IPL 2019: Qualifier 2 – CSK vs DC – Funniest Memes from the Match The stage is now set for another thriller between Mumbai and Chennai at the Wankhede on Super Sunday. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is one of the teams, that know the tricks to trump in crunch games. The same was on display in the Qualifier 2 in Visakhapatnam. MS Dhoni-led CSK defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by six wickets and progressed to the final of the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL). They will now face the Mumbai Indians (MI) on Sunday in a bid to become the most successful team in the IPL. Capitals huff and puff to 147 The Capitals after losing the toss had to strain and could only score 147 in their 20 overs. Both Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan perished inside the mandatory powerplay. Even as Deepak Chahar trapped Shaw in front, Harbhajan accounted for Dhawan’s wicket. Colin Munro scored a handy 27 off 24 balls, but he hit one straight into the hands of Dwayne Bravo in the deep. He fell prey to Ravindra Jadeja. Shreyas Iyer couldn’t get going after an 18-ball 13 while Rishabh Pant got 38 runs off 25 deliveries. The southpaw rotated the strike and also smacked two fours and a six. The Capitals kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Jadeja was entrusted to bowl the final over and that turned out to be costly for CSK as 16 runs were scored courtesy of some big hits from Ishant Sharma and Trent Boult. Faf and Watto crush the Capitals Delhi Capitals’ bowlers started well and didn’t give many freebies to the Super Kings’ batsmen. Shane Watson couldn’t quite find his timing but didn’t throw his wicket away. At the other end, Faf du Plessis got set and churned out some awe-inspiring strokes to inject momentum into the innings. The duo scored 42 runs in the powerplay and then accomplished their half-century stand off 43 deliveries. Watson skied one off Amit Mishra, but luck favoured him and the ball fell safely. Du Plessis got his fifty in 37 balls after which Trent Boult gave DC their first breakthrough, dismissing du Plessis in the 11th over. Meanwhile, Watto found his touch, gradually and reached his fifty with an over-boundary off 31 balls. In the next over, Mishra dismissed him. The onus was then on Suresh Raina and Ambati Rayudu to guide CSK home, but the former got out to Axar Patel. Raina managed 11 off 13 balls. Thereafter, Rayudu remained not out on a run-a-ball 20 and took his team home with one over to spare. Here are the funniest memes from the Qualifier as CSK go through to another final: Csk fielders wen Imran Tahir gets a wicket #CSKvsDC pic.twitter.com/BRnTtiT20q — Wenga Boy (@dee15O4) May 10, 2019 DHONI to his teammates after JADEJA conceding four and SIX from ISHANT SHARMA….#CSKvDC pic.twitter.com/8QSLfxpaEd — कबीरा (@ankit_rr) May 10, 2019<doc-sep>IPL 2019 Qualifier 2. CSK Vs DC: Ishant Sharma Hits Old Foe Ravindra Jadeja For Four And Six To End Delhi Innings On A High – WATCH Remember what happened on the fourth day of the second Test between Australia and India at Perth in 2018? Well, tension had flared up between two Indians cricketers, Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja. That animosity was almost played out again on Friday at Visakhapatnam during the second Qualifier of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Delhi Capitals (DC). Delhi, put into bat by MS Dhoni, were struggling to find boundaries, then Ishant, coming into bat in the last over, hit Jadeja for a four and six to end the innings with a flourish. Watch it here: But there was no animated reactions nor the meeting between the players even though Amit Mishra, Ishant's partner at the other end, congratulated the lanky batsman. Delhi set Chennai a 148-run target. For in-depth, objective and more importantly balanced journalism, Click here to subscribe to Outlook Magazine<doc-sep>Defending champions Chennai Super Kings Friday entered their eighth IPL final and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni credited the clinical effort of his bowing unit for setting up the platform for the comfortable win over Delhi Capitals in the Qualifier 2 in Visakhapatnam. ((Full Scorecard)) Opting to bowl, CSK first restricted DC to 147 for nine and then chased down the target with six wickets in hand to set up a clash against Mumbai Indians in the IPL final in Hyderabad on Sunday. “The crucial part was to keep getting wickets. The credit needs to go to the bowlers. The captain only asks this is what I need. Then it’s up to them to figure out how to bowl, and they have to put in the hard yards,” Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony. “Thanks to the bowling department for where we are this season. I would have preferred it if the openers finished it off. Once they got the required rate below 6 an over, there was no reason to play big shots and get out. They did the hard yards,” he added. Dhoni also lauded the entire CSK team for producing a clinical performance when it mattered. ALSO READ: Shahid Afridi reveals why he chose Virat Kohli over Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni in his all-time World Cup XI “It’s the usual route, last year was the exception. The kind of response from the boys today was brilliant. The way we batted to get 140-plus runs was very nice,” he said. “The spinners got some turn, and we kept getting wickets at the right time.” DC captain Shreyas Iyer blamed his batting department for the loss. “We had a disappointing start, losing two wickets in the powerplay, and it was hard to recover from that. They have amazing spinners. But we’ve had a great season,” he said. “None of the batsmen took the initiative to take the team through and there wasn’t a partnership buidling. Disappointing for us but a good learning.” Iyer spoke about the pitch on offer this season at their home turf at the Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium. “It’s something to think about (the Delhi pitch). We didn’t win too many home games, but we can’t complain about pitches. We’ve been practising a lot on slow wickets. As professionals we can’t give excuses,” he said. ALSO READ: IPL 2019 Qualifier 2 Highlights: Chennai beat Delhi by 