New Delhi : Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abishek Porel slammed fifties in contrasting manner, while Tristan Stubbs used finishing touches to the innings with a 20-ball 41 as the trio’s endeavours propelled Delhi Capitals to reach 221/8 in 20 overs against Rajasthan Royals in Match 56 in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in this article on Tuesday.
Although Fraser-McGurk enthralled all people with a 19-ball fifty, Porel identified boundaries constantly to hit a 36-ball 65. It is just the eighth time that the DC openers acquired fifties in an IPL match. Also, this instance transpired in New Delhi for the very first time given that 2015 -– when Mayank Agarwal and Shreyas Iyer strike fifties as openers.
Regardless of a slowdown in the center overs, Stubbs slammed three fours and as numerous sixes in his 41 off 20 balls to guarantee the 200 mark was breached in the 1st innings of an IPL 2024 game listed here for the fourth consecutive time. DC will hope 221 is adequate to get two details as they find to hold them selves in contention for a playoff location.
For RR, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was the pick of bowlers with his 3-24. Trent Boult began by testing Fraser-McGurk from close to the wicket angle and was even hit on the box as soon as. But Fraser-McGurk ended the opening in excess of by chipping a size ball over mid-off for 6.
After Porel lofted and punched down the ground off Sandeep Sharma for a brace of fours, Fraser-McGurk introduced out a lofted straight drive, slash and mishit to just take a 6 and two fours off Boult in the 3rd over.
Fraser-McGurk’s takedown of Avesh commenced in the fourth around when he received going soon after acquiring a four off an within edge. Being leg-side of the ball, he hammered, sliced, lofted, drove, and hit by way of the line with relieve twice to get his fifty in 19 balls by hammering 28 operates in the in excess of.
His enjoyment was finished by Ashwin, as he smacked a entire toss straight to protect, adopted by Shai Hope’s run-out because of to Sandeep finding a deflection on the ball heading to the non-striker’s close. Abishek dazzled with his leg-aspect boundaries and obtained his very first fifty of the year with a pulled 6 off Avesh in the 11th in excess of.
But RR bounced back as Axar Patel holed out to extended-off versus Ashwin, adopted by Porel slicing to backward point towards the off-spinner. Just after Rishabh Pant’s misbalanced slog-sweep was caught by a deep backward sq. leg off Boult, DC seemed in risk of falling small of 200.
Stubbs and Gulbadin Naib experienced other ideas up their sleeves – to get a flourishing complete for DC. Naib smoked Chahal two times about very long-on for six and four respectively, Stubbs brought out reverse-sweep, and paddle sweep for back again-to-back again boundaries and completed the 21-run more than with a massive slog sweep around deep backward sq. for six.
However Naib was outclassed by a slower ball from Boult, Impression Substitute Rasikh Salam obtained consecutive fours on back-to-again scoops to just take DC past 200. Stubbs smacked Sandeep for back-to-back again sixes in the last around, ahead of the pacer trapped the batter lbw with a pinpoint yorker, followed by Kuldeep Yadav’s operate-out on the past ball of the innings as DC went past 220.
Temporary scores:
Delhi Capitals 221/8 in 20 overs (Abishek Porel 65, Jake Fraser-McGurk 50 Ravichandran Ashwin 3-24) from Rajasthan Royals