On Friday night, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) missed their chance to go on the top of the table after suffering a 34-run defeat against the hosts Delhi Daredevils (DD) at Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi).

CSK decided to field first after winning the toss. Despite the initial struggle, DD managed to put 162/5 on the board in 20 overs after the superb late batting performance.

In reply, CSK batsmen failed to chase that target as Delhi restricted them for 128/6 at the end of 20 overs.

Now, we will briefly talk about some important reasons for CSK’s defeat in this game.

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26 runs conceded in the final over

At the end of the 19th over, DD only managed to score 136/5. While it was looking like they couldn’t even reach the 150-mark, they got 26 runs in the last over. The experienced death-over specialist Dwayne Bravo bowled in that over where Harshal Patel and Vijay Shankar hit total four sixes.

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That final over proved very costly for CSK. It was not the easy pitch for batting as 150+ runs target was tough to achieve.