Chennai Super Kings register Dramatic Win Over Delhi Daredevils By One Run
09 April, Chennai.
In the IPL Cricket, Played at the Chennai MA Chidambaram Stadium, local outfit Chennai Super Kings register a dramatic win against Delhi Daredevils by just one run .
CSKs Ashish Nehra was adjudged as the Man of the Match for his excellent spell bagging 3 wickets for 25.
Chasing a modest target of 151 set by CSK, the DD scored 149 losing 9 wickets in stipulated 20 voers.
Albie Morkel the only DD batsman who withstood the Bowling attack of CSK and was guiding towards victory by scoring useful 73 Runs off 55 balls , could not save the team . No body give partnership to Morkel and wickets fell at regular intervals that cost DD the match.
However, Raina’s stop off the penultimate fall really made the difference in the match that was going in favour of DD.
Yuvraj Singh who was roped in for a record fee of Rs.16 crore failed to perform Today. He scored only 9 out of six balls before getting out Playing a poor short off Dwayne Bravo.
Even Captain JP Duminy, who came after Yuvaraj’s exist , fell to Mohit Sharma scoring only 5 runs .
Excepting Albie Morkel, Kedar Jadhav , Mayank Agrawal , no other players could reach double digit.
For CSK Asish Nehra was the most successful bowler to clinch 3 wickets giving 23 runs in his four overs , while Mohit Sharma , Ravi Chandra Aswin and Iswar Pandey got one wicket each. Dwane Bravo bagged two wickets .
Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field.
Earlier, JP Duminy led Delhi Daredevils had restricted the Chennai Super Kings To 7/ 150 in the stipulated 20- overs .
Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field. Despite good start , CSK were under pressure losing important wickets early . Known for hitting skills , Drendon McCullum and Suresh Raina filed Dhoni as they got out scoring 4 runs each.
For CSK, Dwayne Smith scored highest 34 runs followed By Faf du Plessis 32 and M S Dhoni 30
Dhoni had hit two sixes .
In the tournament opener yesterday, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets at the Eden Gardens. Kolkata pacer Morne Morkel was adjudged man of the match.