Some players are just made for the IPL! Take the case of Dwayne Smith. In 27 international T20 games for the West Indies, he has scored three half-centuries with a personal best of 72. It took him just seven games to better that feat for the Chennai Super Kings.
Smith’s third half-century of IPL 7, a scintillating 79 off just 51 balls, was enough to power Chennai to their sixth consecutive win, as they beat Delhi Daredevils by eight wickets at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Monday. Smith, first in the company of Brendon McCullum and then with Suresh Raina, destroyed the Delhi bowling with some explosive hitting.
Delhi had sauntered to 178 for five after being put in to bat by MS Dhoni, and it looked a competitive total on paper. But their bowlers’ inability to take early wickets came back to haunt them again as Chennai clinched the match in the final over.
Smith’s third half-century of IPL 7, a scintillating 79 off just 51 balls, was enough to power Chennai to their sixth consecutive win, as they beat Delhi Daredevils by eight wickets at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Monday. Smith, first in the company of Brendon McCullum and then with Suresh Raina, destroyed the Delhi bowling with some explosive hitting.
Delhi had sauntered to 178 for five after being put in to bat by MS Dhoni, and it looked a competitive total on paper. But their bowlers’ inability to take early wickets came back to haunt them again as Chennai clinched the match in the final over.