Opting to bat first after winning the toss, The Delhi Capitals had a fairly brisk start of 35-0 in their first four overs!
Then, Dheepak Chahar ,The powerplay specialist of CSK, Dismissed Prithvi Shaw and brought an end to Shaw's blistering innings ; A 16 ball 24 which had five boundaries . Three out of those were hit in successive delivaries off Shardul Thakur's over , The second over of the match .
Shreyas Iyer, The DC captain, Struggled his way to a 20 ball 18 before getting trapped LBW by Imran Tahir .
Rishabh Pant was promoted to number 4 and he smashed two fours and a six in his cameo of 25 runs from 13 balls. The innings was eventually cut short by a fantabulous catch by Shardul Thakur off the Bowling of Dwayne Bravo .
Shikhar Dhawan was actually running short of partners while being the anchor.
His anguish continued as he could just watch Colin Ingram getting out caught by Raina in the same over , in a soft dismissal in only the second ball that was faced by the South African .
Even before DC could think of stabilizing themselves from the Double blow, Caused by the Trinidadian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja took the wicket of Keemo Paul. The Guyanese all-rounder had to make his way back to the pavilion without scoring despite facing four balls.
Although Dwayne Bravo conceded 17 runs in the first over of his spell ,His next 3 overs were extremely skillfull and economical to the extent that just 16 were scored of those overs.
In the 18th over of the innings, Dhawan was finally dismissed. It was Bravo and Thakur duo that worked together again to execute the completion of Dhawan's innings, Which got the opener his 33rd fifty in the IPL .
Bravo completed his magical comeback with the ball by bowling the 20th over and conceding just 9 runs. This meant DC's score was restricted to 147/6.
Only 2 boundaries came in the final five overs, A period in which DC batsmen were able to gather as few as 29 runs. This was a contrast display to the 82 runs they scored, with 13 boundaries in the same phase, against Mumbai Indians, In Mumbai on Sunday.
In Chase of 148, Rayudu fell early for a run a ball Five, getting caught by Shreyas Iyer at mid -Off off Ishant Sharma's bowling.
Suresh Raina and Shane Watson stiched a quick 52 run stand for the next wicket ,Before Watson was stumped by Pant off a wide ball bowled by Mishra in the seventh over .
In his 26 ball blitz ,Watson scored 44 runs with four boundaries and three sixes .
The bowler and Keeper Combo became the catalyst of Raina's stumping in the 11th over .This time the mode of Dismissal though ,Was Caught !
In his brief stay at the wicket which lasted for only 16 balls, Raina had hit four boundaries and a six! First three fours by Raina, Came off Ishant Sharma's bowling in the fifth over of consecutive delivaries.
From that point of 98/3 in 10.2 overs, Till completing coming close to the target by reaching 146 at the end of the 19th over, The Partnership between Dhoni and Jadhav lasted.
Jadhav got dismissed in the first delivary off the final over by Rabada ,By virtue of a feather edge and a catch to the keeper ! He had to walk off for a sedate 34 ball 27 with 2 boundaries .
Two more dot balls followed . Then, Bravo sent the fourth ball of the over for four to deep backward square to make CSK cross the target and reach 150, With. 2 balls to spare!
Dhoni scored 32 runs off 35 balls with two fours and a six and remained unbeaten.
Shane watson was chosen as the man of the match .
With two wins in the first two games, CSK will next face Rajasthan Royals on Sunday night at Chennai
Toss : Delhi opt to bat
Delhi Capitals : Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer(c), Colin Ingram, Rishabh Pant(w), Keemo Paul, Axar Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Amit Mishra, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma
Amit Mishra in place of Trent Boult
Chennai Super Kings : Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir
Unchanged XI
*Both teams fielded only 3 overseas players in the playing XIs.
- Kumaran Kumanan
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