Delhi Capitals beat Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah and registered their seventh win of the tournament while Chennai Super Kings suffered their sixth loss.
Earlier Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to bat first. Opener Sam Curran got out for a duck in the first over. Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson rebuilt the innings and their 87 runs partnership set the platform for a good score. Faf du Plessis played a good knock of 58 runs. After 15 overs Chennai had 110 plus runs and in the final five overs Ambati Rayudu and Ravindra Jadeja changed their gears and scored around 70 runs and thus Chennai Super Kings finished on 179/4. Rayudu scored 45* runs off 25 balls while Jadeja played a good cameo of 33* off 13 balls.
In reply, Delhi Capitals had a very poor start as Deepak Chahar dismissed Prithvi Shaw for two balls duck and Ajinkya Rahane for 8 runs and at 26/2 they were in trouble. Shikhar Dhawan continued to play his shots and added 68 runs for the third wicket with captain Iyer. Dhawan brought up his fifty. Shreyas Iyer, Marcus Stoinis, and Alex Carey got out at the other end. Dhawan smashed his maiden T20 hundred in the second last over and in the final over Delhi needed 17 runs to win which Axar Patel scored by hitting 3 sixes off Jadeja bowling.
All the major stats and facts from the 34th match between Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings in Sharjah :
3 - Shikhar Dhawan has scored fifty plus runs in each of his last 3 innings in this IPL.
Shikhar Dhawan last 3 IPL innings -
101* vs CSK
57 vs RR
69* vs MI
5 - Deepak Chahar has dismissed Prithvi Shaw in 5 out of 6 innings in the Indian Premier League.
Prithvi Shaw vs Deepak Chahar in IPL -
Innings - 6
Balls - 39
Runs - 38
Dismissals - 5
27 - Number of matches Kagiso Rabada took to reach 50 IPL wickets - the fastest ever to reach this milestone in terms of matches and he is also the fastest to reach here in terms of balls.
Fastest to 50 IPL wickets (By matches) -
27 - Kagiso Rabada
32 - Sunil Narine
33 - Lasith Malinga
35 - Imran Tahir
36 - Mitchell McClenaghan
Fastest to 50 IPL wickets (By balls) -
616 - Kagiso Rabada
749 - Lasith Malinga
760 - Sunil Narine
766 - Imran Tahir
797 - Mohit Sharma
Most wickets for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
100 - Amit Mishra
50 - Kagiso Rabada
45 - Morne Morkel
43 - Umesh Yadav
41 - Chris Morris
167 - Number of innings Shikhar Dhawan took to score his maiden IPL hundred - the most by any batsman.
Most innings to score maiden IPL hundred -
167 - Shikhar Dhawan
120 - Virat Kohli
119 - Ambati Rayudu
777 - Runs Shikhar Dhawan has scored against Chennai Super Kings in IPL - the second most any batsman.
Most runs against CSK in IPL -
837 - Virat Kohli
777 - Shikhar Dhawan
717 - Rohit Sharma
543 - Robin Uthappa
491 - Dinesh Karthik
2000 - Faf du Plessis when on 54, completed 2000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL and when Shreyas Iyer was on 21, he completed 2000 runs in IPL.
Most runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL -
4527 - Suresh Raina
3994 - MS Dhoni
2004 - Faf du Plessis
1768 - Michael Hussey
1708 - Murali Vijay
Most runs for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
2174 - Virender Sehwag
2002 - Shreyas Iyer
1912 - Rishabh Pant
1435 - David Warner
1220 - Shikhar Dhawan
