On Thursday, Delhi Capitals (DC) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will be locking horns with each other at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi for the 16th match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). After winning the toss, the SRH skipper, Bhuvneshwar Kumar decided to bowl first on a slow looking Kotla pitch. SRH registered their third comfortable win by 5 wickets.
During the toss, the DC skipper, Shreyas Iyer revealed that they have made three changes in their squad as Hanuma Vihari, Avesh Khan, and Harshal Patel, made way for Rahul Tweatia, Axar Patel, and Ishant Sharma. On the other hand, SRH made no changes in the squad as their regular skipper, Kane Williamson is still recovering from his elbow injury.
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Batting collapse
After the early dismissals of Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw. DC’s veteran batsmen Iyer along with Rishabh Pant also failed to add many runs for the third wicket and he got dismissed by Mohammad Nabi in the 10th over. A few overs after that, Delhi faced another blow in the form of Colin Ingram owing to a brilliant catch from Manish Pandey.
After that dismissal, Delhi never managed to get back into the game as they kept on losing the wickets almost in every over, as Iyer was then dismissed by Rashid Khan in the 17th over and a couple of overs later, Chris Morris also lost his wicket. However, in the end, Axar Patel took the team to a respectable total as he smashed a couple of sixes in the final over and Delhi reached the total of 129/8 in their quota of 20 overs.
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During the chase, the SRH openers, Jonny Bairstow and David Warne gave a flamboyant start to visitors as they amassed more than 50 runs in the powerplay itself and the match was almost done by then for the hosts. However, After losing both of them in quick succession, SRH was looking some discomfort as they lost 3 wickets of Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, and Deepak Hooda in quick succession, but, in the end, Yusuf Pathan and Nabi took them to a comfortable win in the end by 5 wickets and 9 balls to spare.
Brief score:
Sunrisers Hyderabad – 131/5 in 18.3 overs (J Bairstow: 48, M Nabi: 17*; R Tewatia: 1/10) defeated Delhi Capitals – 129/8 in 20 overs (S Iyer: 43; M Nabi: 2/21, B Kumar: 2/27) by 5 wickets
