Saturday, May 12, 2012

Chennai Super Kings clashing with Delhi Daredevils at Chennai

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Chennai Super Kings clashing with Delhi Daredevils at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. With Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders comfortably placed at the top of the points table, there's a crowd in the middle vying for the two other knockout places. Chennai last win over Kolkata getting fourth in the point table.

Chennai Super Kings : Must win game for super kings. Super Kings made heavy weather of a relatively simple chase against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday, only to be rescued by Albie Morkel and S Anirudha team get win. There batting order not in form. Suresh Raina MS Dhoni, who has changed the batting order frequently, has himself been a slow scorer.

Team will be boosting with the perfomance of morkel & anirudha in the last game. dhoni & raina come up on the order and not getting runs frequently. They give some time to Jadeja and Morkel to spend on the pitch. Albie Morkel hasn't had many chances with the bat but has twice turned a match on its head. He did it first against Royal Challengers and then against Royals. In the previous match between these two sides this season, in Delhi, Super Kings imploded to 110 - their lowest total of 2012.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay


Delhi Daredevils : Devils are top on the table. Their strong batting line-up destroy every teams bowling attack. In the previous match between these two sides this season, in Delhi, Super Kings imploded to 110 - their lowest total of 2012. Super kings have to boost in this match against strong delhi side.

David Warner announced his arrival this season with his second IPL century,109 off 54 balls. With Sehwag also in good form, Warner scored 82 runs in boundaries in his innings against Deccan Chargers, which is the highest this season. Naman Ojha made a mockery of a seemingly tall target in Hyderabad. Ojha's class allayed doubts about the quality of Daredevils' Indian batting. Virender Sehwag has had two low scores after five consecutive fifties and he would aim to close the gap with Chris Gayle in the race for the orange cap.

Delhi Daredevils squad : V Sehwag(C), MC Juneja, VR Aaron, AB Agarkar, P Bisht, R Bist, GH Bodi, DAJ Bracewell, U Chand, AJ Finch, DPMD Jayawardene, GJ Maxwell, M Morkel, S Nadeem, Y Nagar, PT Naik, P Negi, NV Ojha†, IK Pathan, KP Pietersen, KC Raval, AD Russell, AM Salvi, LRPL Taylor, RE van der Merwe, Y Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, DA Warner, TP Yadav, UT Yadav, Zafir Patel

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