Deccan Chargers finally got their campaign back on track with a convincing win over the first edition’s runner-up, Chennai Super Kings. The Chargers won their first game of the tournament with a 31-run rout of the Chennai side in front of their home crowd at the M Chidambaram stadium. 
The Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first and were off to flier. Adam Gilchrist seemed to be continuing from where he had left off in the first game, as he took to both, Albie Morkel and Sudeep Tyagi. Tyagi had to be replaced after just one over, and despite the early introduction of Muthiah Muralitharan, the Chargers were 55/0 in only the fifth over. 
A couple of quick at the same score, led to a Chennai resurgence, but Herschelle Gibbs and Andrew Symonds then got together and played what was a matured partnership. Understanding that the side needed to bide away a few overs from R Ashwin who was bowling well at that time, the two batsmen did eat up a few deliveries.
But once set, the Symonds-Gibbs cut loose with ravishing knocks. Gibbs, who has been dropped from the international side on more occasions than one due to his impetuousness made a 36-ball 45, whereas Symmo scored a 50. The partnership yielded 95 runs, and despite the slow start, took only 75 balls to come.
In the end, Rohit Sharma and Suman smacked a few more runs, to guide the total to 190/4 in the 20 overs.
In turn, in reply, the Chennai Super Kings needed a strong start. Mathew Hayden was supposed to come out to bat with his Mongoose bat, but he did not, and probably that is what made it difficult for him. Murali Vijay departed early, bowled to an in-swinger from Vaas, and then Suresh Raina followed soon after to the same bowler, after he had hit a six to open his account.
But the body blow came in the form of Hayden’s wicket who tried a cheeky Dilscoop over the short fine-leg but only managed a top-edge that went straight up in the air to be caught by the fielder. As if this was not enough, S. Badrinath lofted one straight to the deep fielder’s hands, to reduce the Chennai innings to 32/4.
Justin Kemp, MS Dhoni and Morkel then all tried their best to resurrect the innings, but the target was far too much by then, and without the presence of someone like an Yusuf Pathan towards the end, the side ended up 32 runs short.
Vaas’ three wicket haul which broke the back of the Chennai innings won him the man of the match award.