Yesterday’s match played at Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi) between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils was really exciting and thrilling until the last ball of the match was bowled. The Chennai Super Kings defeated the Delhi Daredevils by 4 wickets.

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field first. Delhi Daredevils started their Innings with a strong foundation. The opener Gautham Gambhir scored a brilliant 80 runs off 49 balls (11 boundaries and 1 sixer). The team’s skipper Sehwag scored 23 runs off 18 balls. Ab de Villiers was dismissed for a duck. Dhawan played a knock of 59 runs off 46 balls (6 boundaries and 2 sixers). At the end of 20 overs, Delhi Daredevils scored a challenging 187 runs.

Chasing the huge target of 188 runs, the Chennai Super Kings started their Innings thru their openers Vidyut and Fleming. Both the batsmen ensured to pile up quick runs for their team’s victory. Vidyut scored 40 runs off 23 balls (6 boundaries and 1 sixer) and Fleming scored 44 runs off 28 balls (7 boundaries). Dhoni scored a decent 33 runs. At one point of time Dhoni’s bat was broken in McGrath’s delivery. Morkel’s fast 30 runs off 15 balls (2 boundaries and 3 sixers) was a breakthrough for Chennai Super Kings in the last few overs of the match which helped them to reach the target. The Chennai Super Kings met their target in the last ball of the innings and won the match by 4 wickets. Dhoni was surprisingly declared the Man of the Match even though there were 2 other batsmen who surpassed his score.

Posted on May 9th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: IPL Cricket