India, May 6 -- Former Australia captain Aaron Finch was left baffled by Axar Patel's decision to bat first against the Chennai Super Kings, despite the Delhi Capitals not having won a single game defending a total this season. The decision came back to haunt the captain and the management as Chennai chased down 156 in 17.3 overs with eight wickets in hand on Tuesday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Speaking to ESPNcricinfo, Finch tore into Axar for the "head-scratching" call, saying it "made no sense" at all, especially with so much information available to teams in the age of data and analytics.

"Absolutely, it was a big mess up. You can't sugarcoat it. When you have all the information with you-that they haven't won batting first-it make...