In a hard fought game, Delhi prevailed to lock the top of the table three ways.  

A notably subpar batting performance from Chennai, which seemed mysteriously lacking in energy, meant they posted a total of 169, which was overhauled with an over to spare by Delhi.  

Great bowling from the Daredevils - and an explosive start from the Indian dream ticket of Sehwag and Gambhir - led to a head start that Chennai simply couldn’t pull back…

IPL Match Report
Date                                   : 2/5/2008
Teams (Home first)               : Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils
Result                                  : Delhi won, 8 wickets
Toss Won                            : Chennai, chose to bat
Top Bat Home                      : Vidyut, 54
Top Bat Away                      : Sehwag, 71
Highest first 6 over score        : Che 47, Del 64
Highest Opening Partnership   : Che 23, Del 115
Total sixes hit                       : Che 5, Del 5
Total wides                          : Del bowled 4, Che bowled 2
Total run outs                      : 1

Lineups / Scorecard

Chennai
P. Patel          c Mahesh    b Sehwag  21 (20b)
S. Fleming       b Mahesh                   13 (13b)
S. Vidyut        c Mahesh    b McGrath  54 (37b)
M. Dhoni         c Malik        b Asif        32 (27b)
A. Morkel        c Sehwag    b Bhatia    28 (16b)
S. Raina          run out                        3 (4b)
S. Badrinath    not out                      11 (5b)
J. Sharma       not out                        0 (0b)
M. Ntini
M. Gony
M. Muralitharan
Total             (6 wickets, 20 overs)       169

Delhi
G. Gambhir      b Gony                          50 (37b)
V. Sehwag      c Muralitharan  b Sharma  71 (41b)
A. De Villiers    not out                         26 (21b)
S. Dhawan      not out                         18 (17b)
S. Malik
D. Karthik
R. Bhatia
Y. Mahesh
G. McGrath
P. Sangwan
M. Asif
Total            (2 wickets, 19 overs)       172

Chennai opened up with IPL debutant Stephen Fleming and cameo specialist Parthiv Patel, facing up to IPL’s best opening bowling attack, McGrath and Asif. 

After 3 characteristically tight overs from the openers, Asif was saved for later in the innings and replaced by Mahesh....