DC are now fifth in the points table after the win against SRH
IPL 2022, DC vs SRH: David Warner and Rovman Powell launched an absolute masterclass as Delhi Capitals thrashed Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs on Thursday.
Warner scored his highest score of the season with 12 fours and three sixes and scored 122 runs with Rovman Powell (67 not out off 35 balls) to take the Capitals to 207 for the fourth wicket. After being asked to bat for 3.
After this Capitals restricted Sunrisers to 186 runs for 8 wickets. Khaleel Ahmed (3/30) and Shardul Thakur (2/44) shared five wickets between them to secure their fifth win of the season.
Capitals jumped two places to fifth place with 10 points from 10 matches, while Sunrisers slipped a place to sixth place after a third straight loss. Warner was sacked from captaincy and dropped from Sunrisers’ playing XI last season under controversial circumstances.
Chasing a tough target of 208 runs, Sunrisers had a poor start and at the end of the seventh over, they were reduced to three runs for just 37 runs as Abhishek Sharma (7) and Rahul Tripathi (22) and also the captain. Kane Williamson (4) got out early. Despite some heroic efforts, they fall short in the end. Aiden Markram (42 off 25 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (62 off 34 balls).
Markram and Pooran added 60 runs in 5.5 overs to keep Sunrisers on the hunt. Pooran continued his attack after Markram was dismissed in the 13th over but the asking rate kept rising.
Sunrisers needed 74 runs in the last five overs but after getting out twice in the 18th over, Pooran got out once, so the match was as good as the over. Pooran hit two fours and six sixes during his heroic innings.
Earlier, Warner and Powell scored 70 runs in the last five overs, hammering and pliers against a hapless SRH attack. Warner hit his fourth half-century of the season, his season’s best and the Capitals’ highest individual score.
The aggressive Australian also taught a few lessons to pacer Umran Malik, who bowled the fastest delivery of the season at 157 kmph and handed the youngster a 32-run penalty in the first spell of two overs. Powell hit three fours and a six off Malik in the final over, scoring 19 runs.
It was a really bad day at the office for young Malek, who took a five-wicket haul against Gujarat Titans on April 27, as he conceded 52 runs without a wicket. Warner hit Malik for two fours and a six in the fourth over, scoring 21 runs as Capitals ended the powerplay at 50 for 2, with Warner contributing 31.
Mandeep Singh (0) dismissed Bhuvneshwar Kumar On the fifth ball of the innings, Mitchell Marsh was caught by Sean Abbott in the fifth over.
In the ninth over, skipper Rishabh Pant (26 off 16) got 23 runs and a wicket, who hit three consecutive sixes and a four off Gopal. However, Pant pulled the last ball of the over onto his stumps. The Capitals were drawn for a big total as they reached 91 for 3 at the halfway point.
Warner completed his fifty by hitting a boundary at 154.8 kmph in the first ball of the 12th over bowled by Malik, who is the third fastest bowler in IPL history.
Big-hitting Powell, who was dropped by Kane Williamson off Malik for 18, joined the party later, with Abbott hitting five sixes for two consecutive sixes in the 17th over, scoring 18 runs .