Facing a must-win situation, Delhi Capitals defeated defending champions Gujarat Titans by five runs in a low-scoring IPL 2023 thriller in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. After scoring only 130/8 in 20 overs, DC’s chances were looking bleak, however, they managed to limit hardik pandyaTook GT to just 125/6 in 20 overs. It was the third win of the season for Delhi, who remain at the bottom of the table, while Gujarat remain at the top. GT has 12 points from nine matches while DC has six points from nine matches.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf Du Plessis Continues to lead the list of top run-getters with a tally of 466 in nine matches. GT’s Mohammed Shami and Chennai Super Kings Tushar Deshpande Leading the list of highest wicket takers with 17 wickets.
Talking about the game, Aman Khan’s maiden T20 half-century was complemented beautifully by the pacers as Delhi Capitals kept their playoff hopes alive with a five-run win over Gujarat Titans. Bowling impeccable lengths, Mohammed Shami (4/11 in four overs) was lethal with the new ball as he took the wind out of the Capitals’ top-order as Gujarat Titans reduced DC to 130 for eight after being asked to bowl slap down.
Aman (51 off 44) put up a lonely fight putting some much-needed runs on the board. He added 50 runs in 54 balls Akshar Patel (27) and scored 53 runs in 27 balls Ripple Patel (23).
In reply, Hardik Pandya (59 off 53) hit a half-century and Rahul Tewatia‘(20) The hat-trick of sixes was not enough as the Delhi bowlers held their nerves to restrict the defending champions to 125 for 6.
It was the third win of the season for Delhi, who remain at the bottom of the table, while Gujarat remain at the top.
Defending a modest target, the Delhi pacers were able to make early breakthroughs as Gujarat lost three wickets inside the powerplay.
If ‘Impact Player’ khalil ahmed (2/24) bowled a beautiful first over that was a wicket-maiden, pace spearhead Enrique Nortje (1/39) Get rid of dangerous Shubman Gill (6).
experienced fast bowler Ishant Sharma (2/23) also joined the party as he got out Vijay Shankar (6) With fully executed knuckle ball.
Wickets kept falling with the advent of slow bowlers, left-arm wrist spinners Kuldeep Yadav (1/15) Flute david miller (0) in the seventh over.
Pandya and Abhinav Manohar (26) handled Gujarat’s innings by sharing a 62-run partnership for the fifth wicket.
Pandya anchored the innings and Tewatia hit three consecutive sixes in the final over. But with 12 runs needed in the final over, Ishant conceded just six runs, taking the crucial wicket of Tewatia. Earlier, Delhi once again suffered a dramatic collapse, losing five wickets for 23 runs in five overs with Shami at the centre.
The experienced Indian fast bowler set the course of the match by dismissing Phil Salt for a golden duck on the very first ball of the game.
Terrible mix between youth priyam garg (10) And the captain david warner (2) Delhi had to lose the wicket of Australian in the second over.
Riley Rossouw (8) Was about to depart as Shami struck once again. The seasoned Indian prompted a short lead from Rossouw. Taking an outside edge, the ball fell straight into the hands of the wicket-keeper. Wriddhiman SahaDelhi’s score became 16 runs for three wickets.
With Shami’s initial tight bowling, skipper Hardik Pandya decided to continue bowling to the fast bowler and the move paid dividends. Shami continued his wicket-taking spree in his third over, scalping two wickets in his final over.
The Indian bowled a faltering seam delivery, attractive Manish Pandey (1) To drive it but late movement meant the ball found the edge of the bat and Saha, diving to his right, took a brilliant one-handed catch.
Shami’s final victim of the night was Garg with Saha again completing another catch behind the stumps.
With half in the dugout, the Capitals, who are at the bottom of the points table and need to win this game to stay alive in the playoff race, were staggering at 28/5 at the end of the powerplay.
Akshar Patel (27), who was promoted up the order, and Aman stopped the rot with some much-needed runs but pacer Mohit Sharma (2/33) broke the 50-run partnership as he dismissed Delhi’s sub-par. Shook the wicket. Captain.
In the 16th over, Aman hit Mohit Sharma for a four at short third and hit a flat six over fine leg to bring DC closer to 100 runs.
Uncapped Aman completed his half-century in 41 balls.
His innings was studded with three hits on the fence and the same number of overs.
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