The IPL 2024 playoff race simply obtained extra attention-grabbing. Second-placed Rajasthan Royals suffered yet one more loss as their entry into playoffs obtained held off as soon as once more. They misplaced by 20 runs to Delhi Capitals to stick with 16 factors from 11 sport. Delhi Capitals made a large acquire and are fifth with 12 factors from 12 video games. Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli (542) proceed to be the highest run-getter and maintain the Orange Cap. Mumbai Indians Jasprit Bumrah (18 wickets) is the top-wicket-taker and maintain the Purple Cap.
Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar bowled excellent spells as bowlers got here to the fore as Delhi Capitals saved alive their hopes of reaching the Playoffs of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 with a 20-run win over Rajasthan Royals on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday. After Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abishek Porel slammed fifties in contrasting trend, whereas Tristan Stubbs utilized ending touches with a 20-ball 41 to propel Delhi Capitals to 221/8, Kuldeep and Mukesh bowled decisive spells of 2-25 and 2-30 respectively to limit Rajasthan Royals to 201/8.
The win sees DC leap to fifth place within the factors desk and at the moment are tied with Lucknow Tremendous Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Tremendous Kings at 12 factors. It’s also the second straight time that RR, regardless of a superb 86 from captain Sanju Samson, have failed to finish a chase and wish to attend longer to seal their Playoff spot.
Khaleel Ahmed struck in his first over as he had Yashasvi Jaiswal miscuing a slower bouncer to mid-off. Sanju Samson upped the ante with elegant timing on his loft, drive, flat-batted smashes, punch, flick and piercing the gaps in cowl with precision to hit 5 fours and three sixes within the power-play.
However RR misplaced Jos Buttler within the final over of the six-over part, as he chopped onto his stumps off Axar Patel, which means his catch being dropped by Tristan Stubbs did not develop into expensive for DC. With Axar and Kuldeep working in tandem, DC compelled a slowdown by giving 25 runs in overs 7-10, although Riyan Parag obtained two sixes and a 4.
That effort paid off as Parag was castled by a slower ball from Rasikh Salam which hit the highest of off-stump. Samson went on to get his fifth IPL 2024 fifty in 28 balls by clearing his entrance leg and smacking Kuldeep over long-on for six off a free hit. Sitting deep within the crease, Samson hit Rasikh for six over long-on, adopted by reducing and muscling him for 4 and 6 respectively.
With 91 runs wanted off 42 balls, Samson simply cleared cowl off Ishant for 4, earlier than Shubham Dubey punched and muscled the pacer for 4 and 6 respectively to take 17 runs off the 14th over. Khaleel gifting away 4 wides in an 11-run fifteenth over meant the equation for RR turned 63 runs off 30 balls for the win.
Samson’s fantastic knock got here to an finish in dramatic circumstances when Shai Hope took a screamer of a catch at long-on, simply millimetres away from the boundary rope off Mukesh. Although he walked as much as the umpire in protest, it was in useless as Samson needed to depart for 86.
From there, DC got here again within the match as Shubham Dubey holed out to long-on off Khaleel. Kuldeep trapped Donovan Ferreira plumb lbw and had Ravichandran Ashwin holing out to long-on in his closing over. Regardless of a slow-over charge penalty within the closing over, the place DC may area solely 4 fielders outdoors the 30-yard circle, Mukesh castled Rovman Powell, which was sufficient to get DC an important win.
With IANS inputs
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