Shikhar Dhawan scored his maiden ton and Axar Patel hammered three sixes in the final over as Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by five wickets in Match 34 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in Sharjah yesterday.
Needing 180 runs to win, DC lost Prithvi Shaw’s wicket in the first over after Deepak Chahar completed a caught and bowled dismissal. The right-arm pacer scalped one more wicket in the powerplay after Sam Curran held on to a sharp catch at backward point to get rid of Ajinkya Rahane.
Dhawan was joined by Shreyas Iyer in the fifth over and the pair scored 12 runs in the final over of the powerplay, with Iyer hitting a six and Dhawan a four to take DC to 42/2.
