Tonight, Chennai Super Kings broke many hearts as the match was won by the Delhi Daredevils by 34 balls at their home ground at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium. Before the match started, Delhi Daredevils were invited to bat first asthe toss was won by MS Dhoni and he chose to bowl first.
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The first innings started slow at first, the openers Prithvi Shaw with 17 runs and Shreyas Iyer with 19 runs, went back to pavilion after a few overs. The star player of the team, Rishabh Pant scored 38 runs off 26 balls. Vijay Shankar scored 36 off the 28 balls he faced. On the other hand, Harshal Patel too remained unbeaten till the last ball and played a sensational knock by scoring a quick 36 off the 16 balls, hitting 4 sixes and 1 fours.
Tonight, the players of Chennai Super Kings were high on confidence as they didn’t allowed any free runs to the players of Delhi Daredevils. Lungi Nagidi, the ace bowler of CSK stunned everyone with his exceptional bowling skills by taking two big wickets tonight, including Rishabh Pant.
The players of Delhi Daredevils anyhow stretched the scores to 162 runs and gave it as a target to the players of Chennai Super Kings.
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In the second innings too, the bowlers of Delhi Daredevils outplayed the batsmen of Chennai Super Kings. The second innings were started brilliantly by Ambatti Rayudu, who scored 50 runs off 29 balls. Shane Watson on the other hand, went back to pavilion after a few overs, he scored 14 balls off the 23 balls.
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The skipper of the team, MS Dhoni couldn’t contribute much to the total scores and went back to pavilion after he was caught-out by Shreyas Iyer. He scored 17 runs off the 23 balls. Suresh Raina, too couldn’t add more to the total runs and dismissed after scoring 17 runs off the 23 balls. Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten at the score of 27 runs off the 18 balls he played.
The bowlers and fielders of Delhi Daredevils took away the match from Chennai Super Kings and won the match by 34 runs. Trent Boult and Amit Mishra took two wickets each.
Here’s how twitteratis reacted to Delhi Daredevils victory over Chennai Super Kings, have a look:
While the focus is on #CSK’s lack of bowling prowess in the death overs, the form of Billings and a little underwhelming Raina (he’s expected to have clocked 400 by now) mustn’t go unnoticed. #DDvCSK #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 18, 2018
The last over of the first innings (26 runs), bowled by @DJBravo47, was the sheer game changer as @msdhoni could’ve easily given it to either Chahar or @NgidiLungi!
Never underestimate any team at any stage and @DelhiDaredevils have proven it!! ? #DDvCSK #VIVOIPL2018
— Sarath Menon (@sarathcastic) May 18, 2018
#DDvCSK best figures from sandeep lamichhane #jay nepal #sandeeplamichhane
— Dinesh Airi (@dinesh_airi) May 18, 2018
@HarshalPatel23 just won Man of the Match award. The end is near. #IPL2018 #DDvCSK
— Akhil Talashi (@akhiltalashi) May 18, 2018
#DDvCSK
I sense DD will beat MI and stop mumbai from reaching playoffs ..
Spinners are doing fabulous jobs for Delhi ..
Kudos @IamSandeep25 Amit mishra, @RishabPant777 ..— IamPrabhaskarJha_12 (@PrabhaskarJha) May 18, 2018
#DDvCSK
I sense DD will beat MI and stop mumbai from reaching playoffs ..
Spinners are doing fabulous jobs for Delhi ..
Kudos @IamSandeep25 Amit mishra, @RishabPant777 ..— IamPrabhaskarJha_12 (@PrabhaskarJha) May 18, 2018
@ChennaiIPL lost the match to @DelhiDaredevils and Thala Dhoni didn’t finished in style just because, there were no bowlers like Siraj, Negi, Sundar & Anderson in tonight’s match ?#DDvCSK
— Ashraf Afridi (@Ashraf_afridi10) May 18, 2018
Happy that bowling was getting better when compared to previous matches. An off day for batting side. Wake up guys ??#DDvCSK
— Shyam Sunder (@ishyamss) May 18, 2018
What can delhi do in next season. What went wrong for you #KentCricketLive @MayantiLanger_B #DDvCSK ask boult
— Mukund a.r (@Mukutweets) May 18, 2018
Gr8 win by @DelhiDaredevils tonight against the best chasing side of #IPL2018 ? Credit to the bowlers specially @IamSandeep25 @MishiAmit & Harshal Patel for hitting 3 sixes in the last over? @ChennaiIPL have to win their last match now to be in the top 2 position?#DDvCSK #IPL
— Mayank Agarwal (@Mayankk0611) May 18, 2018
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well played @IamSandeep25 #DDvCSK congratulations,,,future seems bright??
— ccr (@Me_ccr) May 18, 2018
#DDvCSK it’s a test match for #CSK to rectify the weakness of our player and to strengthen it for final. Well played #DD
— manikandan (@I_manikandan94) May 18, 2018
Congratulation @IamSandeep25
Stylish player of the match#DilDilli #Dhadkega #DDvCSK— Tezz Magar (@Tezz_Mgr) May 18, 2018
This boy! ?
What a spell from @IamSandeep25!#DilDilli #Dhadkega #DDvCSK pic.twitter.com/w7yO7J0hhk
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) May 18, 2018
Hard result to take. The margin will look huge for the team. Getting back stronger and with all the #Yellove support will be namma lions! #WhistlePodu #Yellove #DDvCSK ??
— Chennai Super Kings – Mask P?du Whistle P?du! (@ChennaiIPL) May 18, 2018
WWWWIIIIIIICCCKKKKEEETTTTT!!!@IamSandeep25 GETS RAINA! ?#DilDilli #Dhadkega #DDvCSK
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) May 18, 2018
Delhi Daredevils in #IPL2018 have so far won just 4 games
beat MI – the 3 time #IPL title winner
beat KKR – the 2 time IPL title winner
beat CSK – the 2 time IPL title winner
beat RR – the inagural IPL winner#DDvCSK— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 18, 2018
WHAT. AN. OVER!!!
KYA BANDA HAI YAAR! BEAUTIFUL BOWLING BY @IamSandeep25! ?
CSK need 71 runs in 35 balls.#DilDilli #Dhadkega #DDvCSK pic.twitter.com/hdrv46yz7Q
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) May 18, 2018
3K runs for our Bahubali in IPL! Stand up Roar whistles. We just can’t get enough. Keep whacking them Rayudu! #WhistlePodu #Yellove #DDvCSK ?? pic.twitter.com/wm3qpvSQaQ
— Chennai Super Kings – Mask P?du Whistle P?du! (@ChennaiIPL) May 18, 2018
Thala giving all due credit to the DD bowling and mentioning about the pitch and how difficult it was to bat on!#WhistlePodu #Yellove #DDvCSK ??
— Chennai Super Kings – Mask P?du Whistle P?du! (@ChennaiIPL) May 18, 2018
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