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Chennai: Chennai Super Kings clinch thriller by 1 run while Albie Morkel's unbeaten 73 went in vain in match no. 2 at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on Thursday.
Defending a modest 150 against Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings pacer Ashish Nehra took it upon himself to get his side to victory.
Chennai overcame a valiant inning by Albie Morkel to emerge victorious by a solitary run and credit must go to Nehra as he ran ragged at the start of the innings.
The former Indian national team pacer took the new ball and sent 3 Delhi batsmen back to the pavillion in the powerplay. Conceding just 4 runs in his first over, Nehra took two wickets in his second over.
CM Gautam and Mayank Agarwal, who was looking dangerous, were sent packing by the left-armer. In his third over of the opening spell, Nehra got rid of promising Indian youngster, Shreyas Iyer. In the powerplay, his bowling figures were 3-0-17-3.
The 35-year-old wasn’t done though. He was involved in the run out of tailender Amit Mishra in his final over. After bowling a brilliant bouncer, which Mishra missed, Nehra demanded the ball from MS Dhoni after seeing Morkel run towards the striker’s end. Dhoni duly obliged the bowler as he took the bails off the stumps with Mishra stranded in the middle of the pitch.
Nehra finished with 4 overs, 3 wickets having conceded 25 runs against his former team and was awarded the man-of-the-match award.
Earlier, Delhi Daredevils have won the toss and ask Chennai Super Kings to bat.
Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Smith Faf du Plessis and Dwayne Bravo foriegn players for CSK.While JP Duminy, Albie Morkel, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Imran Tahir for DD.
Teams:
Chennai: Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Smith, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (Capt. & wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Ashish Nehra
Delhi: Mayank Agarwal, Chidhambaram Gautam (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Jean-Paul Duminy (Capt.), Yuvraj Singh, Albie Morkel, Kedar Jadhav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Amit Mishra, Domnic Joseph, Imran Tahir
Brief scores
Chennai Super Kings - 150 for 7 (Smith 34, Coulter-Nile 3-30)
Delhi Daredevils - 149 for 9 (Morkel 73*, Nehra 3-25)
Result - Chennai Super Kings won by 1 run
Points - Chennai Super Kings 2, Delhi Daredevils 0
MOM - Aashis Nehra (Chennai Super Kings)
