DC vs CSK / Chennai became the second team of the season to reach the playoffs – beat Delhi by 77 runs

DC vs CSK: Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings have entered the playoffs of the current season of the Indian Premier League. CSK has become the second team to qualify for the playoffs. The team defeated Delhi Capitals by 77 runs at their home ground. After this win, Chennai has earned 17 points from the league stage, while Delhi, captained by David Warner, has managed to score only 10 points.

This is Chennai's fourth consecutive win over Delhi.

Batting first after winning the toss, Chennai scored 223 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs at Arun Jaitley ground. In response, Delhi batsmen could only manage 146 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs.

This is how Delhi's wickets fell

First: On the third ball of the second over, Tushar Deshpande got Prithvi Shaw caught by Rayudu Russo.

Second: On the fourth ball of the 5th over, Deepak Chahar got Phil Salt caught by Rahane.

Third: Riley Russo was bowled by Deepak Chahar on the fifth ball of the 5th over.

Fourth: On the 5th ball of the 11th over, Ravindra Jadeja got Yash Dhul caught by Tushar Deshpande.

Fifth: On the third ball of the 14th over, Deepak Chahar got Akshar Patel caught by Rituraj Gaikwad.

Sixth: On the first ball of the 17th over, Pathirana got Aman Khan caught by Moin Ali.

Warner scored the sixth fifty of the season

Delhi captain David Warner has scored the sixth fifty of the season. This is the 61st Fifty of Warner's IPL career. Warner is the batsman with the most half-centuries in the league.

Delhi's bad start

Chasing the target of 224 runs, Delhi got off to a bad start. The team lost three wickets in scoring 34 runs in 6 overs. Prithvi Shaw 5, Phil Salt 3 and Riley Russo were dismissed for 0 runs.

Conway-Gaikwad's Fifty made Chennai 223 runs

Batting first after winning the toss, the team scored 223 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs. The team has scored more than 200 for the 28th time, the most in the league.

Opener Deven Conway scored 87 and Rituraj Gaikwad played useful innings of 79 runs. Shivam Dubey, who came to play after these two, scored 22 runs in 9 balls. Jadeja contributed 20 runs on 7 balls.

This is how the wickets of Chennai fell.

First: Third ball of the 15th over, Chetan Sakaria bowled a slow ball on the off stump. Gaikwad is caught at deep square leg. He scored 79 runs.

Second: On the last ball of the 18th over, Khaleel Ahmed got Shivam Dubey caught by Lalit Yadav.

Third: On the second ball of the 19th over, Chetan Sakaria got Deven Conway caught by Riley Russo.

Conway-Dubey's Fifty Partnership

Deven Conway shared a half-century partnership with Shivam Dubey after Rituraj Gaikwad was dismissed for 141. This partnership was broken by Khaleel Ahmed by dismissing Dubey.

Fifty on Conway's 33 balls

Deven Conway scored the sixth fifty of the season. He has completed his half-century in 33 balls. This is the 9th half century of his career.

Conway scored 1000th six of the season

Deven Conway hit the 1000th six of the current season. For the second consecutive season, more than one thousand sixes have been taken. Last season there were 1062 sixes.

Gaikwad-Conway's century partnership

The opening pair of Rituraj Gaikwad and Deven Conway got Chennai off to a great start. There was a century opening partnership between the two. The pair has shared a fourth century partnership in the season.

Gaikwad scored Fifty on 37 balls

Rituraj Gaikwad scored the third fifty of the season. He has completed his half-century in 37 balls. This is the 13th half century of his career.

Chennai scored 52 runs in Powerplay

Chennai has got off to a great start. The opening pair of Deven Conway and Rituraj Gaikwad added 52 runs in 6 overs.

See the playing-11 of both the teams...

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper and captain), Rituraj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande and Mahish Teekshana.

Impact Players: Mathisha Pathirana, Mitchell Santner, Subranshu Sampati, Sheikh Rashid, Akash Singh.

Delhi Capitals: David Warner (Captain), Philip Salt (Wicketkeeper), Riley Russo, Yash Dhull, Aman Khan, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Chetan Sakaria, Anrich Nortje and Khaleel Ahmed.

Impact Players: Prithvi Shaw, Mukesh Kumar, Abhishek Porel, Ripple Patel and Praveen Dubey.