IPL 2025, DC vs RR: Capitals have the last laugh in Super Over finish – The Hindu

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April 16, 2025e-Paper
Published – April 17, 2025 12:06 am IST – New Delhi
Delhi Capitals batsman Tristan Stubbs and K.L. Rahul after winning the match in the super overt against Rajasthan Royals during the IPL T20 Match at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in New Delhi on April 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy
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 get under it.
Before that, Nitish Rana and Jaiswal had impressed with half-centuries. Rana took the lead 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 by 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 from overs 16-20.
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.
Published – April 17, 2025 12:06 am IST
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