Axar Patel and Shimron Hetmyer
Shimron Hetmyer He played some great shots under pressure to propel Delhi Capitals to a three-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings to seal a top two spot in the Indian Premier League here on Monday.
To reach the target of 137, 28 runs were needed in the last three overs, Guyana took 12 runs. dwayne bravo And then came 10 off pacer Josh Hazlewood to bring the equation down to six runs off six balls.
Despite losing Axar Patel, DC completed the task with two balls to spare.
Hetmyer remained unbeaten on 28 off 18 balls, including a crucial six in the final over.
A disciplined performance by Delhi Capitals bowlers restricted Chennai Super Kings to 136 for five despite an unbeaten 55 off 43 balls. Ambati Rayudu.
Attractive Prithvi Shaw He hit three fours in seven balls to extend DC’s innings, but, trying to go for one too many, the Mumbaikar threw his wicket away when he failed to negotiate Deepak Chahar’s extra bounce and Faf du Plessis Runs backwards from mid off to complete the catch.
Josh Hazlewood bowled a tough fourth over, conceding only three runs, but Shikhar Dhawan (39 off 35 balls) hit Chahar for 21 runs in the fifth over by hitting two sixes and as many fours.
However, Hazlewood cut Shreyas Iyer’s (2) short in the middle when he could not execute a pull shot.
Ravindra Jadeja Rishabh Pant (15) was sent back when the DC skipper tried to sweep the fast ball off the left-arm spinner.
Debutant Ripple Patel hit two boundaries as DC needed 53 off 54 balls, but Jadeja came back to get the better of the Gujarat freshman.
R Ashwin also followed suit and when Dhawan, having overturned through a review off three balls after deciding against him, played to cover Shardul Thakur in a soft-out, then DC six at the end of the 15th over. Were in trouble for 99 runs on the wicket.
Thakur returned impressive figures of 2/13 in four overs, while Jadeja scored 2/28.
Substitute fielder K Gowtham dropped Shimron Hetmyer at a crucial stage of the game, with the ball going across the ropes.
Earlier, Rayudu completed his half-century when he dismissed Enrique Nortje for a boundary after an extra six in the 19th over of the innings, of which CSK scored 14.
However, Avesh Khan bowled a brilliant final over in which he conceded only four runs taking the wicket of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (18).
Rayudu hit five fours and two sixes during his stay in the middle.
A large part of DC’s bowling effort was far from fast bowler Nortje’s horrific first over, when he conceded 16 runs, nine of which came with leg byes and a bye, which Rishabh Pant did not get his hands on despite a diving effort Can you
In between, Ruturaj Gaikwad was given out lbw, but the decision was overturned after reviewing the batsman as TV replays showed the ball was missing from the leg-stump.
At the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, CSK scored 26 runs in just two overs and hit two fours on either side of the wicket to Faf du Plessis against Avesh Khan.
There was swing on offer, but the DC bowlers were unable to get their act together until left-arm spinner Axar Patel (2/18) pulled du Plessis’ pull shot into the deep mid-wicket area held by Shreyas Iyer. did. .
Gaikwad, who is in the form, welcomed Kagiso Rabada Robin Uthappa, with a drive straight down to the ground, is playing the game in place of Suresh Raina, went in the middle.
Nortje removed Gaikwad in the fifth over when the batsman failed to link his pull shot to complete a clean catch for Ravichandran Ashwin.
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