Ending the league matches in a superb and commendable way, Delhi Daredevils was the
first team to get into the playoffs. Being in the top position in the tally
table, the team played their first playoff match against second placed Kolkata
Knight Riders on May 22. But when their fabulous performance was much needed in
the Qualifier 1 match, the team players faltered slightly and their opponent
Kolkata team took the advantage of the situation to make their way into the
final.
However, being in the top position, Delhi will get another
opportunity to make their way into the final on May 25, 2012. Tomorrow
Qualifier 2 match of the playoffs will be played between Delhi Daredevils and
Chennai Super Kings, the winner of yesterday’s Eliminator match. This match
will be played at MA Chidambaram
Stadium, Chennai from 8.00 pm onwards.
With a number of explosive
batsmen in the team, Delhi Daredevils is strong enough to clash down the moral
of the rival bowlers but unfortunately this strategy did not work last night.
Throughout the group matches, the team players proved them as the most consistent
team and what they have missed last night, they will surely look for grabbing
that tomorrow. While analyzing the last match, there were a number of mistakes
in Shewag’s team. Firstly, for low and slow wicket, this team appeared in the
cricket field with only four medium pacers and one spinner. Secondly, the final
order of eleven players needed a revision when they lost some early wickets.
Ross Taylor should have come up at 5 and later Jayawardena admitted this
mistake.
However, after giving such
an impressive performance throughout the league, along with all IPL viewers,
Delhi boys are also hoping to play in the final and for that they have to
overcome all the previous mistakes in tomorrow’s match to wipe out Chennai
Super kings from this IPL 2012. Captain Virender
Shewag and David Warner make a powerful opening
partnership to raise fire in the field and they have to do so tomorrow. Chennai
bowlers will for these two big wickets followed by middle order batsmen,
Jayawardena, Ojha, Taylor and Negi. At time Pathan appears as an explosive
all-rounder to give a big boost to the team score. To ensure their position in
the final, Delhi batsmen have to make a 200+ challenging score against Chennai.
On the other hand, Morne
Morkel is the gem of the bowling squad. He is one of the leading wicket takers
in this season with 25 wickets from 16 league matches. He along with Negi,
Yadav and Pathan has to do the rest of the work by taking regular wickets. If
all these factors work properly, then it is very tough to restrict Delhi.
Also Delhi is a favorite
tomorrow because of its formidable performance level and the consistency that
this team maintained throughout the season. Contrary to this prediction, the
western bookies predicted that there is 47% chance for Delhi to get a victory.
Bookies such as William Hill, Paf, Bwin and Bet365 are offering 1/1 odds
whereas Bet-at-home is offering 4/5 on a Delhi victory.
Probable squad for Delhi Daredevils: Virender
Sehwag (c), Ross Taylor, Naman Ojha (wk), Mahela Jayawardene, David Warner,
Venugopal Rao, Irfan Pathan, Morne Morkel, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Varun
Aaron.
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