- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.1 edged and grabbed by Dhawan at slip. All-new season. Same-old powerplay problems for CSK. Test-match line and length from Woakes. Perfectly-pitched ball, full, angling in at off, so Gaikwad has to play at this. He has a firm-handed jab at it from the crease and the Woakes' outswing coaxes the outside edge. Dhawan takes a smart, low catch to his right 7/21.4 another inducker from Avesh, pins the front pad. Faf has been given out lbw. He has a chat with Gaikwad, and then walks off. Much fuller and skids back at 140ks, a crease-bound Faf searches for the drive, but is rushed for pace and ends up wearing it on his front pad in line with off. That looked pretty adjacent. Faf bags a duck in CSK's season-opener. The tracker returns umpire's call on middle - bail-trimmer 7/18.3 Moeen aims for the 'V' behind the wicket now, but ends up holing out to Dhawan. He pre-meditates a reverse-swat, Ashwin pulls his length back and slides it into leg stump. Moeen can only splice it into the night sky. Dhawan runs back and then around from short third man before coolly settling under it 60/315.1 short on the hips, clipped away through square leg. There's a mix-up between the wickets and Raina has to go. Plus, Jadeja colliding with Avesh didn't help CSK. Jadeja turns around for the double, runs into the bowler. Around this point, Raina is almost halfway down the pitch. The throw from the deep is to Pant and he takes the bails off to see the back of Raina 137/513.5 100.2ks slower ball outside off, back-of-the-hand stuff from Curran. Rayudu aims to pump it down the ground, but didn't read this change-up. The bottom hand is yanked off the bat as he slices a loft to Dhawan at long-off 123/415.3 Dhoni bags a duck on return. Avesh pounds it on a hard length and outside off. Dhoni swings at a pull first ball and can only drag it back onto the stumps 137/619.6 knocks him over! Woakes has delivered under pressure. CSK finish with 188. And that has a lot to do with the Curran on Curran action not so long ago. Sam tries to reprise those big hitting heroics against a slightly more experienced death bowler in Woakes and the full and straight ball has a little too much heat 188/7Extras10 (lb 7, nb 1, w 2)TOTAL188/7 (20 Overs, RR: 9.4)Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Faf du Plessis, 1.4 ov), 2-7 (Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2.1 ov), 3-60 (Moeen Ali, 8.3 ov), 4-123 (Ambati Rayudu, 13.5 ov), 5-137 (Suresh Raina, 15.1 ov), 6-137 (MS Dhoni, 15.3 ov), 7-188 (Sam Curran, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB CR Woakes 3 0 18 2 6.00 11 3 0 0 0 Avesh Khan 4 0 23 2 5.75 11 3 0 1 0 R Ashwin 4 0 47 1 11.75 9 4 4 0 0 TK Curran 4 0 40 1 10.00 7 4 2 1 0 A Mishra 3 0 27 0 9.00 4 0 2 0 0 MP Stoinis 2 0 26 0 13.00 4 2 2 0 1
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR13.3 After having seen two catches dropped off his bowling, Moeen hangs onto one at sweeper cover. Full and wide, Bravo rolls out another cutter. Shaw tries to reach out for it, he loses his balance in the process and drops down to his knee, carving a catch to the outfielder. End of a sensational innings that has all but sealed the chase for DC 138/116.3 yorker and tails in so very late to strike the pad bang in front of middle. Dhawan shuffled across off for the wider one, but Thakur finally gets his line and length right this time 167/218.3 Holes out to Curran at deep midwicket. Banged into the middle of the pitch, Stoinis can't get hold of the pull. He splices it to deep midwicket, where Curran lunges forward to snaffle it 186/3Extras4 (nb 1, w 3)TOTAL190/3 (18.4 Overs, RR: 10.17)Fall of wickets: 1-138 (Prithvi Shaw, 13.3 ov), 2-167 (Shikhar Dhawan, 16.3 ov), 3-186 (Marcus Stoinis, 18.3 ov)
Match Details
Toss
Delhi Capitals , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
10 April 2021 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Delhi Capitals 2, Chennai Super Kings 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 33 runs, 2 wickets)
- Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 8.1 overs (49 balls), Extras 3
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 37 balls (MM Ali 36, SK Raina 16, Ex 1)
- Strategic Timeout: Chennai Super Kings - 60/3 in 8.3 overs (SK Raina 16)
- Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 12.1 overs (74 balls), Extras 4
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 24 balls (SK Raina 28, AT Rayudu 17, Ex 5)
- SK Raina: 50 off 32 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Chennai Super Kings - 137/5 in 15.1 overs (RA Jadeja 10)
- Chennai Super Kings: 150 runs in 16.6 overs (103 balls), Extras 9
- 7th Wicket: 50 runs in 25 balls (RA Jadeja 15, SM Curran 34, Ex 1)
- Innings Break: Chennai Super Kings - 188/7 in 20.0 overs (RA Jadeja 26)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 65 runs, 0 wicket)
- Delhi Capitals: 50 runs in 4.4 overs (28 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (PP Shaw 23, S Dhawan 27, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Delhi Capitals - 65/0 in 6.0 overs (PP Shaw 36, S Dhawan 29)
- PP Shaw: 50 off 27 balls (7 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Delhi Capitals: 100 runs in 10.1 overs (61 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 61 balls (PP Shaw 52, S Dhawan 49, Ex 0)
- S Dhawan: 50 off 35 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Delhi Capitals: 150 runs in 14.5 overs (90 balls), Extras 1
- Strategic Timeout: Delhi Capitals - 158/1 in 16.0 overs (S Dhawan 77, RR Pant 7)
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