Left-Arm Pacer Michel Starc gave a sensational mantra of 5-35, while Vice-Captain FAF Do Plessis rapidly broke the half-century off 27 balls, as Delhi’s capitals. YS Rajashekhara Reddy registered a seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad at ACA-VDCA Cricket. Jeet keeps DC unbeaten IPL 2025,
On the surface offering some grip, Stark’s three wickets in the powerplay pushed SRH to the back leg. He later returned to clean the tail, claiming his first five wicket race in T20 cricket. His variation in speed to eliminate SRH’s batting lineup proved to be an important factor. Kuldeep Yadav (3-22) and Mohit Sharma (1-25) provided concrete support, ensuring DC dominance.
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For SRH, uncapormed batsman Anicate Verma The loan was bright spot, producing a stunning 74 off 41 balls. He shared a significant 77 -run partnership off just 40 balls with Heinrich Klassen (32), but failed to capitalize the rest of the batting order, once again struggling to put a competitive total.
In response, Du Plessis performed his class with a fluent fifty, with three fours and three sixes at a strike rate of 185.19. He was well considered by Jake Fraser-Makegur (38), KL Rahul (15), Abishek Porl (34*), and Triston Stabs (21*), as DC easily chased the target, wrapping the match with four overs. For SRH, debut leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari affected 3-42 figures.
To bat first, SRH left for an unstable start, when Travis Head discovered the border twice from Stark in the opening over. In a mix-up, Abhishek Sharma ran away for just one, and from there, the collapse began. Stark rejected Ishan Kishan (caught in Deep Third Man), local boy Nitish Kumar Reddy (caught in the middle), and head (caught behind a stear for the third man), reduces SRH in an indefinite position.
When he was demolished from Exer Patel’s bowling, Verma found a rapist, and Klassen injects some speed with an aggressive strokeplay, broke Stark and Exer for borders to eliminate the powerplay on a high high.
Verma continued his retrograde, slog-sweeping Vipraz Nigam for six and hammer exerred for continuously maximum-on the feet of a deep square and another straight ground. He maintained a strong base, looted Mohit Sharma for four and sent Kulip for six.
However, a 77-run stand in the 11th over was broken, when Mohit was brilliantly caught by Klessen’s leg-side shot, which was sprinkled back from the backward point. SRH then lost Kuldeep to Abhinav Manohar and Pat Cummins cheaply. Verma, however, continued to reach her woman IPL fifty off 34 balls and clean the ropes easily.
His attack included more powerful shots-an in and out drive from exer to four, followed by two more sixes from the left-handed spinner. However, Kuldeep’s final was to say, as Fraser-Makegur carried out a completely time-bound jump on deep mid-wicket to send Verma back to a well-built 74. The staror then returned to polish from the tail, making sure SRH did not bat in its entire 20 overs.
Fraser-Mackgurk set up the tone quickly, slaogue-sweeping Abhishek Sharma for six, while du Plessis pulled Mohammed Shami for maximum. While the Fraser-Macgurk struggled over time and survived two dropped catchs, Du Plessis was in the Supreme Touch, searching the borders from Shami, Abhishek and Cummins-six to six straight from six to six standing out of Australian pacer.
Fraser-Mackgurk continued Du Plessis with Ansari’s oppressed drive for four before reaching fifty off just 26 balls. However, the leg-spinner gave his moment in the next over, as Do Plessis gave a long slogan, giving Ansari his first IPL wicket.
Handling the attack, Fraser-Mackgurk broke Ansari for two fours and pasted a bowler back to 38 from a six to 38. KL Rahul declared himself in DC colors with a streak limit with his first ball, followed by a royal slog-shop and a lied drive from Shami for six and four. But his promising start was reduced when he was bowled around his feet while trying a sweep from Ansari for 15.
Porl ensured that there is no hiccup, killing Abhishek for four and later broke Ansari in gradual delivery for a six and four. Stabs, Bhi, joined the party, looting Harshal Patel for a limit before pulling and running Vian Mulder for two more fours. From fitting, Porl sealed the win in style, club to the Mulder for a six, DC wrapped his Visakhapatnam Home leg with a strong win.
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