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13-May-2013 09:07:00 GMT
CSK vs DD, IPL 2013, Chennai

Chennai Take on Daredevils at Home

Chennai: Chennai Super Kings would focus on maintain top of table when they take on a lowly Delhi Daredevils in their own den in a Pepsi IPL match on Tuesday.

The Daredevils, already out of contention for a berth in the play-offs, have only pride to play for against the mighty opponents at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.

The Super Kings with 10 victories and four loses from 14 matches have virtually advanced to the play-off stage of the tournament.

Their form took a bit of a tumble when CSK, who have own the title twice before, suffered a five-wicket loss against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday night.

Chasing 142 for a win, the Royals lost three wickets inside five overs before Shane Watson played a blistering knock of 70 off just 34 balls to end the match in dramatic fashion with 17 balls to spare.

Except for a few loses, CSK haven't put a foot wrong. The batting line-up comprising Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the envy of other IPL outfits.

In the bowling department, the team boasts of the likes of Albie Morkel, Mohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Chris Morris and Dwayne Bravo. All of them have done their bit and would be quite a handful for the Delhi batsmen.

On the other hand, the Daredevils, placed second-last in the points table with as many as 10 defeats from 13 games have nothing to lose.

Delhi's top order has failed for inexplicable reasons. Neither Virender Sehwag nor captain Mahela Jayawardene have lived up to their reputations. Australian left-hander David Warner is the only one who has done his bit.

As far as their bowlers Morne Morkel, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav and Shahbaz Nadeem need to come up with splendid performances to pose any challenge to a strong CSK unit.

Teams from:

Chennai Super Kings:
MS Dhoni (captain & wk), Akila Dananjaya, Albie Morkel, Srikkanta Anirutha, Ankit Rajpoot, Baba Aparajith, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ben Laughlin, Chris Morris, Dirk Nannes, Dwayne Bravo, Francois du Plessis, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, Nuwan Kulasekara, R Karthikeyan, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Ronit More, Shadab Jakati, S Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Vijay Shankar and Wridhiman Saha (wk).

Delhi Daredevils: David Warner (captain), Virender Sehwag, Manpreet Juneja, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha (wk), Irfan Pathan, Andre Russell, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Ajit Agarkar, Johan Botha, Unmukt Chand, Morne Morkel, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ben Rohrer, Royston Dias, Muralitharan Gautam, Sidharth Kaul, Yogesh Nagar, Sujeet Nayak, Pavan Negi, Aristh Singhvi, Roelof van der Merwe, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav and Gulam Bodi.

Match facts
Tuesday May 14, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 20:00 local (1430 GMT)


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