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IPL 2021 – Match 50 (CSK vs DC) – 3 players battles to watch out
By Shivam Sharma - Oct 4, 2021 8:47 am
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Rishabh Pant’s Delhi Capitals will lock horns against the most dangerous team of the tournament Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in match number 50 of IPL 2021. The journey of both the teams has been very good so far in the tournament and with 9 wins out of 12 games Chennai Super Kings is at the top of the table.

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Kagiso Rabada and Marcus Stoinis bowled well for Delhi Capitals

While Delhi Capitals with 9 wins is at second place as compared to the CSK net run rate. It will be interesting to watch out which team will finish at the top of the table by the end of the second leg of the tournament.

So far in the current season, Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets in the first leg of the game. The clash of young flamboyant batsman Rishab Pant in front of Dhoni’s experience will be worth watching as which cross the line with ease. Having said Let’s take a look at the three players battle to watch out for in a game between Delhi Capitals and Chennai super kings.

  • Ruturaj Gaikwad vs Avesh Khan 

Rituraj Gaikwad has scored more than 500 runs in the season already after a century in the last match, now there is nothing to lose from here, and with Chennai Super Kings, the audience will expect some more explosive innings to be seen from the opener bat Ruturaj Gaikwad in the matches to come. Rituraj Gaikwad has scored 508 runs at an average of 50.80 including 1 century with 3 fifties and 53 fours along with 20 sixes.

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The fast bowler from Delhi Capitals Avesh Khan is the only bowler after Harshal Patel who has taken more than 20 wickets in the IPL season so far. In the season, Avesh Khan has troubled the best of the batsman easily and will try not to give Chennai Super Kings a chance to recover from the initial setbacks in the match.

  • Suresh Raina vs Ravichandran Ashwin

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Suresh Raina looked nervous

Two such players whose initial IPL career started with the same team Chennai Super Kings and there is no opinion in this Suresh Raina is the best middle-order batsman in IPL history. After all, who can forget Raina’s innings of 87 runs in 25 balls against Punjab Kings shows how dangerous at times he can be when he was in the best form of his career. Raina as a great batsman has not been able to do much at present and would like to play some explosive innings now that the team has reached ‘Playoffs’.

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On the other hand, Ravichandran Ashwin has not had much of a season too and would like to end the tournament on a better note from here. Ashwin has proved to be dangerous for the left-handed batsman in his Cricket career and it is worth watching whether Raina will be able to break Ashwin’s plans or strategies.

  • Steve Smith vs Ravindra Jadeja

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Shikhar Dhawan and Steve Smith

The current season hasn’t been anything special for Steve Smith as a batsman. Will anything change from here for Steve Smith or we get some explosive innings from the bat of Steve Smith. As a batsman, he has the ability to play attacking innings and expectations are there in the coming matches. Like Smith, the season hasn’t been great for Jadeja with bat and ball. But he has played some knocks in the tournament and bowled a few quite good spells at crucial points to help the team. As the season is coming to an end Jadeja would like to end on the better side for the team.