Delhi Daredevils played with ease as the openers put on 34 for the first wicket and 45 for the second. With JP Duminy coming up the order at no.3, another 24 were added, when the third wicket fell in the 16th over. Pietersen struck some hefty blows and DD finished an easy win with 7 balls remaining.
In the other match, CSK defeated Sun-Risers Hyderabad by 5 wickets and needlessly made life difficult for themselves in the end. Hyderabad had chosen to bat after winning the toss but could not pile up enough runs to make the target stiff. Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner were both removed by Ben Hilfenhaus in the 3rd over at the same score of 15. Aaron Finch, however, continued in the company of Lokesh Rahul and two of them added 52 for the third wicket, before Rahul fell at the score of 67. Venugopal Rao made a small contribution but the scoring rate had dipped noticeably even as Finch fell as the 5th wicket for 109 in the 18th over. SRH were rescued in the death overs by some lusty hitting by Darren Sammy and Karn Sharma and they finished with 145/5 in 20 overs.
CSK were not perturbed since the target was easily achievable, given their impressive batting line-up. Half the job was achieved, when Dwayne smith and Brendon McCullum put on 85 for the first wicket in the 11th over. Smith notched up a typically aggressive 46-ball 66 with 4 fours and 5 sixes and McCullum made 40 off 33 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. But the rate of scoring dipped as Suresh Raina departed early and du Plessis fell for a duck. Later, Ravindra Jadeja took 9 balls for his 6 runs and even Dhoni batted with some caution. The inevitable victory for CSK came with just three balls remaining. To the credit of SRH, their lead bowlers were restrictive. Dale Steyn gave away only 20 in his 4, without taking any wickets, while Bhuvi Kumar conceded 23 but also took 2 wickets.