Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Delhi Capitals (DC) are facing each other in the seventh match of the IPL 2020 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium (Dubai).
It is the third game for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL 2020. In the IPL 2020 opening game, CSK faced the defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) at Abu Dhabi, where CSK beat Mumbai Indians by five wickets with four balls remaining.
However, in their next game against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Sharjah, CSK suffered a 16-run defeat in the high-scoring contest.
On the other hand, Delhi Capitals have begun their journey in the IPL 2020 with a Super Over victory. The Delhi franchise started their journey in the ongoing IPL season on last Sunday (20th September) during the second match of the tournament where they faced Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at Dubai. While the main game had the tied result, Delhi Capitals beat KXIP in the one-over eliminator.
Delhi Capitals are now playing their second match in the IPL 2020.
In all their last three meetings, Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals. Delhi Capitals won their last match against CSK on 18th May 2018 at Delhi, where the hosts won by 34 runs.
IPL 2020, Match 7: Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals (CSK vs DC) – Toss Report
Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to field first. CSK have made one change as Josh Hazlewood replaced Lungi Ngidi.
Dhoni said after winning the toss, “We’ll bowl first. I think we need to respect the conditions and the fact that dew will play a part. Maybe the teams batting second so far in the tournament have made mistakes to not win. It looks better to bat second on TV. Some of the wickets might slow down as the tournament progresses. When you have 14 games before the play-offs you can’t win all games. We need to control the controllables better, and one of them were the no balls. We also did well to get to 200 in the last game. One change – Ngidi misses out and Hazlewood comes in.”
After losing the toss, Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer confirmed that they made two changes in the playing XI – Amit Mishra and Avesh Khan replaced Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohit Sharma respectively.
Iyer said, “We needed that win in the first game of the season. The boys are really motivated and we are in a great mindset. I would have chosen to field as well because in the last match dew played a great part. Ashwin, I feel is doing pretty well, but we wanted to give him a 2-3 game rest so that he feels better. He’s doing well in the gym. We have two changes – Amit Mishra in for Ashwin and Avesh Khan for Mohit Sharma.”
IPL 2020, Match 7: Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals (CSK vs DC) – Playing XIs
Chennai Super Kings (CSK): Murali Vijay, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Sam Curran, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (C/wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Josh Hazlewood, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla
Delhi Capitals (DC): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Shreyas Iyer (C), Rishabh Pant (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Anrich Nortje, Avesh Khan