IPL Live 2021 / Delhi Capitals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets

Zoom News : Apr 10, 2021, 11:54 PM
Rishabh Pant, playing IPL for the first time as captain, has won the first match of the 14th season. In the match played in Mumbai, Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 7 wickets. This is Delhi's third consecutive win against Chennai. Last season, Chennai played 2 matches against Shreyas Iyer captained Delhi team and lost in both.

Pant, who considers Dhoni as a model, defeated Mahi in the first toss in the very first match of his captaincy. After that, he also defeated in the match. Pant was also ahead in batting. Pant, the young wicket-keeper batsman, scored 15 runs off 12 balls, while Dhoni could not open the account by playing 2 balls and was clean bowled.


Dhawan-Prithvi Shaw's Fifty

Batting first after losing the toss, the Chennai team scored 188 runs losing 7 wickets. In response, Delhi Capitals lost 190 wickets and scored 190 runs to win the match. Opener Shikhar Dhawan scored 85 off 54 balls and Prithvi Shaw scored 72 runs off 38 balls. Chennai fast bowler Shardul Thakur took 2 wickets and Dwayne Bravo took 1 wicket.

Prithvi Shaw gets 2 lives, in the match, Prithvi Shaw gets two lives. Mitchell Santner missed his easy catch on the second ball of the first 8th over. The over was of Moin Ali. At this time, Prithvi was playing for 38 runs. The second Jeevan Jadan got the third ball of the 10th over. This time Rituraj Gaikwad missed the catch at the ball of Moin. At this time, Prithvi was playing for 47 runs.

For the first time since 2015, both Delhi openers put a fifty in a match

Delhi team started fast in response to the target of 189 runs. Opener Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan had added 50 runs off 28 balls.

Delhi team scored 65 runs in the power-play (6 overs) without losing wickets. Dhoni tried 3 fast bowlers Deepak Chahar, Sam Karan and Shardul Thakur during this period, but all were unsuccessful.

Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw had completed 100 runs in 61 balls. Both openers also completed their respective Fifty. In 12 overs, the team's score was 121 runs without a wicket.

For the first time after 5 seasons, both Delhi openers put up a fifty in the same innings. Earlier in 2015, Mayank Agarwal scored 52 and Shreyas Iyer scored 54 against Kings XI Punjab.

The team's first wicket fell at 138 runs. Prithvi Shaw was caught out for a quick run. This first success was given to Chennai by Dwayne Bravo.

Shardul Thakur brought Chennai the second success with a score of 167. He LBW Dhawan heading towards the century. However, it was quite late by then.

Dhawan and Prithvi had done their work. Finally, Captain Pant and Marcus Stoinis led the team to victory.


Avesh Khan took 2 wickets

Chennai Super Kings scored 188 runs losing 7 wickets. Suresh Raina scored the highest 54 off 36 balls. Apart from him, Moin Ali scored 36, Sam Karan 34, Ravindra Jadeja 26 and Ambati Rayudu scored 23 runs. Fast bowler Avesh Khan took 2 wickets for Delhi.

Raina's 39th FIFT in IPL, equals Kohli-Rohit

Suresh Raina made his 39th fifty in the IPL. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma also equaled the most in terms of Fifty. The trio are jointly at number three. The highest number of 48 fifties in the league is named David Warner. Shikhar Dhawan is at number two with 41 fifty.


CSK's poor start, Raina took 2 big partnerships

The Chennai team had a very poor start. The team lost 2 wickets in 2 consecutive overs for 7 runs. Avesh Khan LBW to Faf du Plessis in the second over of the match.

Chris Woakes, with the third over, got Rituraj Gaikwad caught by Shikhar Dhawan. Rituraj scored 5 runs off 8 balls.

The CSK team scored 33 runs losing 2 wickets in the power-play (6 overs). Raina shared a 53-run partnership with Moin Ali for 38 balls for the third wicket.

The team got its third setback for 60 runs. Moin Ali returned to bat at number three, but Raina held one end.

Raina completed his fifty with a six on the last ball of the 13th over. He partnered 63 runs off 33 balls for the fourth wicket with Rayudu.

The Chennai team lost the fourth wicket in the form of Ambati Rayudu at a score of 123. Tom Karan sent Rayudu to the pavilion for 23 runs.

The team was able to add 14 runs that Suresh Raina, playing FIFTY, was runout in the affair of stealing a run. Raina scored 54 off 36 balls.

The team lost 2 wickets in a row on 137 runs. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni returned to the pavilion after Raina. Avesh Khan bowled cleanly to Dhoni without opening an account.

CSK added 52 runs losing 3 wickets in the last 5 overs. Jadeja and Sam Karan shared 51 runs off 28 balls for the 7th wicket.

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