
1/7
The smiles are back and the whistle podu is finally loud and clear at the Chepauk. It's still not known whether Chennai will be in the playoffs in a week's time, but they have finally made a statement of intent, that too against the hottest team in the competition.
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2/7
Their emphatic nine-wicket win over Delhi on Saturday night has taken Dhoni's boys to 15 points and they are still in a sudden-death situation as they approach the last two games in Kolkata and Mohali over the next one week.
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3/7
Delhi, of course, have all but sealed one of the top-two slots, and they lacked the intensity that is so crucial in this format. With the wicket not exactly conducive for stand-and-deliver strokeplay, it needed one among the top-four to stick around for a while.
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4/7
But the likes of Virender Sehwag (4), David Warner (8) and Mahela Jaywardene (8) couldn't quite do that and the Chennai spearhead Ben Hilfenhaus (3-27) deserves all the credit for restricting Delhi to a paltry 114-5. The Aussie paceman removed Sehwag with a beautiful outswinger that knocked the skipper's off stump in the very first over.
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5/7
Warner was again looking in ominous touch, but he wasn't too keen to allow the initial Hilfenhaus storm to blow over. With the ball stopping just a bit after pitching, Warner went for an expansive-drive and gave a simple catch to mid-off. Hilfenhaus was again in the thick of action when he got the glove of the in-form Naman Ojha and Dhoni, diving to his left, completed the catch after a bit of fumble.
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