The 13th match of IPL 2024 was played between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals. Delhi Capitals team won this match by 20 runs. This is the first defeat of Chennai Super Kings this season. First win for Delhi Capitals. After the victory in this match, Delhi Capitals team has moved from 9th place to 7th place in the points table, while Chennai Super Kings team has now moved from first place to second place. After Chennai’s defeat, team captain Ruturaj Gaikwad looked quite disappointed. After the match, he told where the team made mistakes and why they had to lose the match.
What did Ruturaj say?
After their first defeat of the season against Delhi, Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad said that he was pleased with the way the Chennai Super Kings bowlers made a comeback in the powerplay after the start. It was a good effort to restrict Delhi to 191. Regarding the pitch, he said that the pitch was in better condition in the first innings. There was extra seam movement and spongy bounce in the second innings. In fact, it was also seen in the second innings that Delhi bowlers were getting a lot of help from the pitch in the initial overs. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Rachin Ravindra had to face a lot of problems.
The captain told where the mistake happened
Ruturaj Gaikwad further said that I thought Rachin was missing by a big margin because of the seam. We couldn’t get ahead in the first three overs and that was the difference. This was achievable at half the stage. There was extra seam movement and we could not take advantage of it and we were always behind. We did not get big overs to reduce the run rate. Not really if there is an extra bowler in the line up to help in the powerplay. Deepak is always used to bowling 3 overs. Even though the first four overs were good, the last two were costly. After two good games you can expect the third game to be below par and there is nothing to worry about. Just two or three hits here and there, if we had stopped one or two boundaries in the field, things could have been different.
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