IPL 2020: Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings by 44 runs, jump to top spot in the standings
IPL 2020 : Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings with the aid of using forty four runs to sign up their 2nd consecutive win of IPL 2020 on the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Chasing 176 to win, Chennai Super Kings were given off to a terrible begin as they misplaced each their openers Shane Watson and Murali Vjay in the powerplay. Watson were given out to Axar Patel even as Vijay became eliminated with the aid of using Anrich Nortje. Ruturaj Gaikwad who got here into bat at No. four failed to affect as he were given run out after scoring simply 5 runs. After dropping brief wickets, Faf du Plessis and Kedar Jadhav stitched a respectable partnership to hold CSK hopes alive in the sport. Anrich Nortje brushed off Jadhav handy his facet a critical breakthrough. MS Dhoni got here in to bat however the harm became already done. Nortje and Rabada bowled brilliantly toward the quit to seal the large for his or her facet. Earlier, Prithvi Shaw (sixty four off 43) scored his fifth IPL half-century as Delhi Capitals published 175/three towards CSK. Shaw were given guide from his beginning companion Shikhar Dhawan (35 runs off 27) who performed with extra warning up the front however extra than made up for it as soon as the sphere limit have been lifted. The duo delivered 36 runs withinside the first six overs with none loss and capitalised at the begin after the powerplay, taking competitive method towards the CSK spinners. Both the gamers located limitations at will and seemed they’ll take the sport farfar from them. However that became now no longer to be as Piyush Chawla paid off his captain’s religion on him with the aid of using casting off each the openers in brief succession to forestall the run flow.
