Delhi Capitals will take on Chennai Super Kings in their ninth match of IPL 2020 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah tonight.
Delhi Capitals with 12 points from 8 matches is at the second position and are a few wins away from qualifying for the play-offs and their target will be a top-two finish so they will look to earn yet another two important points. They have played good cricket throughout the tournament but the injury to Rishabh Pant weakened their middle order.
Alex Carey came in to keep wickets. Hence in Pant's absence, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, and Marcus Stoinis have to step up and the team will hope that Shaw and Rahane too will come good. In the bowling they have the best attack in the tournament as Rabada, Nortje, Ashwin and Axar Patel all are in good form.
On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings who have only three wins from eight matches are coming with a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad and will look to start a winning streak. Their batsmen are coming back in form and bowling has been good for the last three matches.
Sam Curran is opening now and he will look to give a quick start and the likes of Watson, Rayudu, and MS Dhoni will see the middle overs while Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo will play finishers' role. In the bowling, Deepak Chahar needs to take wickets with the new ball and Dwayne Bravo has to be more attacking in death overs.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 34th match between Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings in Sharjah :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 22
Delhi Capitals won - 7
Chennai Super Kings won - 15
2 - Piyush Chawla needs 2 more wickets to go past Harbhajan Singh's tally of 24 wickets and become the leading wicket-taker against Delhi Capitals in IPL.
50 - Kagiso Rabada needs 1 more wicket to complete 50 wickets in the Indian Premier League.
676 - Shikhar Dhawan has scored 676 runs in 22 innings with 6 fifties against Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
2000 - Faf du Plessis needs 54 more runs to complete 2000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
2000 - Shreyas Iyer needs 21 more runs to achieve the milestone of 2000 runs in the Indian Premier League.
4000 - MS Dhoni needs 9 more runs to become the second batsman after Suresh Raina (4527) to score 4000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
5000 - Ambati Rayudu needs 50 more runs to achieve the milestone of 5000 T20 runs.
