Manish Pandey faces Pathirana’s 148.8kph yorker, but fails to handle it as he attempts to swing across the line after clearing his front leg. The sheer pace of the ball beats him, and he gets trapped low on the back leg, adjacent to the middle-stump.
The decision is easy for the umpire as it’s plumb out! Pathirana strikes in his very first over, claiming a crucial wicket. Despite a sluggish start, MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja’s late flurry of runs, along with Shivam Dube’s contribution, helped Chennai Super Kings (CSK) recover to a total of 167/8 in their 20 overs.
The pitch was slow, which caused CSK to struggle in the beginning, and Delhi Capitals faced a similar fate. They lost David Warner and Phil Salt early on, and Mitchell Marsh fell after a miscommunication with Manish Pandey.
Pandey and Rilee Rossouw tried to build a partnership, but their slow scoring rate increased the required rate for DC. Pandey departed after scoring 27 off 29 balls, and Rossouw fell after scoring 35 off 37 balls, with their partnership taking 59 balls to produce the same number of runs.
In the earlier stages, CSK was struggling at 77/4 in 11 overs on a pitch that progressively became slower. However, Dhoni and Jadeja shared a 38-run partnership for the seventh wicket, which came in just 18 balls, with Dhoni smashing 20 runs in nine balls.
Prior to this, Dube scored 25 runs in 12 balls after the top order struggled against Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Lalit Yadav’s spin. Mitchell Marsh bowled a fantastic final over, taking two wickets and conceding only seven runs, finishing with figures of 3/18.