Dc vs lsg: Delhi Capitals started their journey in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League with a win. On Monday, in the match played with Lucknow Super Giants, Akshar Patel -led team waved the victorious glory by performing a bang. LSG, who came out to bat first, set a target of 210 runs in 20 overs. In response, the Delhi team scored 211 runs in 19.3 overs, which led to his hand by one wicket in the match (DC Vs LSG).
The fourth match of IPL 2025 (IPL 2025) between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants, Dr. Y.S. of Visakhapatnam. Rajasekhar Reddy was played at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. After winning the toss, Akshar Patel selected bowling, after which LSG batted first and hit 209 runs on the scoreboard at the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Puran batted in a faster starting after the wicket of Edan Markram (15) fell. Creating a strike rate of 200, the two batsmen partnered 87 runs in just 42 balls.
Mitchell Marsh, facing 36 balls, scored 72 runs thanks to six fours and six sixes. While Nicholas Puran's bat scored 75 runs in 30 balls, including six fours and seven sixes. After watching the form of both the batsmen, there were speculations that Lucknow Super Giants would score around 250 runs. But after Mitchell Marsh was dismissed in 11.4 overs, the team's wicket fell and on seeing it, Lucknow lost eight wickets on the score of 194.
Mitchell Marsh and Kuldeep Yadav put pressure on Lucknow Super Giants with their brilliant bowling and made a return to Delhi Capitals. Both these bowlers took three and two wickets. Nicholas Puran, Shabaz Ahmed and Ravi Bishnoi took the wicket to Mitchell Marsh. While Kuldeep Yadav took the wickets of Rishabh Pant and Ayush Badoni. Vipraj Nigam and Mukesh Kumar were able to take one wicket each. During the innings of Delhi, Rishabh Pant, Ravi Bishnoi and Shardul Thakur returned to Pavelian without opening an account. Ayush Badoni scored 4 runs and Shabaz Ahmed scored 9 runs.
The introduction of Delhi Capitals to achieve the set target was not good at all. Even before the powerplay was over, the team lost three wickets at the loss of seven wickets. After losing the wicket of dangerous batsman Jake Fraser-Macagark in the first over, LSG kept his grip on the match by taking wickets in regular intervals. He was able to score only one run in two balls. While Abhishek Porel Duck was out. Sameer Rizvi also scored four runs. After the three were dismissed, Faf du Plessis took the innings with Akshar Patel and shared a 43 -run partnership.
In 5.3 overs, Digvesh Rathi dismissed Akshar Patel and gave a big blow to Delhi Capitals. He scored 22 runs in 11 balls by batting at a strike rate of 200 and tried to take the team to the threshold of victory. Faf du Plessis scored 29 runs and Triston Stabus scored 34 runs. In the end, Vipraj Nigam played a stormy innings of 39 runs in 15 balls. After this wicket fell, Ashutosh Sharma took over the innings and wrote an unbeaten innings of 66 runs to Delhi.
Rishabh Pant's mistake: When Delhi Capitals needed six runs to win in the final over, then captain Rishabh Pant sent Shahbaz Ahmed to bowl. However, during this time, LSG had to face defeat due to one of his mistakes. In fact, On the first ball of the 20th over, he left Mohit Sharma's stump, after which he gave a strike to Ashutosh Sharma by collecting a single run and finished the winning Six root match in the third ball.
