The Delhi Capitals (DC) have registered their second consecutive win in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 as they thrashed the three-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) comfortably by 44 runs. Surprisingly, the CSK was never looking in the match, but the credits also go to Capitals for covering all their bases and making sure they executed their plans after being invited to bat.
Prithvi Shaw played a crucial role in giving the much-needed impetus to DC early in the innings. Shaw played some beautiful strokes taking on the spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla. However, keeping the wickets in hand helped them to launch against the spin-bowling duo of CSK. The latter, however, made a good comeback picking both the opening batsmen.
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Dhawan was the first one to be dismissed as on the other hand, Shaw put on the exhibition of elegant shots during his knock of 64 runs in just 43 balls with the help of nine fours and a six to his name before getting out to Chawla. However, after those dismissals, the DC skipper struggled to get going and the 58-run stand with Rishabh Pant was broken in the 19th over. DC reached a total of 175 runs for the loss of three wickets.
During the chase, CSK batsmen were looking dull as their openers Shane Watson and Murali Vijay struggled for the third match in a row. Faf du Plessis came out to bat at three but the slowness of their innings was the highlight. Amit Mishra and Axar Patel bowled well in the middle overs which barred the CSK batsmen to score consistent runs and the game kept slipping away from the three-time champions.
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Du Plessis tried to accelerate but it wasn’t enough and when even MS Dhoni too came out to bat a position late once again sending Kedar Jadhav ahead of him. Faf was eventually dismissed in the 18th over trying to score quickly and even the might of MS Dhoni, with his waning power couldn’t do anything. Eventually, they finished on just 131 for the loss of six wickets after 20 overs to lose the game by 44 runs.
Hits
Prithvi Shaw (DC)
Prithvi Shaw played a crucial role in giving the much-needed impetus to DC early in the innings. Shaw played some beautiful strokes taking on the spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla. He put on the exhibition of elegant shots during his knock of 64 runs in just 43 balls with the help of nine fours and a six to his name before getting out to Chawla.
Kagiso Rabada (DC)
When CSK was almost out of the game in the last two overs, Rabada stopped the flow of runs. He also took crucial wickets of Faf du Plessis and MS Dhoni. However, he has been known for bowling such spells as in his quota of four overs, Rabada conceded just 26 runs and took 3 wickets.
Flops
Deepak Chahar (CSK)
In all the three games for CSK, Deepak Chahar gave away more than 40 runs in his spell of four overs and it has been hurting them a lot. In the first two matches, he took wickets but, against DC, he failed to take crucial wickets
Murali Vijay (CSK)
Murali Vijay has been most unsuccessful cricketer for CSK in the season so far as he has scored just 32 runs in three games at a below-par strike-rate of 74.
