DC vs CSK IPL 2024 Highlights: MS Dhoni lets fly but Chennai Super Kings lose to Delhi Capitals by 20 runs

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Allright Pant and Gaikwad are in the middle now. They are waiting for the toss to take place. The players have been warming up for a while now. No prizes for guessing which player is getting the biggest cheers. Hint: he is not playing for the “home” side Delhi Capitals.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad has been dismissed twice by left-arm pacers this year. Khaleel Ahmed's efficiency and miserly bowling has been among the few silver linings for DC so far this season. It will be an interesting between these two.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Rishabh Pant has an impressive record against CSK. He has scored 324 runs in ten innings at a strike rate of 156.52. Now he has shown that he is very much back as a wicketkeeper, however he is yet to get a big score with the bat. Moreover, one would remember that there were a lot of concerns with Pant's efficiency in T20 cricket before his accident, despite his aggressive batting being so effective in Tests.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Rachin Ravindra may not have scored a half-century but with the rest of the CSK batting lineup purring along, he is doing exactly what is required of him - getting them off to a flier. Ravindra has scored 83 runs in the two matches at a strike rate of 162.74. However, considering the kind of quality he possesses, one gets the sense that a big score is only around the corner. Could it be today?

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Last season, teams, particularly the ones batting, introduced their impact players after the first innings was done. This year, we are seeing teams actually replacing players who have been dismissed with an Impact Sub. This means that we can technically replace a batter who has been dismissed with an all-rounder who was never in the playing XI. Now that, is opening up a whole pandora's box of whether the fundamentals of cricket can be messed around with or not. Moreover, there is no mention of the Impact Player rule in this season's playing conditions, which makes the entire thing illegal in the first place! Read more about this mess that no one seems to be noticing here.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: David Warner has a good record against Ravindra Jadeja. He is yet to be dismissed by the Indian all-rounder and has a strike rate of 170 against him.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Now DC's batting is a huge problem for them but make no mistake, their bowling hasn't been too effective either. Apart from Axar Patel, whose economy rate is less than six in two games, none of the other bowlers have gone for anything less than 7.50 per over.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: It is hard to imagine anything in Indian cricket today without MS Dhoni but his name wouldn't really have featured too much in the discussions that would have gone on before India's second ODI against Pakistan on April 5, 2005. The country ended up getting a glimpse of the man who would go on to redefine the meaning of success in Indian cricket. Then-India captain Sourav Ganguly promoted a young Dhoni with shoulder-length hair to No.3 ahead of himself in the match and the 23-year-old grabbed that opportunity with both hands and more. Dhoni blasted 148 in just 123 balls, thus leading India to a 58-run win. Now Dhoni and Ganguly return to that venue, both about 20 years older with the former possibly playing the final leg of his illustrious career and the latter in the opposite dugout, having hung up his boots a long, long time ago.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: CSK are golden in this department, no injuries to report. Meanwhile, Ponting said that Ishant Sharma will continue to be on the sidelines while Shai Hopes will take things "nice and easy" on the eve of the game. Jhye Richardson is available.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: DC have been content so far to open with the two Australian superstars in their team which has led to Prithvi Shaw not finding a place in the squad. However, head coach Ricky Ponting said that Shaw has been pushing hard to be included in the squad

CSK lead the head to head 19-10. Since 2020, the head to head stands at 4-4 but CSK have won the last four matches played between these two sides.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: One of the biggest problems for DC has been their top heavy batting order. If DC bring in Prithvi Shaw, they can push Mitch Marsh as one down, which could lend a bit more solidity to the top-order but the real challenge will be facing the pace-off deliveries bowled by Mustafizur, who cleverly mixes his variety of cutters to make life miserable for the batters.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: DC's bowling consultant Eric Simons said that the pitch had a lot of grass rolled in and felt it would be a "good cricket wicket" which could have some bounce going by what he saw on the side pitches on the square. That said, there's always some swing available in the humid Vizag air and new-ball bowlers should be able to get some help. Across 8 IPL games at this venue, 61 wickets have fallen to pace and 36 to spin.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: The two sides have faced each other here once. That was in May 2019 in the second qualifier. DC were restricted to a score of 151/4 and then half-centuries from openers Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson helped CSK chase it down with six wickets and an over remaining.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: It is Sunday and so it is double-header day. The first match is between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Ahmedabad. SRH have won the toss and chosen to bat. Will it be another sixathon from them?

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: You might have noticed that this game is being played at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam, which played host to the pulsating second Test between India and England last month. You might have also noticed that the team listed as the home team is called the “Delhi” Capitals, and there is no mention of Visakhapatnam or any other regional markers in the side's name. Well DC are playing their first two home games in Vizag this season and then the rest at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. This is because the pitches in Delhi are being remade after the WPL games it hosted.

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Mitchell Santner, Maheesh Theekshana, Moeen Ali, Devon Conway, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prashant Solanki, Mukesh Choudhary, Simarjeet Singh, RS Hangargekar, Aravelly Avanish

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Ricky Bhui, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Abishek Porel, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Praveen Dubey, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar Salam, Ishant Sharma, Jhye Richardson, Shai Hope, Prithvi Shaw, Lalit Yadav, Yash Dhull, Vicky Ostwal, Swastik Chikara

DC vs CSK IPL Live Score 2024, Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings: Greetings everyone! As the IPL 2024 completes its first week, Visakhapatnam, Delhi Capitals' home ground for the first few games, hosts its first game of the season, where the winless Capitals take on the unbeaten Chennai Super Kings in the second of Sunday's double-header.