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After winning the toss and electing to bat first at their home ground, Delhi Capitals could only muster 155 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samson&#039;s Fiery Batting Powers Chennai to Easy Win, Delhi&#039;s Playoff Hopes in Jeopardy - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=16462\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samson&#039;s Fiery Batting Powers Chennai to Easy Win, Delhi&#039;s Playoff Hopes in Jeopardy - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi. 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