chennai could manage 65 runs off the last 10 overs even though they had fours wickets at hand in the end.
Chennai started on a cautious note as Murali Vijay and Mike Hussey mixed caution with aggression to score 37 runs off the first six overs.
Chennai finally cut loose in the seventh over when Vijay and Hussey picked up 16 runs off Nicky Boje.
Vijay started the proceedings with a thumping six over deep midwicket and then Hussey followed it up with a cheeky reverse sweep after which the Tamil Nadu batsman finished off the over with a boundary over square-leg.
Vijay's hardwork went in vain as he was cleaned up by Kreusch in the ninth over but not before the right-hander made 35, which was studded with three fours and two sixes.
Hussey, however, shouldered the Chennai innings and hit Botha for a six and a four to score 13 runs of the the 12th over.
On the other hand, Raina's stay at the crease was a struggle and the left-hander's 12-ball six run agony finally came to an end when he was brilliantly caught by Colin Ingram at long-on off Kreusch.
If that was not enough, a settled Hussey departed in the first ball of the next over, clean bowled by Botha as the left-hander went for a slog sweep.
Piling up more misery for the Indian Premier League side, Kreusch got his third victim of the day in the form of S Badrinath, whose timbers went for a toss as he went for huge hit over square-leg.
Dhoni took the responsibility on his own shoulders to guide Chennai to a respectable score as he finally broke free in the 19th over. He struck Lonwabo Tsotsobe for two boundaries and a massive six to pick up 17 runs off the penultimate over.
But it was not to be Chennai's day today, as Srikkanth Anirudha fell to a gem of an yorker from Rusty Theron and then new man in Justin Kemp sacrificed his wicket for Dhoni in the last over, in which the IPL side could only score five runs.
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