Fraser-McGurk’s blistering knock sets up DC’s victory over MI
The Australian’s 27-ball 84, along with handy contributions from Hope and Stubbs, powers the home side to 257 for four; the Mumbai out†t’s spirited chase, led by Tilak’s knock, falls 10 runs short; the win helps Pant’s men climb to †fth
The trend of gargantuan totals — in the Indian Premier League in general and at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in particular — continued. So did that of Delhi Capitals winning at home.
Riding on Jake FraserMcGurk’s pyrotechnics up front and Tristan Stubbs’ strong nish, DC posted 257 for four against Mumbai Indians. Despite the MI power-hitters clearing the boundary frequently, the Capitals pace trio of Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, and Rasikh Salam picked up wickets at regular intervals to control the proceedings.
As a result, despite the visiting team nishing just 10 runs behind the total, the game never slipped out of DC’s grasp.
With Prithvi Shaw failing a tness test just before the toss, Fraser-McGurk found a new opening partner in Abishek Porel.
The Australian smashed the MI bowlers all over the park as 89 came o the ve overs, 78 of them from his willow. His boundary-hitting ability was on display as he cleared the fence with power and panache.
That 80 o his 84 runs came o boundaries underlined his dominance. The best of his 17 boundary hits was the swing over long-on o a slower one to welcome Jasprit Bumrah into the attack.
With Bumrah being unable to strike up front, the MI attack struggled to peg DC back.
Fraser-McGurk’s innings epitomised fearless T20 batting.
In the death overs, Stubbs took on IPL rookies Luke Wood and Nuwan Thushara to push the Capitals
past the 250-run mark.
The MI top-order had no option but to go for it from the rst ball.
Once DC dismissed the top three batters in the PowerPlay, MI was always playing catch-up.
Khaleel struck twice, getting the big sh Rohit Sharma (top-edge to mido ) and Suryakumar Yadav (caught at cover).
Mukesh’s clever change of pace induced an error from Ishan Kishan.
Captain Hardik, Tilak Varma and Tim David continued the battle but had too much to catch up after the initial damage.
Rasikh’s variation in pace worked wonders as Capitals rose to fth in the points table.
DELHI CAPITALS
Jake Fraser-McGurk c Nabi b Chawla 84 (27b, 11x4, 6x6),
Abishek Porel c Kishan b Nabi 36
(27b, 3x4, 1x6), Shai Hope c Tilak b Wood 41 (17b, 5x6), Rishabh Pant c Rohit b Bumrah 29 (19b, 2x4, 2x6), Tristan Stubbs (not out) 48 (25b, 6x4, 2x6), Axar Patel (not out) 11 (6b, 1x6); Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-6): 8; Total (for four wkts. in 20 overs): 257.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-114 (Fraser-McGurk, 7.3 overs), 2-127 (Porel, 9.4), 3-180 (Hope, 13.4), 4-235 (Pant, 18.1).
MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING
Wood 4-0-68-1, Bumrah 4-0-35-1, Thushara 4-0-56-0, Chawla 4-0-36-1, Hardik 2-0-41-0, Nabi 2-0-20-1.
MUMBAI INDIANS
Ishan Kishan c Axar b Mukesh 20
(14b, 4x4), Rohit Sharma c Hope b Khaleel 8 (8b, 1x4), Suryakumar Yadav (Impact Player in place of Thushara) c Williams b Khaleel 26 (13b, 3x4, 2x6), Tilak Varma run out 63 (32b, 4x4, 4x6),
Hardik Pandya c Mukesh b Rasikh 46 (24b, 4x4, 3x6), Nehal Wadhera c Rishabh b Rasikh 4 (2b, 1x4),
Tim David lbw b Mukesh 37 (17b, 2x4, 3x6), Mohammad Nabi c Hope b Rasikh 7 (4b, 1x6), Piyush Chawla c Hope b Mukesh 10 (4b, 1x4, 1x6), Luke Wood (not out) 9
(3b, 1x6); Extras (b-2, lb-2, nb-1, w-12): 17; Total (for nine wkts. in 20 overs): 247.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-35 (Rohit, 3.1), 2-45 (Kishan, 4.1), 3-65 (Suryakumar, 5.6), 4-136 (Hardik, 12.3), 5-140 (Wadhera, 12.5), 6-210 (David, 17.4), 7-223 (Nabi, 18.3), 8-234 (Tilak, 19.1), 9-247 (Chawla, 19.6).
CAPITALS BOWLING
Williams 3-0-34-0, Khaleel 4-0-45-2, Mukesh 4-0-59-3, Kuldeep 3-0-47-0, Axar 2-0-24-0, Rasikh (Impact Player in place of Kushagra) 4-0-34-3.
Toss: MI; PoM: Fraser-McGurk.
Capitals won by 10 runs.