The performance of Delhi Capitals under the leadership of Akshar Patel in the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) has appeared great. The team has strengthened its position by winning the first four consecutive matches. At the same time, Delhi played their fifth match of the season against Mumbai Indians (DC Vs Mi) on Sunday, in which they faced a crushing defeat. In such a situation, let us know what the captain Akshar Patel has to say on the defeat of the team?
The performance of Delhi Capitals against Mumbai Indians was nothing special. After the bowlers, the batsmen failed to spread their fire, due to which the team had to face 12 runs. This is Delhi's first defeat in IPL 2025, which made Captain Akshar Patel very disappointed. Talking about this during the post match, he said that,
"We had won the match. I think some of our bad shots and easy outskings were out of the middle order. We lost by 12 runs with one over remaining, yet we could win. It may not happen that your lower order batsmen should always save you by chasing the target."
Akshar Patel, while further, said that if Tilak Verma's catch had not dropped from Triston Stabs and Jack Fraser McGark, then the score of Mumbai Indians would have been lower. Apart from this, he believes that due to poor shot selection of KL Rahul in the middle order, it became difficult for the team to score runs. Akshar Patel said,
"There are some days when you play wrong shots, so I don't think there is no meaning to think too much about it. I felt that the target of 205 runs was good because it was a good pitch and dew was also coming. Perhaps if we had caught better catch, we could stop them at a low score."
Delhi Capital Captain Akshar Patel praised Kuldeep Yadav and said that,
I get confidence by bowling my three spinners. Two of the three can also bowl in powerplay. Kuldeep is bowling incredible this season. Whenever I need a wicket, I can go to them. I think a lot of positive things have happened today, we should just forget this match.
