Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals by 80 runs at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai and registered their ninth win of this season and with this win, they also reclaimed the top spot in the points table.
Earlier Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to field first. Trent Boult and J Suchith started off well with the new ball and conceded only three runs in the first three overs and in the fourth over Watson perished off for a 9 balls duck. Suresh Raina and Faf du Plessis rebuilt the innings and Raina's attacking cricket helped Chennai to accelerate and they took the score to 87/1 in the 14th over.
Faf got out after scoring 39 runs. Suresh Raina also brought up his fifty but couldn't convert it into a big one and Chennai reduced to 102/3 in 15 overs. In the last 5 overs, Ravindra Jadeja's cameo of 25 runs off 10 balls and MS Dhoni's 44* off just 22 balls helped Chennai to score 77 runs and thus they ended on 179/4 which was a good score.
In reply, Delhi Capitals started off poorly and out of form Prithvi Shaw once again got out in the single digit score. Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer counterattacked and took score to 52/1 in the 6th over but Harbhajan Singh dismissed Dhawan and broke this stand and after his wicket Delhi lost the plot and kept losing wickets after wickets and lost the last 8 wickets for just 47 runs and bowled out for just 99 and suffered a massive loss of 80 runs. Imran Tahir took 4 wickets while Jadeja sent back three batsmen to pavilion.
MS Dhoni was named Man of the Match for his 44* runs off 22 balls knock.
All the major stats and facts from the 50th match between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals in Chennai :
6 - This was Chennai Super Kings' sixth consecutive win over Delhi Capitals at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai in the IPL. Their last defeat against them at this venue came in IPL 2010.
50 - Suresh Raina became the 11th player to score 50 fifties in T20 cricket.
Most fifties (50-99) in T20 cricket -
80 - Chris Gayle
71 - David Warner
60 - Virat Kohli
55 - Brendon McCullum
54 - Rohit Sharma
53 - AB de Villiers / Aaron Finch / Shikhar Dhawan / Gautam Gambhir
51 - Shoaib Malik
50 - Suresh Raina
80 - Runs win is the sixth biggest win in terms of runs for Chennai Super Kings over Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
99 - Runs total is the tenth lowest total for Delhi Capitals in the IPL history and third lowest total for a team in IPL 2019.
Lowest totals in IPL 2019 -
70 - RCB vs CSK at Chennai
96 - SRH vs MI at Hyderabad
99 - DC vs CSK at Chennai
108/9 - KKR vs CSK at Chennai
100 - Suresh Raina became the first ever fielder to take 100 catches in the Indian Premier League.
Most catches by fielders in IPL -
100 - Suresh Raina
84 - AB de Villiers
82 - Rohit Sharma
80 - Kieron Pollard
72 - Virat Kohli / Dwayne Bravo
202 - Number of sixes MS Dhoni has hit for Chennai Super Kings in T20 cricket - only the second batsman after Suresh Raina (208) to hit 200 sixes for Chennai in this format.
