In the 50th fixture of the VIVO IPL 2021, Delhi Capitals will be taking on Chennai Super Kings at the Dubai International Stadium on Monday at 7:30 PM IST.
Delhi Capitals have comfortably qualified for the playoffs and have acquired the second spot in the points table after Chennai Super Kings. With both teams having an equal of 18 points each, they’ll be looking forward to Monday’s fixture to fight for that number one spot. In their last game, the Rishabh Pant-led Delhi Capitals beat Mumbai Indians by four wickets. The steady partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin helped the franchise seal the victory. While on the bowling side Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan, and Axar Patel will be looking forward to getting some crucial wickets against CSK. It is also important to note that the Delhi based franchise is just one victory short of 100 wins in the IPL.
Chennai Super Kings will be looking forward to defending their number one spot in the points table. The three-time IPL winners will be looking forward to bouncing back from their poor performance in the last match as they lost against Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis have been performing consistently well with the bat in phase 2. Apart from the openers, Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja have also been the star performers for the franchise.
Head-to-Head:
Both teams have faced each other on 24 occasions, where Chennai won 15 games while Delhi emerged victorious on nine instances.
The last time RCB and PBKS faced each other was back in phase 1 of the competition, where Delhi Capitals won by seven wickets against Chennai.
Team News:
Delhi Capitals – DC will be missing out on the services of Marcus Stoinis due to an injury.
Chennai Super Kings – CSK will have a fully fit squad available at their disposal
TV and LIVE streaming details:
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Sponsors:
Delhi Capitals – The Principal sponsors of DC are JSW, Apollo Steel Tubes, Ebixcash, and Reliance Jio.
Chennai Super Kings- The Principal sponsors of CSK are Myntra, India Cements, Gulf, SNJ Distilleries, British Empire, SNJ 10000, Reliance Jio, Nippon Paint, and Equitas Small Finance Bank.