IPL 2020 / Delhi Capital defeated Chennai Super Kings by 44 runs

Zoom News : Sep 25, 2020, 11:15 PM
Delhi Capitals defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 44 runs in the 7th match of the 13th season of IPL. This is Delhi's 7th win in 22 matches against Chennai. Batting after losing the toss, Delhi gave Chennai a target of 176 runs. In reply, Chennai could only manage 131 runs for 7 wickets. The heroes of Delhi's victory were Prithvi Shaw and Kagiso Rabada. Shaw made his 5th fifty in the IPL. He scored a brilliant 64 runs. At the same time, Rabada took 3 wickets.


Chennai Opener cheaply returned Pavilion Chennai Opener once again could not give his team some special start. Shane Watson caught Shimron Hetmyer off Akshar Patel for 14 runs. After this, Murali Vijay was also out on the ball of Enrich Nortje. Vijay scored 10 runs.

Du Plessis completed 2000 runs in IPL. Faf du Plessis completed his 2000 runs in IPL. He is the 33rd player to do so. Plessis touched the figure in 67 innings of 74 matches. He has made 14 fifties in the league so far.

Delhi scored 175 for 3, losing the toss and batting first, Delhi scored 175 for 3 wickets. Prithvi K. Shaw of Delhi made his fifth fifty in the IPL. Prithvi played an innings of 64 runs. Apart from Prithvi, Rishabh Pant scored 37 not out, Shikhar Dhawan scored 35 and Shreyas Iyer scored 26 runs. Marcus Stoinis was 5 not out. Piyush Chawla of Chennai got 2 and Sam Karan got one wicket.

The 50+ run opening partnership against Chennai for the second time was a 94 run opening partnership between Delhi opener batsmen Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw. It is Delhi's second largest opening partnership against Chennai. Earlier in 2008, there was a 115-run opening partnership between Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

So far this season, Jadeja's economy is going to be nothing special for more than 10 Chennai spinners Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja has scored more than 10 economy runs in all three matches so far. In this match too, Jadeja gave 44 runs in 4 overs and could not take any wickets. Jadeja had given 42 runs in 4 overs against Mumbai and 40 against Rajasthan.

Hazlewood replaced Engidi in Chennai by chance, Rayudu and Bravo did not fit in the previous match. Australian fast bowler Lungi Engidi has been replaced by Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood in the playing-11. Ambati Rayudu and Dwayne Bravo are still not fully fit for Chennai. Rayudu did not play the previous match against Rajasthan because of ham string problems. Bravo was out of both matches early this season.

Delhi have included Amit Mishra in place of injured bowler Ravichandran Ashwin and Avesh Khan in place of fast bowler Mohit Sharma.


Both teams are Chennai: Murali Vijay, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Sam Karan, Rituraj Gaikwad, Kedar Jadhav, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain, wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Josh Hazlewood, Deepak Chahar and Piyush Chawla. Delhi: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Marcus Stoinis, Akshar Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Enrich Nortje and Avesh Khan.

If won today, it will be the second team to win 15+ matches against 3 teams. CSK Three time champions (2018, 2011, 2010) CSK If it wins the match, it will become the second team to win more than 15 matches against 3 teams. . Earlier, only Mumbai Indians could do this.

Captain Dhoni is the most expensive player in CSK, the expensive players of both teams. The team will give him Rs 15 crore a season. He is followed by Kedar Jadhav, who will get Rs 7.80 crore this season. At the same time, Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in Delhi with 15 crores and Shimron Hetmyer worth 7.75 crores.

These records will be monitored

MS Dhoni needs 4 sixes to come second in terms of hitting the most sixes in the IPL. With this, he will also become the player to score 300 sixes in T20 cricket.

Delhi's poor record in the UAE, Chennai won 4 out of 5 matches due to the Lok Sabha elections, South Africa in IPL 2009 and the first 20 matches of the 2014 season were held in the UAE. Delhi's record in the UAE was very poor then. The team then won 2 out of 5 matches here and lost 3. On the other hand, Chennai won 4 out of 5 matches in the UAE. Talking of the over record, Delhi has won only 6 out of 21 matches against Chennai so far. Last season, Delhi lost all 3 matches to Chennai.

Delhi is the only team that has not played the final so far, Delhi is the only team that could not play the final till now. However, Delhi reached the semi-finals in the tournament's opening two seasons (2008, 2009). In Delhi Capitals, it will be the responsibility of the young players to win their team. Young batsmen like captain Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw are key players in the team.

CSK has the highest success rate in the IPL, with the Capitals playing 178 matches in the league so far, winning 78 and losing 98. 2 matches were inconclusive. At the same time, CSK has so far won 101 matches out of 167 and lost 65. A match has been inconclusive. Delhi has a success rate of 43.82% and CSK has the highest 60.47%.

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