Chennai Superkings vs Delhi Daredevils (15th April 2010)

Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 6 wkts

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first but started the innings with the disaster note. Except Badrinath none of the batsman failed to impress and they were able to score 112/9 in 20 overs. Daredevils also lost some quick wickets initially, but Gambhir scored unbeaten 57 to lead his side a much needed victory in 19th over.

Gautam Gambhir was the Man of the Match for his match-winning fifty, Matthew Hayden won the award for the best catch, and Doug Bollinger collected the award for maximum sixes.


Numbers that mattered, Match 50

112 Chennai’s total – their lowest in this edition.

112 Number of balls in the match of which no runs were scored off the bat- highest in this edition. There were 109 dots in the Delhi Daredevils – Kings XI Punjab match on April 11.

51 Balls taken by Gautam Gambhir to reach his fifty – the slowest fifty by a Delhi Daredevils batsman in IPL history (Tillakeratne Dilshan held the previous record with a 46-ball fifty against Deccan at Centurion on 30-04-2009) and the second slowest this season by any batsman (Chennai Super King’s Parthiv Patel had taken 53 balls against Punjab at Chennai on March 21).

19 Number of boundaries hit in the match (18 fours and one six) – Chennai hit 11 (10 + 1), while Delhi Daredevils hit only eight. This is the least number of boundaries hit in a match in this edition. The Delhi Daredevils – Kings XI Punjab match had seen 21 boundaries on April 11.

1 Number of sixes hit in the match – least in this edition. The Delhi Daredevils – Kings XI Punjab match had two sixes on April 11.