Delhi Capitals registered their first win in the IPL 2024 season. Delhi, captained by Rishabh Pant, opened its account by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 20 runs. In this match played in Visakhapatnam, Delhi batted first and with the help of captain Rishabh Pant’s strong half-century, scored a strong score of 191 runs. After this, Delhi wrote the story of Chennai’s defeat due to the lethal bowling of Khalil Ahmed and Mukesh Kumar. Even MS Dhoni’s explosive innings of 37 runs in just 16 balls, which came out to bat for the first time this season, could not help the team win. This is Chennai’s first defeat this season.
Delhi Capitals, who are currently playing in Visakhapatnam instead of their home-ground Arun Jaitley Stadium, batted first here and David Warner got off to a fast start. At the same time, Prithvi Shaw, who was playing for the first time in this season, supported him well. Both had added 62 runs in the powerplay. Soon he completed his half-century in 32 balls. Then both the batsmen were out in the 10th and 11th overs.
From here the pace of runs slowed down and then in the 15th over, Matisha Patirana bowled Mitchell Marsh and Tristan Stubbs with stormy yorkers in 3 consecutive balls. In such a situation, it seemed difficult for Delhi to reach a big score but captain Rishabh Pant finally showed his magic and scored a half-century in just 31 balls. On this basis, Delhi scored 191 runs after losing 5 wickets.
Chennai Super Kings, which won both the opening matches of the season at home, was playing on another ground for the first time. He did not have a good start outside the house. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was dismissed by Khaleel Ahmed in the first over itself and then in the third over, Khaleel also eliminated Rachin Ravindra. Chennai had scored only 9 runs in 3 overs and 2 wickets had fallen.
