Another SIXER! FIFTY for Raina
Raina brings up a fine fifty with a six in comeback knock!
SIX off a beamer!
Rayudu hoists the waist high full toss over square leg!
Marcus Stoinis is in to bowl his first over
End of Over 12: CSK (98-3)
Suresh Raina* 43 (29) Ambati Rayudu* 11 (8)
Amit Mishra 3-0-27-0 Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-47-1
Raina sizing it UP!
Two massive sixes on Amit Mishra's bowling
End of Over 11: CSK (81-3)
SIX! Rayudu SLOG-SWEEPS Ashwin over square leg
CSK dealing in sixes here
End of Over 10: CSK (71-3)
End of Over 9: CSK (66-3)
Now Raina puts one over the rope for SIX!
Ambati Rayudu is the new man in!
WICKET! Ashwin has the last word
Moeen mistimes the ball as he goes for third consecutive six. Caught by Shikhar Dhawan just outside the 30-yard circle
Moeen Ali c Dhawan b Ashwin 36 (24b 4x4 2x6) SR: 150
TWO MASSIVE STRAIGHT SIXES!
Moeen Ali launches Ashwin for two straight sixes
End of Over 8: CSK (48-2)
Amit Mishra comes to bowl in his 100th match for Delhi Franchise
End of Over 7: CSK (43-2)
Suresh Raina 15* (15) Moeen Ali* 20 (16)
Ravichandran Ashwin 2-0-19-0 Tom Curran1-0-3-0
Moeen Ali has R Ashwin under the pump
TWO consecutive boundaries
End of powerplay: CSK (33-2 in 6 overs)
End of over 5: (30-2)
10 runs in R Ashwin's over
End of Over 4: (20-2)
End of over 3: CSK (11-2)
Suresh Raina 4* (5) Moeen Ali* 0 (2)
Chris Woakes 2-0-8-1 Avesh Khan 1-0-2-1
WICKET!: CSK (7-2 in 2.1 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad (5 runs off 8 balls) c Dhawan b Woakes
Score after Over 2: CSK (7-1)
WICKET!: CSK (6-1 in 1.4 overs)
Avesh Khan to du Plessis, OUT LBW! a duck in CSK's season-opener.
Score after Over 1: CSK (5-0)
The game begins at 7.30 pm!
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis at the crease, Chris Woakes to open the bowling for Delhi Capitals
Toss
Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field first!
Chennai Super Kings Playing XI
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Moeen Ali, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (c)†, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar
Delhi Capitals Playing XI
Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant † (c), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, Tom Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan
Chennai Super Kings Squad
MS Dhoni (captain/wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Narayan Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Santner, Dwayne Bravo, Lungi Ngidi, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Imran Tahir, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, K Gowtham, Cheteshwar Pujara, M.Harisankar Reddy, K.Bhagath Varma, C Hari Nishaanth, R Sai Kishore
Delhi Capitals Squad
Rishabh Pant (captain/wicketkeeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith, Sam Billings, Shimron Hetmyer, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Umesh Yadav, Tom Curran, Avesh Khan, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Ripal Patel, Lukman Hussain Meriwala, M Siddharth, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Woakes, Vishnu Vinod (wicketkeeper), Aditya Tare (wicketkeeper)
Preview
As if batting and wicket-keeping comparisons weren’t enough, Rishabh Pant squares off against veteran MS Dhoni in first match as a captain of his IPL career.
Delhi Capitals (DC) lock horns with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Match 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai without some of their key players. While Shreyas Iyer is nursing a shoulder injury after a fatal dive during India-England series, South African pace duo of Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada are serving their mandatory seven-day quarantine period after arriving from home series versus Pakistan.
On the other hand, The CSK batting will rely a lot on Faf du Plessis but the return of Suresh Raina, who missed the last season, will be a boost for the three-time champions as they look to do better this time than the seventh place finish they got last season.