{"id":29777,"date":"2018-05-01T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=29777"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:31:16","slug":"watson-msd-power-csk-to-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/watson-msd-power-csk-to-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson, MSD power CSK to top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pune,<br \/>\nShane Watson and MS Dhoni scored scintillating half-centuries to set up a 13-run win over Delhi Daredevils here on Monday, taking the two-time IPL champions closer to a playoff berth. Watson (78 off 40) and Dhoni (51* off 22) gave a masterclass in power hitting to fire Super Kings to 211\/4 after Daredevils opted to field on a good batting surface.<\/p>\n<p>Needing more than 10 per over put scoreboard pressure on the visitors and they wilted under pressure. Delhi kept losing wickets in the chase and at 74\/4 in ninth over, it seemed all over for them. However, Rishabh Pant (79 off 45) and Vijay Shankar (51* off 31) took Daredevils close to the target but it was not enough as they ended at 198\/5.<\/p>\n<p>Super Kings pacer Lungi Ngidi impressed on his IPL debut, ending with figures of 1\/26 in four overs.<\/p>\n<p>It was Delhi\u2019s sixth loss in eight games and they are all but out of the playoff race. With a sixth win in eight games, CSK reclaimed their position at the top of the points table. They are tied on 12 points with Sunrisers Hyderabad but have a better run rate.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune, Shane Watson and MS Dhoni scored scintillating half-centuries to set up a 13-run win over Delhi Daredevils here on Monday, taking the two-time IPL champions closer to a playoff berth. Watson (78 off 40) and Dhoni (51* off 22) gave a masterclass in power hitting to fire Super Kings to 211\/4 after Daredevils opted [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29779,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29777\/revisions\/29779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}