Delhi Capitals crushed the target of 189 by seven wickets, courtesy- Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw.


Raina’s fifty on his comeback to CSK went in vain, as Pant started his captaincy with a fantastic win.


 




 

Delhi Capitals190 for 3 ( Dhawan 85, Shaw 72) beat Chennai Super Kings 188 for 7 ( Raina 54, Moeen 36, Avesh Khan 2-23) beat 7 wickets.


A night which was known for comebacks from Prithvi Shaw’s return to IPL form crushed Suresh Raina’s homecoming to Chennai Super Kings. The Delhi Capital’s fast bowler did enough damage from the new ball and the old ball to make sure that they restricted the super kings within a low total - Raina scored a fifty to get them to a strictly competitive total. 


Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan started the innings and took the string out of the competitive total with 65 runs in the powerplay, then a little slow down, and a 138 run stand between these two at 10 runs an over. Dhawan played with perfection starting the inning very fast, giving some time to Shaw at the top, then carrying the form when Shaw got out. These two were the perfect ticks for Capital’s plan to go beyond and win their maiden cup.


CSK’s Batting Depth

After the toss that was going through all the people watching IPL was about the batting depth of Super Kings, with Dwayne Bravo coming at No.9. The new ball swung for Chris Woakes and Avesh Khan, and they were full enough to make use of it. Avesh got Faf du Plessis lbw, Woakes got rid of Ruturaj Gaikwad, suddenly after this break-through, the depth didn’t seem to matter. But thanks to Raina and Moeen Ali, the Super Kings went from 7 for 2 in 2.1 overs to finish with 33 in the powerplay. 


Wickets and Breakthrough

Tom Curran and Avesh Khan, though, managed to slow down the over rate of the super kings before the death overs. Curran got Rayudu on the slower ball, Ms. Dhoni went on for a duck on the ball of Avesh Khan. To add to this Raina got to run, vehicle running with Ravindra Jadeja which ran down into the bowler, turning into two, and they had just 38 runs in 5 overs with the 14th over. It wasn’t just the wickets, but just superb defensive bowling, handcuffing the batsman. In the last over of the innings of Super Kings Sam Curran took over his brother Tom Curran for twenty-three runs which provided Super Kings a good finish to their batting innings, but the score was below-par at the flat surface of Wankhede, where chasing teams found it easy to chase.


Dhawan, Shaw must go on 

Ricky Ponting might be in for some throwdowns to Shaw between games. Before the start of this IPL Ricky Ponting gave an interview, when asked about Shaw, he revealed that when Shaw is not in the form he doesn’t like to come to nets and bat, but when he is in the form he likes to come to nets and bat. And he has been in form for a while. However, he has scored runs in Vijay Hazare Trophy with no one watching it. Shaw would have wanted to show everyone that he is back. And he announced a comeback, on the second ball of Deepak Chahar by scoring a whopping four.

Dhawan scored his first big shot to Sam Curran for a four and then a six in the same over. Shaw joined the party in the fifth over, when he took on Shardul Thakur for a four, both of them combined scored three fours in that over of Shardul. Shaw scored at two runs a ball, allowing Dhawan the freedom to be at a more sedate 150 strike rate at the time he got out.


There were many times when both of these men were looking for centuries. Shaw needed 28 out of 51 when he holed out to a Bravo slower ball. Dhawan then kicked on to make sure there was no all-too-familiar late drama. The last 10 balls he faced brought the Capitals 20 runs. He needed 15 out of 22 for a century when he was caught plumb by a Thakur yorker. There was no drama indeed as Capitals got there with eight balls to spare.

So, in the end, Delhi Capitals won the match very easily, they crushed an experienced side i.e. Chennai Super Kings. It was a very good start to Rishabh Pant’s captaincy career, winning the match against the captain from whom he has learned a lot of things, as a player, as a captain, and most importantly as a person.

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