Chennai Super Kings put up all-round show to beat Delhi Capitals

CSK's Dwayne Bravo claimed three wickets for 33 runs.

New Delhi - MS Dhoni might have lost the toss, but CSK used the conditions beautifully at Delhi Capitals' home ground.

Chennai Super Kings put up an excellent all-round performance to beat Delhi Capitals by six wickets and two balls to spare en route to their second straight win in the Indian Premier League at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium on Tuesday.
MS Dhoni might have lost the toss, but Chennai Super Kings used the conditions beautifully at Delhi Capitals' home ground to restrict them to just 147/6 in their 20 overs. Dwayne Bravo was the star of the show for Chennai as he finished with figures of 3/33 from his four overs.
Later, Super Kings bastmen kept things under control as they scored 150 for 4 in 19.4 overs.
Opening batsman Shane Watson (44 off 26) and Suresh Raina (30 off 16 balls) stitched a fine 52-run second wicket partnership after the early exit of opener Ambati Rayudu (5) with 21 runs on board. Both, Watson and Raina fell to the bowling of leg-spinner Amit Sharma before Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav came together with Super Kings' score reading 98 for three in 10.2 overs.
Dhoni and Jadhav batted sensibly as they raised a vital 48-runs fourth-wicket partnership. Kagiso Rabada, bowling the final over, was successful in dismissing Jadhav caught behind by Rishabh Pant, but it was a little late as Chennai needed just two runs to win.
Bravo played two dot balls before sealing the match with a well struck boundary.
Earlier, Shikhar Dhawan struggled his way to a 47-ball 51 as the Delhi Capitals managed to score just 29 runs in the last five overs. This after the Delhi batsmen picked 17 runs from the 14th over of the match from Bravo.
A senior member of the team, one would have expected Dhawan to make it count after spending quality time in the middle, but he failed to accelerate after scoring a laborious fifty as the Chennai bowlers slowed things down by bowling a tight line and length.
Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bat first on a Kotla wicket that wore a typical low and slow look. But taking advantage of the new ball, both Prithvi Shaw and Dhawan looked to take the attack to the Chennai bowlers.
It looked to be going good initially as Shaw started positively against Deepak Chahar, but the pacer had the last laugh as he dismissed Shaw (24) in the 5th over. DC ended the powerplay at 43/1.
The wicket slowed things down quite a bit as Iyer and Dhawan found the going really tough against the Chennai bowlers who slowed the pace and looked to take advantage of the wicket.
Having struggled their way to 65/1 after 10 overs, DC lost skipper Iyer in the 12th over as he was trapped right in front of the wicket by Imran Tahir for a 20-ball 18.
With the scoreboard looking pretty ordinary, Rishabh Pant looked to take the attack to the Chennai bowlers and looked good till Bravo dismissed him in the 16th over, caught brilliantly at deep square-leg by Shardul Thakur. Pant had to walk back for a 12-ball 25 as the score read 120/3.
Colin Ingram didn't bother the scorers much as he was dismissed by Bravo in the same over for just 2 and it was all about looking to play catch-up after that for DC.