Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings - IPL 5 - 1st innings report
Chennai Super Kings 110/8 (20/20 ov) - Delhi Daredevils won the toss
April 10: On Tuesday, in the 11th match of the current fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Chennai Super Kings posted a meagre total of 110 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs after being put into bat by Delhi Daredevils, who won the toss at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
With a win from two games, Chennai came in the match expecting to turn the tables around in their third game of the season as this tournament has not gone well for Chennai, a side which has been among the heavy weights in IPL since its inception.
On the other hand, the Daredevils were also coming into the match with a win and a loss from two games and were hoping to trigger their winning ways in the third fixture.
The visitors, Chennai received an early wakeup call when they lost their first wicket without a run on the board as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Vijay-c1867 got run out before facing a delivery.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Faf-du-Plessis-c1427 to sail his side out of hostile territory, but with 26 runs on the board the partnership came to an end as du Plessis faltered after hammering 15 runs off 12 deliveries.
With two wickets down, Chennai were certainly in trouble once again and needed the remaining batsmen to bat without fear in order to overcome Delhi.
Then just when Raina and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Subramaniam-Badrinath-c2593 started to look dangerous, the partnership came to its eventual ending on the run out of Raina, who had to walk all the way back to the pavilion after scoring an innings of 17 runs.
Wickets, then just kept falling which the batting side needed to halt in order to post a competitive total on the board, however, Chennai completely failed to cope with the bowling onslaught they were up against, consequently falling on a small total.
Chennai will now have to bowl exceptionally well to restrict http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 from chasing the easy total needed to win the game.
Tags: