The Delhi Capitals (DC) and Mumbai Indians (MI) are locking horns for the second time with each other at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi and this time Mumbai dominated. After winning the toss, the MI skipper, Rohit Sharma decided to bat first. However, the visitors started on a decent note as both their openers, Rohit and Quinton de Kock came out all guns blazing which helped them to win the game by 40 runs.
During the toss, the DC skipper, Shreyas Iyer revealed that they have made no changes to the squad in order to maintain consistency. On the other hand, MI made a couple of changes in their squad as Ishan Kishan and Jason Behrendroff made way for Ben Cutting and Jayant Yadav.
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Rohit and De Kock added as many as 57 runs in the powerplay, but on the first ball of the 7th over, the MI skipper was dismissed by Amit Mishra. Surprisingly, Cutting came out to bat at no.3 and he also got dismissed in the 8th ver by Axar Patel. Surya Kumar Yadav was building a partnership with De Kock but only managed to add just 12 runs for the third wicket as some huge confusion took place between the two owing to some brilliant fielding display from Kagiso Rabada.
Hardik’s Knock
Yadav also got out in the 16th over, then both the Pandya brothers took the innings to the final over and the much-awaited battle was on as Hardik was facing Rabada in the final over and both of them got benefitted as Rabada got the wicket after getting smashed for a six. Krunal then took Mumbai to a total of 168/5 in their quota of 20 overs.
Chahar’s spell
During the chase, Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw had a fiery start as they added 48 runs in the powerplay. Similar to MI, Delhi also lost their first wicket in the 7th over as Dhawan was dismissed by young Rahul Chahar while attempting a reverse sweep. After his dismissal, Delhi lost the plot completely as from 49/0 they were reeling at 63/4. Apart from Shikhar, Chahar dismissed Iyer and Shaw as well.
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Rishabh Pant attempted to build a partnership with Axar Patel. But he was cleaned by the fiery delivery from Jasprit Bumrah in the 14th over. BY then. Dc had almost lost the game, but then Azar and Chris Morris added 31 runs for the 6th wicket as Morris got out in the 17h over followed by Keemo Paul and Patel on the next two deliveries and finally, the hosts lost the game by 40 runs.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indians – 168/5 in 20 overs (K Pandya: 37*, H Pandya: 32; K Rabada: 2/38) defeated Delhi Capitals – 128/9 in 20 overs (S Dhawan: 35; R Chahar: 3/19, J Bumrah: 2/18) by 40 runs
