The Delhi Capitals defeated the Lucknow Super Giants in an eye watering match and registered their first win of the tournament. Today’s match could be belonged completely to any team. The Lucknow Super Giants posted a humongous total of 209 runs after losing the toss to the Delhi Capitals at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. Ashutosh Sharma’s 66* escalated the excitement of the spectators and this made him the man to look out for in the entire IPL season.
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The LSG batters performed exceptionally well, especially Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran, who scored 72 runs and 75 runs respectively. Mitchell Marsh’s 72 runs came in 36 balls with a strike rate of 200. At the same time, Nicholas Pooran played a monstrous innings of 75 runs in just 30 balls with a strike rate of 250. The captain Rishabh Pant failed to create an impact with the bat and was dismissed for a duck by Kuldeep Yadav. Marsh and Pooran’s batting led the LSG for a very admirable total. The DC bowlers apart from Axar failed to create an impact. In his three over spell, he spared just 18 runs but could not claim any wicket for himself. Although Mitchell Starc clinched three wickets in his four over spell but turned out to be very expensive by sparing 42 runs with an economy of 10.5.
The DC batting line up faced serious problem when three of their top four batters were dismissed early. The last minute entry of all-rounder Shardul Thakur really worked for the Lucknow franchisee. He dismissed Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abhishek Porel in his first over itself. Skipper Axar Patel was also sent back to the pavilion early on 22 runs by Durgesh Rathi. Vipraj and Ashutosh’s partnership brought Delhi back into the competition but the ‘Man of the Hour’ was Ashutosh Sharma. He led his team to victory and contributed the most in the match today for Delhi Capitals. Vipraj Nigam showed an intent to fight back when he smashed consecutive boundaries against the Lucknow bowlers, but his innings ultimately came to an end on 39 runs. Apart from Vipraj Nigam, Tristan Stubbs gave a good hand with the bat by smashing 34 runs. M Siddharth and Shardul Thakur took two wickets each for themselves with an economy of over 9 per over the YSR Reddy Stadium witnessed fireworks with batting of Marsh Puran and Vipra Nigam.
