Rajasthan Royals (RR) were defeated by the Delhi Capitals (DC) in the reverse-clash of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 on Wednesday at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Winning the toss, Shreyas Iyer elected to bat first. However, the Capitals had a rocky start as their opening batsman Prithvi Shaw was out on the very first ball of the match followed by Ajinkya Rahane who looked out of touch and went back to the pavilion after a below-par total of 2 off 9 deliveries.
This is when Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer helped the team to reach a respectable score of 161 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the 20-over game. Dhawan scored 57 off 33 while Iyer amassed 53 off 43 deliveries. As far as the bowling is concerned, Jofra Archer performed was the wrecker-in-chief as he scalped three wickets and conceded just 19 runs.
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The bowling unit of Delhi Capitals managed to pull off a win for their team. After an explosive start by the Royals’ opening batsmen Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler, the bowlers especially Anrich Nortje and Tushar Deshpande along with Ravi Ashwin took important wickets to ensure that no partnership was formed at the batting end.
Stokes was the highest run-scorer for the Royals with 41 runs off 35 balls. For Capitals, Tushar Deshpande and Anrich Nortje took a couple of wickets each while Kagiso Rabada, Ashwin, and Axar Patel had one each to their name.
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After defeating Rajasthan Royals and DC reached the top of the table by winning six wins in eight games, the official twitter handle of Delhi Capitals took a dig at the former by sharing a hilarious meme. Capitals tweeted, ”RR Brand Manager to RR Admin: Next time, let’s just do a simple tweet like’All the best before every game.”
RR Brand Manager to RR Admin:#DCvRR @rajasthanroyals pic.twitter.com/GAMOkwiMxI
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) October 14, 2020
Though upset with their loss, the official twitter handle of Rajasthan Royals found an appropriate reply to the Capitals. They tweeted, “So..Tell me more about Secretly being in love with me.?”
https://t.co/ZbrNfzBIMK pic.twitter.com/avXIPcxPKp
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) October 14, 2020
