Harbhajan Singh once again played a crucial role in Chennai Super Kings’ 6-wicket win over Delhi Capitals on Friday at Visakhapatnam that took them to their 8th IPL final. Harbhajan picked up two crucial wickets and helped CSK restrict DC to a modest total of 147 for 9 on a sluggish track.
Harbhajan gave DC a body blow by removing Shikhar Dhawan for 18 in the final over of the Powerplay. Rutherford became Harbhajan’s second victim towards the back-end of the DC innings. Harbhajan finished with figures of 4-0-31-2.
In the process Harbhajan also became only the fourth cricketer in the history of IPL to get to 150 wickets. Harbhajan is only the third Indian to do so and he currently stands at No. 3 in the highest wicket-takers’ list of IPL only behind Lasith Malinga (169) and Amit Mishra (157). Both Harbhajan and Piyush Chawla have 150 wickets but the off-spinner has a better economy(7.05) rate than the latter.
