IPL on fire : Mike Hussey cracks the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket history as Chennai Super defeats Kings XI Punjab
Neena Chandravarkar
Apr. 19, 2008

The IPL is boycotted by international media. But its is performing very well and is snub to the western media king pins.

Mike Hussey cracks the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket history as Chennai Super defeats Kings XI Punjab.

Hussey's blistering unbeaten 116 off just 54 balls steered Chennai Super Kings to an imposing 240 for five on a perfect batting strip at the PCA stadium. The Chennai outfit then restricted the home team to 207 for four to record a win in their opening match.

Teams:

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (C), Matthew Hayden, Jacob Oram, Mike Hussey, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Palani Amarnath, Muttiah Muralitharan, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Goni.

Kings XI Punjab: Karan Goel, James Hopes, Kumar Sangakkara, Yuvraj Singh (C), Simon Katich, Pankaj Dharmani, Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Piyush Chawla, Wilkin Mota, S Sreesanth.

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