In another thriller played by these two teams, Delhi Capitals managed to defeat Gujarat Titans by four runs in the 40th match of IPL 2024 held at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, in New Delhi.
Asked to bat first, the Capitals started the innings with a bang, the openers gave a blistering start but went early, and Axar Patel who was promoted to No. 3 scored 66(43) and played a magnificent innings, scoring his highest in IPL which helped the Capitals to post a huge total on the board.
Rishabh Pant 88*(43) who smashed from the first ball played a stupendously outstanding innings and in the end, Tristan Stubbs 26*(7) played a fantastic finishing innings which Capitals to post a huge total of 224.
Speaking about the bowling of the Titans, Sandeep Warrier (3-0-15-3) bowled beautifully, but the skipper didn’t use him properly as he even didn’t complete his quota of full overs.
It was poor captaincy from Gill. Azmatullah Omarzai who was economical bowled well in the powerplay but he didn’t take any wickets. The Titans didn’t get support from any other bowlers.
In response, Titans started the innings as Sai Sudharsan 65(39) played a magnificent innings which kept the Titans in the game. David Miller 55(23) played fantastic innings but the Titans lost him at the wrong time. In the end, Rashid Khan 21*(11) played superb finishing innings which kept Titans alive in the game till the final ball of the match but the Capitals held their nerve in the end and managed to win the game.
Speaking about the bowling of the Capitals, Kuldeep Yadav (4-0-29-2) bowled beautifully in the high-scoring match. His spin partner Axar (3-0-28-1) who bowled superbly gave excellent support to Kuldeep.
Here are all the stats and milestones from this game –
64 – Shubman Gill became the sixty-fourth player to play 100 matches in IPL.
65 – Axar Patel became the sixty-fifth player to score 1500 runs in IPL.
21 – Rishabh Pant became the twenty-first player to score 150 sixes in IPL.
2 – Shubman Gill became the second youngest and youngest Indian player to play 100 matches in IPL (24 Years 229 Days).
1 – Mohit Sharma conceded the most runs in a spell in a match in IPL. (4-0-73-0).
2 – Delhi Capitals scored the second most runs in the last five overs of an innings in IPL (97 Runs).
1 – Mohit Sharma conceded the most runs in the 16-20 over phase by a bowler in IPL history (61 Runs).
3 – Delhi Capitals scored their third-highest score in the IPL (224/4).
3 – Rishabh Pant scored the joint third most runs by players in the 20th over of an IPL match (30 Runs).
3 – Gujarat Titans scored the fifth most runs in the last four overs of an IPL run-chase (68 Runs).
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