IPL T20 Cricket

Delhi Daredevils will take on unstable Chennai Super Kings at Kotla Cricket ground in Delhi. Delhi is looking strong in all departments and will try to erase their shocking loss against Mumbai Indians. Chennai is looking completely out of sorts with their main bowlers Makhaya Ntini and Muralidharan failed to take wickets. Chennai’s captain MS Dhoni need to play exceptional innings to upset Delhi. Will it happen? Chennai Super kings lost 3 successive matches after the exit of mighty Australians. They are still trying to find out ideal batting lineup especially openers. It is foolish to except much from Parthiv Patel Co against the likes of McGrath and Asif.

Match timing: From 4 pm onwards live on Set Max channel.

Crucial player: Delhi captain Virender Sehwag scored 247 runs at an average of 49.4 and strike rate of 199. Do you want more from him? Sehwag is a serious contender for Man of the Tournament.

IPL Statistics:

1. Delhi Dare devils defeated Chennai IPL by 8 wickets in the previous match.
2. Sehwag and Gambhir is in second and third positions in the leading run scorers list.

Key players: 1. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina: Others are just making up numbers except Morkel.
2. Delhi top order: Most dangerous Sehwag and Gambhir and stable Shikhar Dhawan.
3. Glenn McGrath – Mohammad Asif: Weak Chennai top order has no chance against them.
4. Albie Morkel: Real all-rounder for Chennai.

Delhi strategy:

Glenn McGrath and Mohammad Asif will try to exploit weak Chennai top order and increase pressure on strong middle order. Delhi knew that Chennai hopes rest on Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni. For Delhi, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are playing exceptionally well while Shikhar Dhawan and Rajat Bhatia already played sensible knocks. It is interesting to see how their young bowlers (Yo Mahesh and Pradeep Sangwan) will bowl to Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni. Delhi should not underestimate big hitting Morkel who played well in the last 2 matches.

Chennai strategy:

If they can remove Delhi top order quickly, they have no quality batsmen in the middle and late order to chase big totals as it happened against Mumbai Indians and Kings eleven Punjab. Muralidharan will expose the inexperienced Delhi batsmen in middle overs. Chennai need to keep wickets against McGrath and Asif in order to allow its stroke players to play their shots against other bowlers.

Verdict: Delhi is hot favourite to win this match. But miracles are common in T2O cricket. But, It is too much to except such miralces from Dhoni & Co.