Delhi Capitals (DC) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are currently plying their trade in the 67th game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. It has so far been the festival of runs in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.
Chennai Super Kings have won the toss and opted to bat first. It was absolute carnage by the visitors as they exhibited staggering batting shows and made DC bowlers toil hard on a hot day in Delhi. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway (87) smashed 141 runs for the opening partnership.
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One of the main reasons behind that staggering start was Ruturaj Gaikwad. The young batter played some magnificent strokes all across the ground and made many stand and applaud him. He continued his golden touch and played another staggering knock.
One of the main highlights of his innings was when he took Kuldeep Yadav to the cleaners in the 12th over. Ruturaj Gaikwad hit the first six on the second ball over the long-off area before hitting another maximum over long-on on 4th delivery. If this was not enough, he then went down to the ground and smashed the third six.
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Ruturaj Gaikwad ended with the knock of 79 runs in 50 balls. He batted with a strike rate of 158 and smashed 3 fours and 7 sixes in his innings.
DC vs CSK: Chennai Super Kings posts a mammoth total of 223 runs
After the staggering opening partnership by Ruturaj Gaikwad (79) and Devon Conway (87), Shivam Dube struck some lusty blows and played a cameo of 22 runs in 9 balls. Before Ravindra Jadeja blasted 20 runs in 7 balls to take CSK to a total of 223 runs. For DC, Chetan Sakariya was the pick of the bowlers as he returned with the figures of 1/36.
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