Partnership

Partnership of the day, Dinesh Karthik and Gautam Gambhir, 79 in 8.2 overs
Delhi were wobbling at 67 for 4 when Gautam Gambhir found support from Dinesh Karthik to push on towards a competitive total. The challenges were plenty: the ball started to stop a bit, Shane Warne bowled a testing spell, slowing up his pace and getting turn, Siddarth Trivedi slipped in his cutters and Shaun Tait tried to beat them with pace in the air. Gambhir used his feet to tackle the threat of Warne and rotated the strike to Karthik, who provided the much-needed momentum with some big hits. Karthik reserved his best for Tait, hitting a hat-trick of fours in the 18th over - a drilled straight boundary, a whipped on-drive and a deliciously-timed cover drive. And he wasn't done yet. In the final over, he pulled Tait for a six before holing out to long-on off the last delivery

Over

M Vijay loots Praveen Kumar, Third over of Chennai Super Kings
Vijay took charge of the chase of 162 by taking 24 off a single over from Praveen Kumar. A short delivery was hooked for six, a slower one was dismissed over wide long-on, a leg-side delivery was worked past short fine leg and a length ball was clipped over deep square leg. Vijay's footwork was complemented by his placement and a right dose of power

Moment

It was the best shot of the day. Shaun Tait hurled across a pacy short-of-length delivery towards Paul Collingwood's rib cage but must have been stunned by the result. Collingwood played an imperiously nonchalant short-arm jab pull for a stunning six over backward square-leg boundary. It also caught Delhi's mindset perfectly. Delhi seemed to have entered the game with a plan. Since the dry pitch was getting slower, they wanted to cash in against the new ball. Collingwood's strike showcased that plan.