Delhi Capitals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 10th match of IPL 2025. Captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. Hyderabad's top order failed miserably. From the openers to the batsmen who came to bat at number 3 and 4, none of them could do anything special. In such a situation, Aniket Verma took charge.
McGurk took an incredible catch. Image-X
Sports Desk, New Delhi. In the 10th match of Indian Premier League 2025 today, Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss against Delhi Capitals and chose to bat first. Hyderabad's top order did not perform as expected. Hyderabad had a bad start. From the opener to the batsmen who came to bat at number 3 and 4, all failed. In such a situation, Aniket Verma of Jhansi took charge.
First he handled the innings along with Heinrich Klassen. Then he started firing in the air. Aniket scored a fifty in 34 balls. He was slowly moving towards his century and it seemed that Aniket would score the first century of his IPL career today. However, Delhi's young Jack Fraser McGurk dashed Aniket's hopes. Aniket, who was dealing in the boundary, was caught brilliantly by McGurk on the boundary.
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An excellent catch from Jake Fraser-McGurk at the ropes brings an end to Aniket Verma's fighting knock! 💙
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Aniket pulled Kuldeep Yadav's ball over mid-wicket. McGurk ran to his right and took the catch with both hands with a great jump. After this, when he fell down, he also made sure that he did not touch the boundary rope. Everyone was stunned to see this great catch. Aniket batted at a strike rate of 180.49 and scored 74 runs in 41 overs. In this innings, he hit 5 fours as well as 6 sixes.
Talking about the match, Hyderabad team was all out at 163 runs in 18.4 overs. The team had a bad start and Abhishek Sharma was run out at a score of 1. Ishan Kishan could also score only 2 runs. Nitish Reddy could not even open his account. Travis Head (22) was caught out in the 5th over. Heinrich Klassen and Aniket Verma had a partnership of 77 runs. Klassen scored 32 runs in 19 balls. Aniket scored 74 runs. Mitchell Starc took 5 wickets while Kuldeep Yadav got 3 wickets
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