Chennai Super Kings thrashed Delhi Capitals within the fifty fifth match of IPL 2023 to move closer to qualification of the Playoffs. In the match performed at CSK’s homeground, MA Chidambaram stadium, MS Dhoni-led group received by 27 runs on Wednesday. After successful the toss and coming to bat first, CSK batters scored 167/8 in 20 overs. In response, DC batters managed to rating simply 140 runs.
CSK have now bought 15 factors and are presently on the second place om the factors desk with two matches to go. If CSK win even one in all their upcoming matches, they will qualify for the Playoffs as they will get 17 factors. They gave their subsequent matches in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders and DC on May 14 and May 20, respectively.
On the opposite hand, DC have failed to bounce from the final place and have 8 factors in 11 matches performed with NRR of -0.605. It has turn out to be tough for them to make it to the playoffs as even when they win the remaining video games, they will nonetheless attain 14 factors.
Delhi’s batting was underwhelming within the match. They had a nasty begin and their captain David Warner, who got here to open, returned with out scoring any runs. After this, Mitchell Marsh was additionally ready to rating solely 5 runs. Delhi’s batting line-up collapsed as Phil Salt (17) and Manish Pandey (27), Riley Russouw (35), Ripal Patel (10) and Axar Patel (21) additionally couldn’t rating a lot. Pathirana took 3 wickets for CSK.
Batting first on this match, CSK had a sluggish begin as Devon Conway, who got here to open scored 10 runs earlier than getting dismissed. On the opposite hand, his companion Ruturaj Gaikwad performed an innings of 24 runs. Apart from this, Ajinkya Rahane scored 21, Mooen Ali scored 7 and Shivam Dube scored 25 runs. However, in the long run, Ravindra Jadeja scored 21 runs and Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 20 runs in 9 balls to information their group to an above-par complete.
