Chennai Super Kings romped home to an obvious eight wicket
conquer Delhi Daredevils to hold its 6th victory on the trot in the IPL at the
Ferozeshah Kotla ground here Monday.
Pursuing a tough Daredevils total of 178/5, the Chennai outfit accomplished formalities having a pair of balls for extra to hand the host team its 3rd continuous failure in the competition.
C S K openers Kiwi batsman Brendon McCullum and West Indian batsman Dwayne Smith went all out immediately. The couple clicked and obtained an incredible 82-run starting wicket alliance to acquire their own team off to the excellent start up.
Kiwi player McCullum was slower, but stuck with Smith, who was in a another world completely. The West Indian messed up pacer Jaydev Unadkat throughout the ground, smacking three consecutive sixes in the 4th over.
Pursuing a tough Daredevils total of 178/5, the Chennai outfit accomplished formalities having a pair of balls for extra to hand the host team its 3rd continuous failure in the competition.
C S K openers Kiwi batsman Brendon McCullum and West Indian batsman Dwayne Smith went all out immediately. The couple clicked and obtained an incredible 82-run starting wicket alliance to acquire their own team off to the excellent start up.
Kiwi player McCullum was slower, but stuck with Smith, who was in a another world completely. The West Indian messed up pacer Jaydev Unadkat throughout the ground, smacking three consecutive sixes in the 4th over.
After McCullum dismissed, Suresh Raina has also given excellent company to Smith, who on going along with his flurry of sixes, blasting a total of an 8 sixes and four fours in his 51 ball hit of seventy nine which absolutely had taken the game from the Daredevils’ control. Raina 47 run not out and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni 12 run not out finished the innings to provide the table toppers a complete of twelve points from 7th matches. Previously, opening batsman Quinton de Kock provided the Daredevils an excellent start with 3 fours and a couple of sixes in his 16 ball knock of 24. However the South African didn’t last long because he was run out after many misunderstandings with Murali Vijay who took 35 runs. The hosts were placed in a spot of hassle when captain Kevin Pietersen was bowled with pacer Mohit Sharma. The former England skipper absolutely misreads the delivery and presented no defense. Meanwhile, C S K bowler Ishwar Pandey managed very good line and length to contain the opposition. From increasing at a good run rate, the Daredevils all of a sudden slowed up with the crash of the wickets. Even so the nature of the T20 format is such that there's nothing continual. Wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik turned out to play the anchor’s innings and arranged an essential third wicket alliance with Vijay for 71 runs. Karthik changed it to the host team accompanied by a flurry of boundaries 4 fours and 3 sixes to raise up the only half-century of the innings. Just when it seemed like the Daredevils could put Superb total, the C S K scalped Karthik, Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Vijay 35 run in a period of twelve runs. However, several big smacking in the slog overs saw the Delhi-outfit put favorable total along with J. P. Duminy 28 not out and Kedar Jadhav 29 not out.
Left handed Duminy hit 4 consecutive boundaries off Sharma to score 17 runs from the 18th over while Jadhav also strike Sharma for 2 sixes and a boundary from the last 3 deliveries of the innings to build it 18 runs in the final over.
