Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals Highlights: Hosts Chennai Super Kings notched up a 27-run win over Delhi Capitals, denting the visitors’ chances of reaching the IPL playoffs on Wednesday. Opting to bat, MS Dhoni blazed away to 20 off nine balls to help hosts Chennai Super Kings post a decent 167/8.
In reply, DC batters found the going tough and could manage only 140/8 in their 20 overs. Rilee Rossouw top-scored for Delhi with a 37 ball-35. Earlier, CSK never really got going as the Delhi bowlers kept striking at regular intervals.
However, Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja (21) smashed some much-needed boundaries and maximums to take them over the 160-run mark Spinners Axar Patel (2/27), Kuldeep Yadav (1/28) and Lalit Yadav (1/34) shared four wickets amongst themselves, while Mitchell Marsh took three scalps.
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Indian Premier League, 2023MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 05 June 2023
Chennai Super Kings 167/8 (20.0)
Delhi Capitals 140/8 (20.0)
Match Ended ( Day – Match 55 ) Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals by 27 runs
Chennai Super Kings won the match by 27 runs.
Despite what now seems to be a one-sided match, the action still continues with a wonderful spell from Tushar Deshpande. Fall of wicket continues for Delhi as they need 43 runs off the last over.
Axar Patel stands firm on the crease for the team. He hits a boundary on the second delivery of Pathirana's over. But Patel doesn't stay for long as the pacer takes his second wicket of the match. DC need 48 runs off 12 balls.
Nothing seems to work for Delhi Capitals as Chennai has so far been successful in managing the pressure on the batter. Axar Patel and Ripal Patel are on the crease taking the team forward in the run chase. DC need 60 runs off 18 balls.
Delhi Capitals off to a slow start with a loss of three early big wickets. Manish Pandey and Rilee Rossouw are taking the team forward in the chase. DC 63/3 (9)
Chennai Super Kings has started well with their bowling attack as Delhi Capitals lose 3 wickets within the first four overs. Some confusion between the wickets lead to the dismissal of Mitch Marsh. Deepak Chahar has two wickets to his credit. DC 27/3 (4)
The first delivery of Chahar hits Phil Salt in the ribs. Salt resumes after brief medical assistance. Takes a one ball breather to hit a 100-metre-long sixer. Chahar then takes out Salt on the third delivery, also marking Ambati Rayudu's 100th IPL catch. DC 25/2 (3)
First boundary for Delhi Capitals comes up from Phil Salt's bat, followed by the first Maximum. Tushar Deshpande gives 12 runs off the over. DC 13/1 (2)
Amazing first spell by Deepak Chahar. Takes out David Warner in the second delivery and gives just one run off six balls. DC 1/1 (1)
Jadeja starts the last over with a sixer but walks back on the next ball trying to hit big. Marsh also dismisses Dhoni on the 5th delivery. Dhoni & team post 168-run target for Delhi Capitals to chase.
Dhoni hits a Maximum. The crowd at Chepauk erupts! Follows it up with a boundary. And the finishers then ends the over with one more MAXIMUM!! CSK 160/6 (19)
Another victim of Delhi Capitals was Ambati Rayudu and now Dhoni has entered the ground to bat. Jadeja hits a Maximum in Kuldeep Yadav's second delivery. Misfield on the last ball. CSK 139/6 (18)
Shivam Dube hits a cracking sixer sending the ball 91-metres away from the striker's end and follows it with a 89-metre-long Maximum. The team's total has now crosses 100. Rayudu also keeps the scoreboard ticking, hits a boundary on the 4th delivery and a Maximum. CSK 111/4 (14)
Spinner Lalit Yadav starts the over with a spectacular catch, dismissing Chennai hitter Ajinkya Rahane for 21. DC spinners have done damage to the batting side as all the 4 fall of wickets are credited to spinners Axar Patel (2), Lalit Yadav (1) and Kuldeep Yadav (1). CSK 82/4 (12)
CSK is beginning to lose its charm as they are already down 3 wickets now. Moeen Ali departed when he went in for a four and was catch out.
Current Score: 64/3
CSK has already lost two of its important wickets. The team is now being defended by Moeen and Rahane.
Current Score: 56/2
Axar is on a roll! He took yet another breakthrough wicket and it looks like Delhi is really gping to turn its luck around! Axar took the much-needed wicket of Gaikwad in the first ball of Seventh over!
Current Score: 52/2
Rahane has just got on the field and he is already smashing boundaries. The man has already hit a four and it looks like he is here to get Chennai that win!
Current Score: 41/1
Axar got Delhi the breakthrough it needed by taking Conway's wicket. Chennai is now at loss of one wicket. Rahane has now taken the reign along with Gaikwad.
Current Score: 36/1
Gaikwad has managed to score 17 runs out of 12 balls and Conway has scored 10 runs out of 11 balls. IN the fourth over, Conway hit a boundary and socred a FOUR for Chenna.
Current Score: 31/0
Gaikwad hit two back-to-back fours in the last two balls of the second over. It was Ishant Sharma who bowled this over.
Current Score: 20/0
This is the second over. CSK is having a slow beginning and DC is doing its best to give away as less runs as possible.
Current Score: 10/0
The first over was bowled by Khaleel who managed to make a smooth delivery throughout the over. Gaikwad managed to score 2 runs out of 4 balls and Conway scored 1 out of 2 balls.
Current Score: 4/0
DC: Mukesh Kumar, Manish Pandey, Praveen Dubey, Abishek Porel, Chetan Sakariya
CSK: Matheesha Pathirana, Subhranshu Senapati, Mitch Santner, Akash Singh, Shaik Rasheed
Warner called the pitch a little dry. “The boys have come out with the right attitude. We had to work on our powerplay batting. Try and execute on this wicket as much as you can. Lalit comes in for Manish Pandey,” Warner Said.
Delhi Capitals: David Warner (Captain), Philip Salt (WK), Mitchell Marsh, Rilee Rossouw, Axar Patel, Aman Hakim Khan, Lalit Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (Captain/WK), Deepak Chahar, Matheesha Pathirana, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and MS Dhoni has opted to bat first in the game.
Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals have faced each other 27 times in the Indian Premier League. Dhoni-led CSK has been the dominant one in the head to head clashes with 17 wins while Warner-led DC has 10.
With 13 points and 6 wins in 11 matches, the MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings are currently positioned at the third place on the points table with a run rate of +0.951. And with four wins out of 10 games, Delhi Capitals currently sit on the bottom of the table with 8 points to their credit.
In the last match, Chennai Super Kings had beaten Mumbai Indians by six wickets. DC has seen a late surge and has won two games back-to-back and defeated RCB by seven wickets in their last game.
Delhi Capitals: Manish Pandey, RR Rossouw, KL Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, David Warner (Captain), Aman Hakim Khan, Axar Patel, MR Marsh, PD Salt (WK), KK Ahmed
Chennai Super Kings: Ajinkya Rahane, M Theekshana, RD Gaikwad, MM Ali, TU Deshpande, Devon Conway, RA Jadeja, MS Dhoni (Captain/WK), S Dubey, DL Chahar, Matheesha Pathirana
The Chepauk pitch is friendly for both batters and bowlers. However, the key factor is that the chasing side has won matches here more times. If we look at the results of the last five matches played at Chepauk, the side that batted second won the game three times. The average score for the first innings here is 173. Spinners will have a better chance on this pitch, stats show.
Hello and welcome to the live blog from Chepauk Stadium. After last night’s match between RCB and MI, no match can be termed as a low-key affair! The match will start at 7.30 pm and the toss will take place at 7 pm IST. Stay tuned for all the latest updates.
