IPL 7 Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings Report

24th match of IPL season 7 has been played between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings at Feroz shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi. Chennai with extre ordinery performances of top order batsmen won the match by huge margins of 8 wickets. DR Smith played super fast inning of 79 runs, he declared man of the match.

Earlier, Chennai won the toss and decided to field first. Delhi puting into bat first, started aggrassively with Q de Kock and M Vijay initially. But DD lost Q de Kock (24) and skipper Kevin Pietersen (0) in quick successions. KD KArthik joined with M Vijay and played superb inning of 51 runs of just 36 balls. In later overs JP Duminy (28 of 17 balls) and KM Jadhav (29 of 18 balls) played quick innings and put Delhi on totals of 178 runs.

Following huge target of 179 runs, Chennai also srarted aggrassively with DR Smith and BB McCullum. Both played many lofty shots and go after Delhi bowlers as well. McCullum got out scoring 32 runs, But Smith stood in middle and continued with his best form in IPL season 7. SK Raina joined with him and kept the momentom on. DR Smith played superb inning of 79 runs of just 51 balls with 8 huge sixes and 4 fantastics fours. Rest was done by Raina and skipper Dhoni and Chennai won the match by huge margins of 8 wickets in 19.4 overs.

Thus, Chennai remained on top of points tally od IPL season 7 with earning 2 more points and Delhi got 0 points. DR Smith declared man of the match for his brave inning of 79 runs.