In the last minute thrill, Delhi lost to Chennai and topped the list
The battle for the top spot was between Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings and Rishav Pant's Delhi Capitals. In the end, the Delhi Capitals lost to Dhoni by 3 wickets and secured their position in that position.
However, Delhi has played hard to overcome the 136-run challenge thrown by Chennai. That is why they lost 6 wickets and had only 2 balls. Still, victory is the last word. As a result of this victory, Delhi got 20 points after 13 matches. Chennai is in the second place with 16 points in the equal match.
Although the last over created quite a bit of drama and thrill. Delhi needed 8 runs in the last over to win. Hetmeyer took 2 runs from Dwayne Bravo. The next ball is wide. Run is also a. Total 2 runs. The next ball Akshar Patel could not take any run. Patel is out with the next ball.
The ball is the remaining three. Run required 2. The final drama seems to have frozen. But on the field, Kagiso Rabada batted hard and the ball went out of bounds. Delhi won by 3 wickets
After batting for 138, Prithviraj and Shikhar Dhawan combined for 24 runs. Prithvi was out for 16 runs. Shikhar Dhawan played 35 balls and scored 39 runs. Shreyash Ayre was dismissed for 2, but Rishav Pant was dismissed for 15, Ripple Patel for 18 and Ashwin for 2.
Shimron Hetmeyer made a bit of a storm at the last minute. He played 17 balls and remained unbeaten on 26 runs. Akshar Patel was dismissed for 5 runs and Rabada hit a boundary off 1 ball to leave the field.
Rabindra Jadeja and Shardul Tagore took two wickets each for Chennai. Deepak Huda, Jos Hazelwood and Dwayne Bravo took 1 wicket each.
Earlier, after losing the toss and opting to bat, Dhoni's team scored 137 runs for the loss of 5 wickets despite Chennai's 55 off 43 balls. Dhoni made 16 runs from 26 balls. Robin Uthappa scored 19 runs.