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Ashutosh Sharma in his debut for Delhi Capitals played a blistering unbeaten innings and with support from Vipraj Nigam helped Delhi Capitals stun Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket in sensational Tata IPl 2025 encounter. It was an edge of the seat thriller . DC bouncing back from 65/ 5 to win is really mind- blowing.
Earlier, Delhi Capitals Skipper Axar Patel won the toss and opted to bowl first on a good batting surface.
Lucknow Super Giants got off to a blazing start with their two explosive openers – Mitchell Marsh ( returning after injury as a batsman) and Aiden Markram. at the total of 46 in 4.4 overs , Aiden Markram was out for ( 15) . His opening partner though was in terrific form. Mitchell Marsh hit some power shots all around . It was brute power from big the Aussie who has battled many injuries in his career. Marsh blasted a scintillating 36 ball 72 ( 6 fours, 6 sixes).
The LSG onslaught was continued by Nicholas Pooran ( dropped on 17) he maid the DC bowlers pay with his range of power shots . Pooran like Mitchell Marsh was aggressive in his 75 ( 30 balls , 6 fours, 7 sixes) . LSG Skipper Rishabh Pant disappointed as he was out for 0. LSG suffered a mini batting collapse as they lost some quick wickets – Ayush Badoni ( 4), Shardul Thakur ( 0) , Shahbaz Ahmed ( 9), Ravi Bishnoi ( 0) .
David Miller was running out of partners . In the final over, Miller did connect some big maximums and remained not out on 27 ( 19 balls , 1 four , 2 sixes) . Digvesh Rathi was the other not out batsman with 0 . LSG which threatened 230- 240 at one stage ended up at 209/ 8 in their 20 overs.
Delhi Capitals Bowling : After rusty start Mitchell Starc found his range 3/ 43 ( 4 overs) Axar Patel was tight in his 0/ 18 ( 3 overs) spell , Vipraj Nigam 1/ 35 ( 2 overs) , Mukesh Kumar 1/ 22 ( 2 overs) , Kuldeep Yadav 2/ 20 ( 4 overs) on target as usual. Mohit Sharma 0/ 42( 4 overs) , Tristan Stubbs 0/ 28 ( 1 over)
In reply Delhi Capitals batting fell like pack of cards . Opener Jake Fraser-McGurk ( 1) , Abishek Porel ( 0) , Sameer Rizvi ( 4) Skipper Axar Patel ( 22) and Faf du Plessis ( 29) . Faf du Plessis was the fifth out at 65/ 5 in 6. 4 overs. In the DC top 5 only Axar and Faf reached double figures.
DC hopes rested on Tristan Stubbs and he showed intent to hit a big one but fell for 34 ( 22 balls , 1 four, 3 sixes) . Ashutosh Sharma gave Stubbs support from the other end.
DC were in the hunt despite loss of wickets thanks to the brave counter- attack by Ashutosh and Vipraj Nigam . The duo put on 55 in just 23 balls . Vipraj soon fell after strategic time- out for a blazing 39 ( 15 balls , 5 fours, 2 sixes) . Mitchell Starc fell for 2 .
Ashutosh Sharma unbeaten, slammed the winning six in his astonishing innings of 66 ( 31 balls, 5 fours, 5 sixes) and literally took the game away from LSG . . Delhi won by 1 wicket and three balls to spare. Delhi eventually reaching 211/ 9 in 19.3 overs.
LSG skipper Rishabh Pant looked shell -shocked after the loss. while the DC dug-out was ecstatic .
LSG Bowling : Shardul Thakur 2/ 19 ( 2 overs) , Manimaran Siddharth 2/ 39 ( 4 overs) , Digvesh Rathi 2/ 31 ( 4 overs) , Ravi Bishnoi 2/ 53 ( 4 overs) , Prince Yadav 0/ 47 ( 4 overs) , Shahbaz Ahmed 0/ 22 ( 1.3 overs)
Match: IPL 2025, 4th Match
Venue: Visakhapatnam | Date: March 24,
