Chennai Super Kings’ power-packed batting line-up failed to chase down a target of 163 despite Ambati Rayudu’s flurry (50 off 29 balls) at the top of the order – falling well short on 128-6.
Harshal Patel was the chief architect of Delhi’s fourth win of the tournament – striking unbeaten 36 off 16 balls before bagging 1-24, including the wicket of Rayudu.
This defeat leaves MS Dhoni & Co. two points behind table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad, although both teams have already qualified for the play-offs.
CSK were cautious to begin with, collecting just 22💛 runs off the first five overs.
Rayudu c♊ut loose in the following over, smashing pacer Avesh Khan for 22 runs courtesy three sixes and a four.
Rayudu maintained his rich vein of form with his third fifty of the tournament🉐. He departed the very next ball to leave CSK at 70 for two in 10 overs, needing 93 off the last 60 balls.
Suresh Raiꦇna (15 off 18), dropped by wicketkee♈per Rishabh Pant on the first ball he faced, did not make it count as Nepal spinner Lamichhane had him caught at deep midwicket.
Skipper MS Dhoni (17 off 23) could not do the finishing job for his team which never really got goingꦑ in the chase.
Earlier, Delhi made a decent🤡 start despite the loss of Prithvi Shaw for 17 only to collapse from 78-1 to 97-5 after the dismiꦕssal of captain Shreyas Iyer, bowled by Lungi Ngidi (2-14).
Key man Rishabh Pant (38 off 26) follo🌺wed his skipper back just three runs later, caught at third man by Dwayne Bravo off Ngidi and the clatter continued as Glenn Maxwell (5) was cleaned bowle💮d by Ravindra Jadeja while attempting a reverse sweep.
Vijay Shankar (36 not out off 28) stopped the rot, putting on☂ an unbroken stand of 65 for the sixth wicket with Patel, who struck four sixes off the last over from Bravo.
Here’s how fans on Twitter reacted to the match:
Well pla🍃yed & , 🅠Congratulations on the victory
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
Beauty of the any team can beꦕat any team. Despite a poor sꦑeason this win will mean much for well bowled against a top side.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
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Only the second time in that CSK have failed to chase down aꦉ target. The other loss was against KXIP that they lost by 4 runs. 🐈
— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket)
While the focus is on ’s lack of bowling prowess in the death ovꦑers, the form o🏅f Billings and a little underwhelming Raina (he’s expected to have clocked 400 by now) mustn’t go unnoticed.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
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Highest number of 6sꦦ conceded by bowler in IPL 2018:
24 – Dwayne Bravo
22 – Kuldeep Yadav
20 – Mohammed Siraj
19 – Umesh Yadav
18 – Rashid Khan— FoMA Ramteke (@fomaramteke)
Dwayne Bravo with the ball in death overs (16-20) in :
Till 2017: Avg 17.61, Econ 9.04, A six every 16.5 balls
in 2018: Avg 47💖.83, Econ 11.71, A ꦬsix every 7 balls— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket)
Dwayne bravo you can't survive bowling slow balls everytime!!
𝔍— Thala Academy of Test batting (@immeenus)
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DD beat CSK by 34 runs
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
lost the match to and Thala Dhoni didn't finished in style just because, there were no bowlers like Siraj, Negi, Sundar & Anderson in tonight's match 😂
— Ashraf Afridi (@Ashraf_afridi10)
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