Pat Cummins, the SRH captain, scored three goals to help limit DC to just 133. SRH Vs DC
Delhi Capitals 133 for 7 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (Stubbs 41*, Ashutosh 41, Cummins 3-19) with no outcome
The IPL 2025 playoff dreams of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) were officially ended by rain, while the Delhi Capitals (DC) gained what might be a crucial point in their attempt to place in the top four. After Pat Cummins took three new-ball wickets to put SRH in the lead at the innings break, it appeared that DC had gained a point rather than lost it.
Soon after the rain arrived, DC was sent to bat and ended their innings at 133 for 7. The official cut-off time for a five-over chase is 11.42 pm, but by the time the weather cleared, the outfield was too soaked for the ground crew to clear.
c Kishan b Cummins, repeatedly, repeatedly SRH Vs DC
With Mohammed Shami out of the game, the SRH skipper took the new ball alone and hit the first ball, causing it to straighten and land on Karun Nair’s edge. It indicated things to come because the ball would often stop on the batter or deviate sideways, generally just enough to find the edge, especially if it was delivered with a wobbling seam.
By the time he had bowled 19 balls, Cummins had claimed three wickets, and Ishan Kishan, who was relieving Heinrich Klaasen of the gloves for the first time this season, had made three catches.
In the eighth over, DC was struggling at 29 for 5, with Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat also contributing to the wickets total. The conditions were summed up by the fullish ball that Unadkat bowled to dismiss KL Rahul from the left-arm around. Rahul would have most likely middled the drive he attempted on nine of ten IPL pitches; on the tenth pitch, the ball straightened to kiss his edge, making Kishan the first keeper to catch out an entire top four in an IPL innings.
DC is guided towards respectability by Stubbs and Ashutosh.
With a partnership of 33 with Vipraj Nigam for the sixth wicket (Nigam gave up his wicket after a mix-up left both batsmen at the same end) and 66 with Ashutosh Sharma for the seventh, Tristan Stubbs spearheaded DC’s comeback from that point.
Despite starting first, DC selected a bowler-heavy starting lineup, as they have done in previous games, and called up Ashutosh from the Impact Player bench when necessary. Ashutosh was largely responsible for a late burst that saw DC reach 61 runs off their final six overs, hitting three sixes in a 26-ball 41. Stubbs finished undefeated on 41 off 36 balls.
Rain puts SRH’s hopes to rest. SRH Vs DC
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Soon after DC’s innings ended, rain started to fall, leaving SRH waiting to start a chase that would never happen.
SRH may finish the league stage with a maximum of 13 points and three games remaining. Four clubs have at least 14 points already. DC is slightly outside of that group with 13 out of 11 games.
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s (SRH) all-out strategy backfired for the second time in two games as Mitchell Starc’s T20 best helped the Delhi Capitals (DC) win two straight games in Vizag.
Head 2-0 Starc
Starc looked dangerous, just as he did in the IPL final the previous year, but he received assistance. Ishan Kishan slashed to deep third, local boy Nitish Reddy flung a slow offcutter to mid-on, and Abhishek Sharma ran himself out in the opening over.
