IPL 26th Match: Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils

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Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils at Johannesburg

Delhi: (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Mithun Manhas, 7 Daniel Vettori, 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Dirk Nannes, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Chennai: (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 Albie Morkel, 6 Jacob Oram, 7 S Badrinath, 8 Shadab Jakati/Joginder Sharma/Manpreet Gony, 9 L Balaji, 10 Sudeep Tyagi, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

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[naresh091]

Hopefully we'll take revenge for the defeat in the first game.Atleast this time Im expecting them to drop Parthiv and bring in Vijay.The team needs no more changes other than that imo.
If we win this one,we'll be no.4 in the tables.

naresh091 added 30 Minutes and 4 Seconds later...

Oh the weather forecast reads,

Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers. High 66F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.

If rain intervenes,that would be a crucial blow for our dreams of reaching the semis.

 

[rockyrakster]

Delhi will be without sehwag so we have a brighter chance and we can always beat them.Advantage CSK. Let's roar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[naresh091]

Ahh finally we got the welcome change we were expecting.Vijay comes in place of Parthiv Patel.Hope Hayden and Vijay give a nice start for us.

 

[Leggie]

This one will be tight. Chennai and Raina are in great touch after the last game but then again Delhi also look dangerous with Warner opening the batting.

 

[LongLegs?]

Warner gets a game - hopefully, he shows some temperament along with that talent he's got. Leaving out Vettori is interesting, but Mishra's there as the spinner in any case.

Super Kings play Vijay, bleh, I was kinda hoping they wouldn't, because imo, he's one of the best all-round batsmen in the Indian domestic scene currently. Plays great in all formats.

 

[Cricketman]

Can't wait for Hayden to tonk Nehra around here. Did it alot in the past, cmon Haydos!

Cricketman added 6 Minutes and 16 Seconds later...

Here we go, Nehra's first ball to Hayden and it's a six over extra cover!

Cricketman added 2 Minutes and 3 Seconds later...

Shoot, Vijay goes :\

 

[King Pietersen]

Yay, Submarine finally getting a bat higher than #7! Going along really nicely Badri and Raina!

 

[Leggie]

Badri is looking dangerous. That hook shot was as clean as whistle. Middled completely.

 

[Arunava]

many badri fanboys will be happy today

 

[Cricketman]

God, he was looking SO good. Stupid shot.

That's what he's capable of. He can do anything. Buzz off, Yuvraj Singh.

Big blow in losing Albie too. We should still be aiming for 180, we need a big over here somewhere.

 

[Leggie]

In T20's: Yuvi >>> Badri :banana2

Chennai falling apart :banana2

 

[Cricketman]

Dhoni tweaking sucks. Give me Karthik.

 

[Leggie]

Dhoni >>> Karthik :banana2

 

[aussie_ben91]

Badrinath wasn't even impressive. =/

He only just middled a bouncer bowled at 128kph and wasn't incontrol of the stroke. Even I can pull a short-pitched delievery at 120kph and I've seen club batsman pull 130kph bouncers. If the ball was 5-10kph faster then Badrinath would've been in real strife.

The Aussie commentators were slagging off the CSK's for sending Badrinath up the order because they think his rubbish and a useless blocker in Twenty20.