We need to win six out of six, which is the only motivation we can take into the remaining games.
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Not for nothing are Chennai Super Kings one of the great teams in 20-over cricket.
When will the Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils match be played?
After Gautam Gambhir made a decision to step down and Shreyas Iyer was given the commands, DD posted the highest total of the season and Shook all 10 KKR’s wickets, winning by 55 runs. Among those were handing IPL debuts to 24-year old Kerala fast bowler KM Asif and South Africa’s Lungi Ngidi. His fourth wicket stand of 79 with Dhoni came off just 36 balls.The Super Kings was able to complete a third half century of the IPL-11 with a double off the final ball of the innings.
Big names Colin Munro (26), skipper Shreyas Iyer (13), who played a huge role in Delhi’s last win and Glenn Maxwell (6) failed to score which resulted in their loss.
Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Karn Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Mark Wood, Shardul Thakur. But at the other end, Rayudu, who has become such a priced member of the Chennai Super Kings establishment this season, was more sophisticated but no less effective. The entertainment was electric while it lasted.
It was Dhoni’s third fifty of the season which took his tally to 286 runs after eight matches with a strike rate of 169.23 which is his best since IPL’s inception in 2008 and way above his career strike rate of 138.73.
Vijay Shankar hit 53 to make things interesting, but Chennai held on. Delhi Daredevils are having no answers to stop the pair of Watson and du Plessis.
At the top of the order, Watson was unstoppable after Boult nearly had him trapped in front of the stumps with a pacy inswinger at the start of the match. Instead, umpire Anil Dandekar ruled that he had got an inside-edge just before the ball thudded into his pad.
Watson wages war: Shane Watson found touch in Pune in a blitzkrieg that earned him player of the match against Delhi.
But the total Dad’s Army put on the board was more than enough for them to walk past the line.
In the 14th over, while trying to pace up the innings, Watson, who was clearing fences at will, mistimed his shot off veteran leg-spinner Amit Mishra and was caught by Liam Plunkett.
Considering the wicket at the MCA stadium, English pacer David Willey, who came as a replacement for injured Kedar Jadhav, might replace injured Deepak Chahar, who is out for a week with an injury.
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Even as du Plessis limped along, Watson teed off with unerring accuracy, targeting the leg-side boundary.
