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Third win for Chennai Super Kings

JOHANNESBURG: Chennai Super Kings recorded its third victory in the IPL this season with an 18-run win over Delhi Daredevils at Johannesburg on Saturday.

Set 164 to win, Delhi was hindered by man of the match Shadab Jakati’s accurate spin bowling. He picked up four wickets.

Though IPL debutant David Warner and Dinesh Karthik struck brisk fifties and added 74 runs in nine overs, Delhi was unable to finish strongly in the face of good bowling by Chennai.

Calamitous start

Delhi began calamitously with stand-in skipper Gautam Gambhir out to a blinder by Suresh Raina at point. Medium pacer Sudeep Tyagi then sent one crashing through A.B. de Villiers’s defences.

It was at a precarious 22 for two that Warner decided to cut loose. He whipped Albie Morkel for three consecutive fours (through point, cover and square leg) and then flicked Tyagi to the fine leg fence.

Disaster struck at the other end as Chennai’s orthodox left-armer Jakati produced a beauty that pitched on leg and turned just enough to take Tillakaratne Dilshan’s off stump.

Delhi was 72 for three at the 10 over mark, requiring another 92 to win.

A scampered single off Balaji gave Warner his fifty (51 runs, 40 balls, 5x4, 1x6) before he was stumped by Dhoni off Jakati.

Delhi needed 37 off its last four and Muralitharan bowled a sensational 17th over, clean bowling Mithun Manhas with a doosra and conceding just one run. Murali caught Karthik (52) off Jakati in the next over.

Jakati snapped up his fourth wicket, and effectively ended Delhi’s chase, when he bowled Sangwan for nought.

Earlier, put into bat by Delhi, Chennai began in earnest but a late collapse that saw it lose eight wickets for 52 runs restricted its total to 163 off 20 overs.

Matthew Hayden continued his good form, scoring 30 and taking boundaries off Dirk Nannes’s opening over.

Raina in action

Unlucky to have missed a hundred in the last match, Suresh Raina (32) required two balls to get into action here. The left-hander left alone a wide by Sangwan, patted the next one back to the bowler and launched the third ball he faced over mid off for six.

Chennai had powered its way to 77 for two at the midway mark and, for once, the period of play immediately after the tactical timeout favoured the batting side as Super Kings plundered 29 runs off two overs.

Badri and Raina added 66 runs in 6.5 overs, before medium pacer Rajat Bhatia initiated the slide. He got Raina to hole out to mid wicket and bowled Badrinath.

Both Delhi pacers returned for successful second spells and cleaned up Chennai’s middle and lower order.

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