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Delhi Capitals got off to a winning start in the IPL 2020, beating Kings XI Punjab in the super over. © BCCI
DC WIN!! Clinical win from Delhi Capitals, who make it two wins in two games.Having set CSK 176 to win, which at the midway stage, they would've thought to have been at least 20 short, was more than enough in the end, as they restricted Chennai to 131/7 to pick up a 44-run win. Delhi, after being asked to bat first, were impressively disciplined from the start. A superb start from Delhi's openers set the platform for a big score. Shaw got to a half-century after a let-off early on as CSK pulled things towards the end as Delhi finished with 175/3 with the frontline pacers in Deepak Chahar and Josh Hazlewood failing to pick up a wicket.
In a high-scorer, CSK's openers struggled with DC's talented bowling lot coming to the fore. Watson and Vijay struggled upfront, with too much dependence on Faf du Plessis once again, who got among the runs. Dhoni came in earlier than he did in the last two games, but with the slow start they had, it hurt the chase, with no point of recovery. All in all, credit should be given where due, Delhi were outstanding today, ticking all boxes, except maybe their catching, with a few dropped catches, that they'd like to better going forward.
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Dhoni and Jadeja are in the middle, but the game looks far away from CSK.
SLIPPING FURTHER: Du Plessis was dropped off the previous delivery by Hetmyer once again, but on the next ball, du Plessis went after a wide delivery and managed to only get an outside edge that was taken by the 'keeper.
GETS TOUGHER!75 from 24 now. And Jadhav was trapped plumb in front by Nortje in that 16th over and Dhoni is out in the middle. You must say that this definitely looks out of reach.