Cricket News: Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals in their own backyard

Defending Champions Chennai Super Kings continued their winning run in the Indian Premier League season 12 as they beat the Delhi Capitals in their own backyard at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium to comfortably win by 6 wickets. It was a complete team performance by Chennai as all the top order batsman contributed with the bat with Shane Watson top-scoring while skipper Dhoni also made a vital contribution low down in the batting order. For Delhi though it was a disappointing night as their batsman could not put up a big score on the board. Let’s have a look now at the match summary. It was the Delhi Capitals who won the toss and opted to bat first. Opener Shikhar Dhawan struck a half-century top scoring with 51 while Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw contributed with 25 and 24 runs. The Delhi Capitals ended up with 147 runs on the board in their 20 overs with CSK’s Dwayne Bravo being the main wrecker in chief taking 3-33. Meanwhile, Chennai chased down the target comfortably for the loss of just 4 wickets with Shane Watson top scoring with 44 and MS Dhoni making 32 not out. Amit Mishra picked up 2-35 for the capitals while Ishant Sharma and Kagiso Rabada took one each.