SRH vs DC Highlights: All-round Axar Patel fingers Delhi Capitals second win, Sunrisers Hyderabad lose three on the trot | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Axar Patel‘s all-round heroics trumped Washington Sundar very good efforts with bat and ball as Delhi Capitals edged Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 runs in a low-scoring last-over thriller in Hyderabad.
It was the primary time in 16 seasons of IPL, Delhi efficiently defended a primary innings whole underneath 150 as chasing a reasonable 145 for victory, Hyderabad may solely muster 137 for six of their 20 overs.
The win was Delhi’s second in a row after 5 straight losses whereas Hyderabad suffered their third defeat on the trot.

The off-spin allrounder Sundar (4-0-28-3) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4-0-11-2) uncovered the batting frailties of Delhi Capitals’ within the first half of the sport to limit them to 144/9 after David Warner opted to bat.

However an inexplicable batting strategy wherein SRH by no means seemed to dominate led to their downfall as they had been restricted to 137.

Having misplaced half of their aspect for 85 runs in 14.1 overs, SRH’s restoration was led by Heinrich Klaasen (31; 19b, 3×4, 1×6) and Sundar who got here up with 15-ball 24 not out (3x4s).
But it surely proved not sufficient as Anrich Nortje (4-0-33-2) dismissed his South African temmate, earlier than Mukesh Kumar bowled a terrific final over to defend 13 runs handy Delhi a slim but thrilling second consecutive win of the season.

Delhi, who started the season with a five-match dropping streak, nonetheless stayed on the backside of the desk with 4 factors.

Kolkata Knight Riders and SRH, who too have 4 factors, remained forward on web run-rate.
Harry Brook’s largely disappointing IPL debut season prolonged additional and Mayank Agarwal (49) didn’t benefit from two lifelines.
As It Occurred
Delhi Capitals step by step strengthened their grip on the sport by taking 4 wickets — Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi (15), Abhishek Sharma (5) and Aiden Markam (3) in fast succession within the center overs, and permitting a mere three fours between overs 5 to fifteen which highlighted SRH’s plight.
Agarwal bought an early lifeline when Mitchell Marsh couldn’t maintain onto a tricky likelihood on his proper, at first slip off Ishant Sharma within the opening over.
The precise-hander bought a second lifeline on 47 when a flick shot off Marsh landed near Mukesh at quick wonderful leg, however he quickly ran out of luck.
Axar Patel deceived the batter in flight, solely to hit it straight to Aman Khan within the twelfth over.
Agarwal made 49 from 39 balls with seven fours, including 31 and 38 runs with Brook and Tripathi, for the primary and second wickets respectively, however by no means seemed on high of the proceedings.
The dismissal of Agarwal had Delhi’s tails up within the twelfth over, and their impression substitute Ishant dealt a extreme blow getting SRH’s impression participant Tripathi caught behind for a 21-ball 15.
SRH’s slide continued with Abhishek (5) hitting one straight again to Kuldeep Yadav within the 14th over and within the subsequent, Axar had Markram chopping one on to depart the house aspect reeling at 86/5.
With 51 wanted from final 4 overs, Klaasen and Sundar revived SRH with a 26-ball 41-run stand for the sixth wicket, however their effort got here too late.
Earlier, Sundar ended his six-match wicketless run to take three wickets in 5 balls to interrupt the again of Delhi Capitals’ batting line-up after they opted to bat.
Then Bhuvneswhar got here up with a parsimonious spell of 4-0-11-2, which included the important thing wickets of Phil Salt (0) and Axar (34) to rattle Delhi additional.
Delhi Capitals slipped from 57 for two to 62 for five after the powerplay, and had their backs firmly pressed towards the wall.
Patel (34) and Manish Pandey (34) saved some blushes for Delhi, who remained on the backside of the factors desk.
The pair did effectively so as to add 69 runs for the sixth wicket taking Delhi Capitals previous the 100-run mark and prevented a complete collapse.
Patel hit a run-a-ball 34 with 4 hits to the fence whereas Pandey was run out following a superb throw from deep midwicket by Sundar quickly after, for a 27-ball 34 (2x4s).
The tone was set earlier by Bhuvaneshwar who struck on the third supply to get Phil Salt caught behind by Klaasen and stored David Warner silent for almost all of his opening spell.
The Delhi captain, who broke the shackles to get a 4 and a six off Sundar within the fourth over, perished proper after the powerplay with the spin bowling all-rounder operating by way of the middle-order within the eighth over.
Warner, who perished for a 20-ball 21, was caught at deep sq. leg by Brook on the second ball whereas making an attempt to brush.
Delhi sunk additional as comeback batter Sarfaraz Khan (10) was the following to fall to the sweep shot, on the fourth supply from Sundar, caught by Bhuvneshwar at deep backward sq. leg.
Aman struck a first-ball 4 however bought a high edge off Sundar on the ultimate supply.

DC’s No 3 Marsh started with 4 boundaries off Marco Jansen within the second over, which bought them 19 runs however he was deceived by a slower supply from T Natarajan, who had the batter trapped leg-before for a 15-ball 25 (4x4s).
(With inputs from PTI)
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