Warner’s Delhi on brink after Chennai defeat

David Warner’s Delhi Capitals are on the point of elimination from the IPL playoff race after Chennai Tremendous Kings exploited a gradual pitch to beat them by 27 runs.

Delhi by no means discovered momentum as soon as they misplaced Warner with out scoring, to simply his second ball, and so they have been restricted to 8-140.

Chennai, who received the toss and elected to bat, struggled within the first half however Ravindra Jadeja (21) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (20) lifted the whole to 8-167

Chennai transfer into second place, with 15 factors, behind table-toppers Gujarat Titans (16 factors). Delhi have simply eight factors from 11 video games.

Warner was outdone by the slowness of the pitch as he gave an easy catch to Ajinkya Rahane within the covers off quick bowler Deepak Chahar’s second ball.

Chahar struck once more within the powerplay when Phil Salt (17) top-edged at mid-on. Mitch Marsh (5) was then run out after a mix-up with influence participant Manish Pandey as Delhi slipped to 3-25 within the fourth over.

Pandey and Rilee Rossouw (35) mixed in a half-century stand however each batters received tied down by spinner Jadeja (1-19) and Moeen Ali (0-16) earlier than Sri Lanka quick bowler Matheesha Pathirana (3-37) choked Delhi additional along with his sensible yorkers.

Pathirana had Pandey leg earlier than wicket with an excellent yorker in his first over and likewise claimed the wickets of Axar Patel and Lalit Yadav with modifications of tempo to cap an excellent all-round present by the house crew.

Earlier, Kiwi Devon Conway could not capitalise on some early shut calls earlier than he was trapped lbw by left-arm spinner Patel (2-27) off his first ball.

Delhi did not go for a tv referral when Khaleel Ahmed discovered a skinny exterior of Conway’s bat and the left-handed opener additionally survived an lbw referral towards off-spinner Lalit Yadav.

Patel accounted for the wicket of Ruturaj Gaikwad (24) in his second over after which Yadav took a splendid low one-handed return catch of Rahane off his personal bowling as Delhi continued to strike with common intervals.

Delhi regarded to have contained Chennai when Ambati Rayudu (23) fell within the seventeenth over however Jadeja and Dhoni smashed two boundaries and three sixes between them to boost the crew’s complete within the final three overs.

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