Chennai Super Kings Beats Delhi Capitals And Retained Top Slot In Points Table
Mumbai: Top two teams will fight to end the league games at best position CSK take on DC at their home ground, for the first time in last 9 matches Dhoni lost the toss and DC decided to bowl first interestingly MS Dhoni wanted to bat first.
For CSK both the openers Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson started the innings slowly with 2 runs per over and scored one of the lowest totals of power play 27 runs with the loss of 1 wicket of Shane Watson.
Where Faf was not able to time the ball well, Chinna Thala (Raina) played a fabulous inning of 59 runs off 37 balls, meanwhile lost du Plessis lost his wicket to Axer Patel scored 39 runs off 41 balls.
Slow run rate made Dhoni play up the order and but soon CSK lost another wicket of inform Suresh Raina. Today CSK’s batting order has been changed Jadeja came to bat ahead of Kedar Jadhav and Ambati Rayudu.
It was Mahi show as he was hitting the ball so well and got well support from Jadeja from another end, MS scored 44 runs off just 22 balls which made CSK set a total of 180 runs which was a very good score at Chennai’s slow pitch. Ravindra Jadeja also contributed well scored 25 runs off 10 balls.
For DC Jagadeesha Suchith took two wickets for his side following Chris Morris and Axer Patel provided one wicket each for their side.
Chasing the target of 180 runs DC was looking good but Prithvi Shaw again failed to show his class was sent to pavilion in first over itself scored just 4 runs.
It was a good partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan both were looking good scored 45+ runs in powerplay itself DC was in control till Shikhar lost his wicket to Harbhajan Singh.
It was again MS captaincy brought Tahir on the attack which sent dangerous Rishabh Pant back to the pavilion. Throughout the season Delhi Capitals have lost those matches which were in their control.
Shreyas Iyer stood once side but didn’t receive any support from another end by which Delhi Capitals were losing there wickets on a regular basis.
Middle order completely failed to contribute runs meantime lost Shreyas Iyer as well DC was all out at just 16.2 overs of the second innings didn’t even managed to score 100 as a team total.
It was again soon attacked from CSK side as Tahir took 4 wickets, following Jadeja provided three wickets. DC’s innings also witnessed 2 outstanding stumpings by MS Dhoni, that is why he is one of the best Wicketkeeper in the world right now.
Both the team has already qualified for playoffs where CSK is at top of the table with 20 points and today’s defeat made DC remain at second position with 18 points and there is a decrease of run rate for Delhi Capitals as they lost the match by 80 runs which would be the most disappointing part for their side.
