Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings are facing each other in the top of the table clash in the Indian Premier League 2021. Dubai International Stadium is hosting this match which will determine who will finish the league stage at the top of the points table.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field first. Rishabh Pant named one change in their playing XI as Ripal Patel makes his debut in place of Steve Smith. MS Dhoni came up with a plethora of changes. Sam Curran made way for Dwayne Bravo while KM Asif and Suresh Raina were replaced by Deepak Chahar and Robin Uthappa.
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CSK scored 136/5 in 20 overs after batting first.
Chasing the target, Prithvi Shaw got out early after scoring 18 runs in 12 balls. Shikhar Dhawan, however, wasn’t bothered by this and started scoring boundaries from the word go but didn’t get assistance from his teammates.
Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and debutant Ripal Patel spent time in the middle but couldn’t stick around for long. Shardul Thakur changed the momentum of the game in the 15th over when he dismissed Ravichandran Ashwin and well-set Shikhar Dhawan in the same over.
Axar Patel and Shimron Hetmyer were batting in the middle and had the responsibility to take DC home. Dwayne Bravo came to bowl the 17th over. Hetmyer targeted him and went for a slog. K Gowtham was fielding on long-on and had an easy catch coming his way but he dropped a sitter and conceded a boundary.
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On the match’s front, CSK batsmen struggled to get going and wickets were falling at regular intervals. MS Dhoni came out to bat at number 6. He played 27 balls and managed to score just 18 runs without hitting a single boundary. Ambati Rayudu scored an unbeaten fifty and helped CSK to post 136/5 in 20 overs.