6 wickets, to face Mumbai in final “I think we’ve learned a lot, looking at seniors like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma leading their teams. It’s a proud moment for me, standing with them at the toss. They talk to me, share their experiences, and that’s great for me.” Shedding more light on his experience of leading the team, Iyer said: “I’ve heard Rohit and many of them talk about how difficult it is to be captain, and yeah, it’s not an easy job to do, but I’m happy to be the captain. Really proud of the boys. Loving the way we’ve gelled as a family. The coaches and support staff have been amazing. A lot more to come next season. We’ve found the base, now is the time to grow,” he said. The Man of the match Faf du Plessis, who hit a 39-ball 50 during the chase, said CSK’s experience of winning big games did the trick even though they didn’t have a very good outing in the last phase of the tournament this season. “We didn’t have the best run in the last five or six games, but we do have a lot of confidence as a team that’s won a lot of big games. We drew a lot of strength from that,” he said. “Our strength is to get partnerships going and extend that, even if we take our time initially. We’ve got a lot of good batsmen down the order, and we back them to catch up with the required rate.”<doc-sep>Watson and du Plessis’ half-centuries power the Chennai side’s chase after a commendable effort by the bowlers had restricted Delhi to 147 After Chennai Super Kings’ defeat in the first qualifier, M.S. Dhoni had noted, with some forthrightness, that his experienced top-order had let him down. He wasn’t complaining a great deal on Friday. Openers Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson scored brisk half-centuries as CSK marched into an eighth IPL final with a six-wicket defeat of Delhi Capitals. After a disciplined bowling effort had helped restrict Delhi to 147, CSK cantered home with six balls to spare at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Dhoni’s men will now meet Mumbai Indians in the final in Hyderabad on Sunday. CSK embarked on the run chase watchfully, scoring only 16 off the first four overs. But having eased himself in, du Plessis moved up a gear in the fifth, delicately lofting Axar Patel inside-out over the cover boundary. In the following over, Ishant Sharma was dispatched for three fours in a row. Amit Mishra was then swept fiercely and an off-target Keemo Paul punished. du Plessis was caught on the square-leg boundary for 50 (39b), the openers having added 81 in 10.2 overs. At the other end, Watson had similarly taken a while to get going, needing 15 balls to score his first boundary — a generous full toss down leg from Paul that was gratefully steered to the fence. And then the other Watson emerged — that brutal, muscular, unhesitant striker of the cricket ball. Yorked! Keemo Paul is done in by a beauty from Dwayne Bravo. Axar was slog-swept into the stands with some fury and Mishra lap-swept. Watson took Paul apart next, clobbering the West Indian for three sixes in the 12th over. Paul felt bowling cutters was the best approach on this surface, but Watson happily dined on them. The Australian fell to Mishra for 50, having done his job. Earlier, Delhi struggled for momentum after being put in to bat. Shreyas Iyer had felt this was a better pitch than the one rolled out a couple of days before, but scoring runs proved difficult all the same. CSK bowled 47 dot balls in all, and the first six of the innings wasn’t struck until the 16th over. Delhi’s opening pair was separated quickly. Only 41 were scored in the PowerPlay, and with spin from both ends, life was not easy. Delhi curiously shuffled the batting order that had served it so well, promoting Colin Munro to three. The New Zealander made 27 before he was caught on the square-leg boundary sweeping Ravindra Jadeja. Much depended on the pair of Rishabh Pant and Shreyas. With the run-rate stagnating, the Delhi captain thrashed at a googly from Imran Tahir; the top edge was swallowed by Suresh Raina at backward point. It seemed only a matter of time before Pant cut loose, but the anticipated explosion never truly occurred. CSK tied him down expertly, offering few loose deliveries. Pant tied down Pant batted for nearly an hour, facing 25 balls, but managed only two fours and a six. He was dismissed for a 25-ball-38, caught at long-on off Chahar. It took some unlikely late hits to the fence from Mishra, Trent Boult and Ishant Sharma to drag Delhi to 147. But that score would prove to be vastly inadequate.<doc-sep>
Chennai Super Kings celebrated their win over Delhi Capital in style ( Courtesy by BCCI ) Chennai Super Kings defeated Delhi Capitals by six wickets in Qualifier 2 at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Friday. Having restricted Delhi to a below-par 147 for nine, Chennai cruised home with an over to spare in Visakhapatnam, with openers South Africa skipper Du Plessis and Australian veteran Watson making identical scores of 50. CSK booked their spot in the Indian Premier League final against Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad on Sunday. This is Chennai's record eighth IPL final, as both teams will be gunning for a record fourth title. The two teams have met each other thrice in summit clashes of the tournament earlier with MI finishing on the winning side twice while the Chennai outfit came out triumphant once. While CSK won in 2010, MI finished on the winning side in 2013 and 2015. MS Dhoni led the celebration on and off the field as Chennai will now look to one over Mumbai, having lost all three encounters so far, in this edition of the IPL. Dhoni and his deputy Suresh Raina celebrated the win with their daughters as the Chennai Super Kings carried the celebrations into the dressing room. After the win, Dhoni also lauded the entire CSK team for producing a clinical performance when it mattered. "It's the usual route, last year was the exception. The kind of response from the boys today was brilliant. The way we batted to get 140-plus runs was very nice," Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony. "The spinners got some turn, and we kept getting wickets at the right time," Dhoni added.