DC vs SRH Match Highlights And Report-IPL: It now seems to have become a routine for Sunrisers Hyderabad this season. SRH piled up more than 250 runs for the third time this season and eventually defeated Delhi Capitals by a significant margin of 67 runs.
Travis Head once again starred for SRH with the bat, and so did Abhishek Sharma in what was utter carnage from the two openers in the powerplay. While Klaasen failed today, Shahbaz Ahmed stepped up with a fire-cracking knock to take SRH to 266.
For Delhi, only Jake Fraser-McGurk showed a fight—and quite an impressive one with a 15-ball half-century—but none of the other batters could hang around for long enough to make a contest.
DC vs SRH Match Highlights And Report-IPL
In Delhi Capitals’ first home game of the season at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Rishabh Pant opted to bowl first after winning the toss. What followed was record-breaking stuff from Head and Abhishek.
Right from pulling Khaleel for a six on the second ball of the match, Head and Abhishek delivered blow after blow throughout the six powerplay overs. SRH scored 125/0 in the first six overs, the highest powerplay score in T20 cricket anywhere in the world.
Head scored 84 (26) and Abhishek scored 40 (10) in the powerplay. Head raised a 16-ball half-century, equalling Abhishek’s record for the fastest IPL fifty by an SRH batsman.
Pant tried five different bowlers in the powerplay, from left-arm and right-arm medium pacers and an express pacer to an off-spinner and a left-arm wrist-spinner. But such was the flawless nature of the pitch and the short ground dimensions that SRH openers found it too easy to plunder boundaries. The runs leaked in the first six overs read: 19, 21, 22, 21, 20, 22.
Delhi made a mini-comeback after the powerplay. Kuldeep Yadav struck with the wickets of Abhishek, Markram, and Head, while Axar bowled Klaasen for only 15.
However, the incoming SRH batters were in no mood to stem the attacking intent. Shahbaz and Nitish Reddy made sure that SRH got to a safe total even after the mini-collapse. Reddy scored 37 (27) while Shahbaz made his maiden IPL fifty, slamming 59* (29). It was fitting that Shahbaz completed SRH’s innings with a six on the last ball.
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To start the chase, Prithvi Shaw creamed Washington Sundar for 4 consecutive fours but Sundar had the last laugh as Shaw mistimed a lofted shot to cover. Warner fell cheaply again, to Bhuvneshwar in the second over.
Jake Fraser-McGurk, though, was not going to yield just yet. The young Aussie batter clobbered 30 runs in an over against Sundar. Pat Cummins leaked 20 runs in his first over as Abishek Porel joined Fraser-McGurk in the hitting action.
Delhi posted 88/2 in the powerplay, and right after it, Fraser-McGurk reached his half-century in 15 balls. However, in the same over, after hitting three sixes to Mayank Markande, Fraser-McGurk holed out, trying to hit another maximum. He was dismissed for 65 (18).
A couple of overs later, Porel (42 off 22) was outdone by Markande, and from thereon, there was nobody from DC to challenge SRH. Pant seemed to have given up already and looked to be batting to mitigate net run rate damage: the DC skipper scored 44 (35). Delhi were bowled out for 199, going down by 67 runs.
Score summary: Sunrisers Hyderabad 266/7 in 20 overs (Travis Head 89, Kuldeep Yadav 4/55); Delhi Capitals 199/10 in 19.1 overs (Jake Fraser-McGurk 65, T Natarajan 4/19). SRH defeated DC by 67 runs.
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