Chennai bowled by Delhi

Chennai, Apr 15: The turning track of MA Chidambaram stadium could not support the home side tonight, whose batting surrendered completely to the disciplined Delhi Daredevils’ bowling attack and put a target of 113 for them to chase.
For the visiting side, Nehra provided the two important breakthroughs early in the innings while the spin bowling of Sehwag proved too much for the home side to take in the middle of their innings. He also contributed with two wickets.
None of Chennai batsmen, except S Badrinath (30 off 29 balls) could cross the 20-run mark, after their skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat first.
Earlier, Hayden (1 off 5 balls) could not make much use of the life he got in the first over bowled by Dirk Nannes and tried a lofted shot that was neatly taken by Paul Collingwood in the next over.
Murali Vijay seemed to be in the form of his life from the outset, playing equally well in the front foot and the back.
The idea of coming up the order did not pay-off for MS Dhoni, who could not control the perfect bouncer by Nannes and got out at square leg. He was followed by in-form Vijay (17 off 11balls), who played a similar shot and got the same result behind the wicket.
Suresh Raina, who has been scoring with a staggering average of over 51 in this year’s IPL, tried to take the innings forward with Mr. Cricket, Michael Hussey, but Tillakaratne Dilshan, making a comeback after playing the first four matches, provided the precious wicket of Raina (15 off 19 balls), who missed time the stroke completely and holed out at deep cover by Umesh Yadav.
Wickets of Hussey (15 off 18 balls) and Albie Morkel (1 off 4 balls) broke the back of the home side, who were reduced to 55/6 at the half way mark.
R Ashiwin (6 off 13 balls) and L Balaji (3 off 8 balls) came and went too quickly, leaving too much for Badrinath to do at the end, who tried hard but finally gave a simple catch to David Warner at long-on on the last ball of their innings.