Capitals host formidable Royals in a crucial encounter
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD Travis Head c Tilak b Chawla 48
Abhishek Sharma c Ishan b Bumrah 11 (16b, 1x6), Mayank Agarwal b Kamboj 5 (6b, 1x4), Nitish Kumar Reddy c Kamboj b Hardik 20 (15b, 2x4), Heinrich Klaasen b Chawla 2 (4b), Marco Jansen b Hardik 17 (12b, 1x4, 1x6), Shahbaz Ahmed c Suryakumar b Hardik 10 (12b), Abdul Samad lbw b Chawla 3 (4b), Pat Cummins (not out) 35 (17b, 2x4, 2x6), Sanvir Singh (Impact Player in place of Abhishek) (not out) 8 (7b); Extras (lb-2, nb-3, w-9): 14; Total (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): 173.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-56 (Abhishek, 5.5 overs), 2-68 (Mayank, 7.4), 3-90 (Head, 10.3), 4-92 (Nitish, 11.1), 5-96 (Klaasen, 12.1), 6-120 (Shahbaz, 15.1), 7-124 (Jansen, 15.5), 8-136 (Samad, 16.6).
MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING Thushara 4-0-42-0, Kamboj 4-0-42-1, Bumrah 4-0-23-1, Hardik 4-0-31-3, Chawla 4-0-33-3.
MUMBAI INDIANS
(7b, 2x4), (5b, 1x4),
(9b),
(51b, 12x4, 6x6), (32b, 6x4);
FALL OF WICKETS
1-26 (Kishan, 1.4), 2-31 (Rohit, 3.2), 3-31 (Dhir, 4.1).
SUNRISERS BOWLING Bhuvneshwar 4-1-22-1, Jansen 3-0-45-1, Cummins 4-1-35-1, Natarajan 3.2-0-31-0, Nitish 2-0-16-0, Shahbaz 1-0-11-0. Toss: Mumbai Indians. PoM: Suryakumar
MI won by seven wickets with 16 balls to spare
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It would stand Delhi Capitals in good stead if Warner can fire at the top.
Delhi Capitals’ (DC) stopstart IPL 2024 campaign enters its nal lap as it takes on formidable Rajasthan Royals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Tuesday.
DC began the season on the wrong foot, losing four of its rst ve games. But the Rishabh Pant-led side soon clicked into gear, winning four of its next ve matches to put itself in contention for a playo spot.
But a heavy defeat against Kolkata Knights Riders in its last match means DC’s top-four chances hinge on other results going its way.
For the Royals, the plot has been far more buoyant. Sanju Samson’s men have been on a roll, winning eight of their 10 matches.
Batting re-power
Royals’ success this season has been built around their well-rounded batting unit. They currently boast four players — Riyan Parag, Samson, Yashavi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler — with a 300+ run tally, more than any other team this season.
Royals’ batting brawn will t well with the conditions here, which has seen runs ow faster than any other venue in this IPL (11.85 runs per over).
DC too has some repower in its rank, with the prominent ammunition being its young Aussie opener Jake Fraser-McGurk, who has scored 259 runs at a scarcely believable strikerate of 233.33 in his debut IPL season.
When these two sides met earlier in the season, in Jaipur, Rajasthan Royals squeezed out a 12-run win. A similar result on Tuesday could all but ring the death knell for DC’s IPL campaign.