spinners Akshar Patel And Kuldeep Yadav Was inspiring in the middle overs too Shardul Thakur Delhi Capitals complemented the duo with career-best IPL figures as they moved closer to play-off qualification after beating Punjab Kings by 17 runs in an IPL match on Monday. DC invited to bat, posted 159 for 7 wickets Michelle Marshaw63 off 48 balls and then restricted Punjab to 142 for 9. Thakur (4/36), Axar (2/14) and Kuldeep (2/14) shared eight wickets between them. Enrique Nortje got the important wicket of Jonny Bairstow, It is between overs 6-14 where Delhi won the game as Kuldeep and Axar conceded only 28 runs in seven overs overall, with four wickets between them.
With this win, DC have jumped one place to the fourth position with 14 points from 13 matches. Royal Challengers Bangalore (14 from 13 matches) have the same number of points as DC, but were pushed to the fifth spot as they have an NRR of -0.323 compared to Delhi’s +0.255.
Punjab, who remain at the seventh spot with 12 points from 13 matches, are almost out of the play-off spot as they also have a -0.043 net run rate.
Chasing 160 runs for a win, Punjab faced the bat after a good start. Jitesh Sharma (44 off 34 balls) and Rahul Chahar (25 not out off 24 balls) made a late comeback with a 41-run stand for the eighth wicket – the highest in their run chases – but it proved to be little.
Punjab started with good form Jonny Bairstow Khaleel Ahmed And Nortje scored 27 for no loss at the end of the third over with fours and sixes.
But from there the downfall began as five Punjab batsmen went hut after another as they were bundled out for 5 at the end of the eighth over.
Bairstow (28 off 15 balls) fell to Nortje in the fourth over before struggling Shardul Thakur took two wickets – Bhanuka Rajapaksa (4) and Shikhar Dhawan (19) – To change the color of the game in three balls in the sixth over.
Punjab were 54 for 3 at the end of the powerplay and three balls later Axar Patel took his 100th IPL wicket with a special wicket – that of the Punjab captain. Mayank AgarwalSkull .
Mayank (0), who was struggling this season, went for a cut on the arm ball, but it went through the gap between the bat and the pad and fell into the middle stump.
no relief for punjab Liam Livingstone Got out in the 8th over Rishabh Pant For the first wicket of Kuldeep.
Kuldeep returned to dismiss Harpreet Bar (1) for his second over, with him mistaking the batsman before running out of the gate to fall into the stumps.
By then it was all over for Punjab as they were reduced to 68 for 6 at the halfway point.
Punjab needed 39 runs in the last three overs but David Warner A good catch at long off to dismiss Jitesh. The game ended in DC’s favor.
Earlier, Arshdeep Singh and Livingstone took three wickets each as Punjab restricted Delhi to 159 for seven.
Marsh added 51 runs first Sarfaraz Khan (32) and then another 47 with Lalit Yadav (24), DC lost opener David Warner (0) off the first ball of the innings.
DC scored at a brisk pace after being asked to bat, but suffered a fall in the middle order, losing three early wickets.
It was Australian Marsh, who opened the DC innings. He completed his half-century by hitting a four in the 17th over. He hit four fours and three sixes but got out from the partners.
The opening bowling move with Livingstone (3/27) removed Warner, who sitter Rahul Chahar at backward point.
Marsh and Sarfaraz then tried to stabilize the ship. Marsh hit sixes one after the other off the pacer Kagiso Rabada (1/24), which includes a high shot as Delhi add 15 runs in the second over.
Sarfaraz was brutal on the conservative left arm bowler Harpreet Bara (0/29), hitting him a maximum, a slog sweep and two consecutive fours as Delhi posted 15 runs in the third over.
Sarfaraz hit five fours and a six as Delhi crossed the 50-run mark in the fifth over. But Sarfaraz’s cameo ended when he wrongly caught a high shot from Arshdeep Singh (3/37) in which Chahar took a running catch.
Then Marsh and Fine mixed caution and aggression. At 86/2 after 10 overs, the stage was set for the big score.
But Punjab quickly overtook DC, grabbing three wickets and reducing the opposition to 112/5.
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First Arshdeep used his slow bouncer to dismiss Lalit and then Livingstone sent back Rishabh Pant (7) who was stumped by Jitesh Sharma.
Livingstone took his third wicket when he removed rowman powell (2). Wickets kept falling for Delhi even as the Punjab bowlers conceded 43 runs in the last five overs.
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