Chennai Super Kings thrashed Delhi Capitals in the 55th match of IPL 2023 to move closer to qualification of the Playoffs. In the match played at CSK's homeground, MA Chidambaram stadium, MS Dhoni-led team won by 27 runs on Wednesday. After winning the toss and coming to bat first, CSK batters scored 167/8 in 20 overs. In response, DC batters managed to score just 140 runs.
CSK have now got 15 points and are currently at the second position om the points table with two matches to go. If CSK win even one of their upcoming matches, they will qualify for the Playoffs as they will get 17 points. They gave their next matches against Kolkata Knight Riders and DC on May 14 and May 20, respectively.
On the other hand, DC have failed to jump from the last position and have 8 points in 11 matches played with NRR of -0.605. It has become difficult for them to make it to the playoffs as even if they win the remaining games, they will still reach 14 points.
Delhi's batting was underwhelming in the match. They had a bad start and their captain David Warner, who came to open, returned without scoring any runs. After this, Mitchell Marsh was also able to score only 5 runs. Delhi's batting line-up collapsed as Phil Salt (17) and Manish Pandey (27), Riley Russouw (35), Ripal Patel (10) and Axar Patel (21) also could not score much. Pathirana took 3 wickets for CSK.
Batting first in this match, CSK had a slow start as Devon Conway, who came to open scored 10 runs before getting dismissed. On the other hand, his partner Ruturaj Gaikwad played an innings of 24 runs. Apart from this, Ajinkya Rahane scored 21, Mooen Ali scored 7 and Shivam Dube scored 25 runs. However, in the end, Ravindra Jadeja scored 21 runs and Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 20 runs in 9 balls to guide their team to an above-par total.
