DC vs RR, IPL 2025: Mitchell Starc heroics seal Super Over win for Delhi Capitals – Sportstar

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Published : Apr 16, 2025 23:21 IST , NEW DELHI – 2 MINS READ
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Delhi Capitals bowler Mitchell Starc runs out Yashasvi Jaiswal during the Super Over. | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY/The Hindu
On a drama-filled evening at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Capitals prevailed over Rajasthan Royals in a Super Over to notch up its fifth win in six matches in the IPL’s 18th edition.
In the Super Over, Royals batted first and made 11 off Mitchell Starc’s five deliveries while losing Riyan Parag and Yashasvi Jaiswal to run outs. Capitals got the job done when Tristan Stubbs pulled Sandeep Sharma for six off the fourth delivery.
That the match reached a frenetic tie-breaker was down to both teams making 188 in the allotted 20 overs.
With RR needing two runs off the last ball in a chase of 189, Dhruv Jurel flicked Starc’s full delivery to Axar Patel at deep midwicket. But having timed his shot too well, he was run out trying to get back for the second run. Starc was brilliant right through the 20th over, landing the ball near the blockhole and making it difficult for Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer to score a boundary.
Before that, Nitish Rana and Jaiswal had impressed with half-centuries. Rana took the charge after Jaiswal’s dismissal by Kuldeep Yadav. At the start of the 15th over, bowled by Axar, Royals needed another 73 runs from 36 balls.
Rana made the most of the match-up by hitting the left-arm spinner for two fours and a six. In the next over, Rana dispatched a long hop from Kuldeep over deep midwicket for six. It took a searing yorker from Starc to trap Rana leg-before.
Jaiswal began the chase by dictating terms against Starc. In the Australian’s second over, 19 runs were added to RR’s total as Jaiswal cut, pulled and slogged across the line with disdain.
For Capitals to reach 188 for five, Axar and Stubbs produced a few lusty blows in the final five overs. On a deck where hitting through the line didn’t seem all that easy in the initial stages, Abishek Porel and K.L. Rahul took 57 balls to put together 63 runs for the third wicket.
The spark came from the lower middle-order, helping the host add 77 runs in the last five overs. The final over by Sandeep went for 19 runs, with the medium-pacer’s four wides and a no-ball resulting in the over spanning 11 deliveries.
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Delhi Capitals /
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Mitchell Starc /
Yashasvi Jaiswal /
Tristan Stubbs /
Sandeep Sharma /
Riyan Parag
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