Sehwag, the other danger man also fell in the next over for 6. The nice opportunity to captalize was missed by Dhoni's men. De Villiers and Dilshan did not protect their wicket, instead they started attacking. They added 68 for the third wicket in just 6.3 overs. Morkel conceeded 4 fours--1 by deVilliers and 3 by Dilshan. In the next over by Flintoff, Dilshan hit a four and a six. They scored 32 runs in the 4th and 5th over.
Dilshan scored his fifty before getting caught of a full toss. He reached his 50 in just 24 balls which included 7 fours and 2 sixes. At the end of 10 overs, DD were 96 for 3 with DeVilliers on 25 and Dinesh Karthik on 14. They added 38 in 5.3 overs.
DeVilliers took it from there and reached his 50 in 35 balls and went on to score an unbeaten 105. The 50 to 100 took him just 16 balls. He was lucky to be dropped by his country mate A Morkel at long on off Gony. It was a sitter when he was at 50. His 105 had 5 fours and 6 sixes in 54 balls. This is where CSK lost their match. If that catch was not dropped, they would have won this game. Similarly, in MI match, Hayden dropped a sitter.
In the 74-run partnership between DeVilliers and Tiwari, DeVilliers scored 65 runs. He helped DD reach the highest score in season 2 by any team.
Balaji was the pick of the bowler for CSK, picking 3 for 19 in his 4 overs.
Chasing 190 requires a good start and aptly it was provided by Hayden and Parthiv Patel. They were going at the rate of 10 runs per over and put 57 for the first wicket in 5.2 overs. Hayden did not stop his attacking attitude. He scored another 50 in just 22 balls--fastest fifty by him.
At the end of 10 overs, CSK were 106 for 2 requiring another 84 in 10 overs with 8 wickets in hand. What happened after that? Big surprise!
Vettori turned the match once again for DD. He picked Dhoni 3rd ball after the strategic break. Raina and Flintoff kept the momentum with 51 requiring of 6 overs.
Sangwan, the best of hte pick for DD picked crucial wickets at important times. He picked Raina off a full toss, caught at long-on by DeVilliers.
It was not Morkel's day as he dropped catches and gave away 41 runs in his 4 overs. The man who demolished the Australian attack in the OIDI and T20 series, could not repeat it today for CSK. Believe me, he scored 13 off 14 balls which had only one boundary. This is the usual Morkel.
Last 4 overs required 34. Badrinath and Morkel could not do much except to score singles. Last 3 overs requied 29, and the last 2 requiring 24! Badri got out Vettori in the 3rd ball of 19th. Gony hit a six in the 5th and was run out on the last ball.
Last over required 15 runs, but Joginder Sharma was on strike. What a strategy? Experienced player Morkel in crease and he could not control the innings! Joginder scored two each of the first two balls, not giving strike to main player Morkel.
Third ball was run out on the third ball, fourth ball was another run out. Balaji ran even before the ball bowled, but Morkel hits straight to covers where Sangwan passes the ball to Nannes and he removed the bails. Fifth ball was a single leaving CSK requiring 10 runs of 1 ball and no run was scored, giving DD a 9-run victory.
The match in hand was lost by CSK, but Dhoni mentioned as if they're never close. In the last 10 overs, CSK required just 84 runs with 8 wickets in hand, most of the teams would reach this target in any form of the game. This day doesn't seem to be CSK's day.
Dhoni was not aggressive in the field, once again. Watching the match through TV, it looked like he never gave any input or encourgament to the fielders to be aggressive. Three runs were picked where it should have been two, Two were scored it if actually was a single. The way, Dhoni collects the ball never shows that he is a professional keeper. He seems to be so lethargic and does not looks like a cool captain. You can be aggressive, attentive, but not arrogant.
Scoreboard:
Match # 9
Date: Thursday April 23, 2009
Teams: Delhi Daredevils v. Chennai Super Kings
Captains: Virendra Sehwag and Dhoni
Toss: DD, elected to bat
Venue: Kingsmead, Durban
Result: DD won by 9 runs
Points: DD 2; CSK 0
Man of the Match: AB de Villiers of DD
Delhi Daredevils Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Gambhir | c Dhoni b Balaji | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sehwag | c A Morkel b Gony | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| AB de Villiers | Not Out | 105 | 54 | 5 | 6 |
| Dilshan | c Raina b A Morkel | 50 | 27 | 7 | 2 |
| D Karthik | c Flintoff b Balaji | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| Tiwari | c Flintoff b Balaji | 9 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Vettori | Not Out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (w 1) | 1 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 5 wkts in 20 overs | 189 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-0 (Gambhir, 0.1 ov), 2-8 (Sehwag, 1.6 ov), 3-76 (Dilshan, 8.3 ov), 4-114 (Karthik, 13.6 ov), 5-188 (Tiwary, 19.5 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Balaji | 4 | 0 | 19 | 3 |
| Gony | 4 | 0 | 45 | 1 |
| A Morkel | 4 | 0 | 41 | 1 |
| Flintoff | 4 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| J Sharma | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Muralitharan | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
Chennai Super Kings Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Patel | c DeVilliers b Sangwan | 16 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| Hayden | c Nannes b Sangwan | 57 | 27 | 5 | 3 |
| Raina | c DeVilliers b Sangwan | 41 | 27 | 5 | 1 |
| Dhoni | c D Karthik b Vettori | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Flintoff | c (sub) Warner b Nehra | 16 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
| A Morkel | Not Out | 13 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Badrinath | c (sub) Warner b Vettori | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Gony | Run Out (Sehwag/Vettori) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| J Sharma | Run Out (sub Warner) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Balaji | Run Out (Sangwan/Nannes) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muralitharan | Not Out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 8, nb 1) | 15 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 9 wkts in 20 overs | 180 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-57 (Patel, 5.2 ov), 2-90 (Hayden, 7.6 ov), 3-108 (Dhoni, 10.3 ov), 4-139 (Raina, 14.1 ov), 5-156 (Flintoff, 15.6 ov), 6-168 (Badrinath, 18.3 ov), 7-175 (Gony, 18.6 ov), 8-179 (Joginder Sharma, 19.3 ov), 9-179 (Balaji, 19.4 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Nannes | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| Nehra | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
| Salvi | 3 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| Sangwan | 4 | 0 | 28 | 3 |
| Vettori | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| Tiwari | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
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