DC vs RR: Delhi Capitals clinch first victory at home by defeating Rajasthan Royals in the first Super Over match of the IPL 2025.
After winning the toss, Rajasthan’s skipper Sanju Samson decided to bowl first. Jake Fraser McGurk and Abishek Porel opened for the Delhi Capitals. Both looked in good touch and dealt in boundaries and sixes in the first 2 overs of the powerplay, but Jofra Archer didn’t let McGurk go long and picked up his wicket on the score of 9 runs. Karun Nair’s second match in the IPL 2025 didn’t go like the first one, as he got run out on a duck. KL Rahul and Abishek Porel partnered to take their team’s score to 97 runs. Contributions from skipper Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, and Tristan Stubbs helped Delhi Capitals post 188 runs on the board at the end of 20 overs.
Chasing 189 runs, Rajasthan Royals got the start they wanted as both Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson scored runs from both ends. In 6 overs, Rajasthan Royals scored 50+ runs, but in the sixth, while hitting a cut shot, skipper Sanju Samson hurt himself, eventually making him retire hurt. In the 9th over, Axar Patel got the first breakthrough for his team by dismissing Riyan Parag. Nitish Rana and Jaiswal partnered to close the chase gap. Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal on 51, but Nitish Rana made the chase easy for RR. The left-handed batter took his team to 161 runs.
Mitchell Starc dismissed Nitish Rana for 51 runs in the 18th over. From there, DC bowlers started putting pressure on RR, with 9 required in the last over. Starc showed his bowling prowess and defended it, taking the match to the super over, where he bowled, giving away just 11 runs.
KL Rahul and Tristan Stubbs took the responsibility of chasing 12 runs in 6 deliveries. Tristan Stubbs ended the game with a huge six over mid-wicket.
IPL 2025, Match 32nd, DC vs RR: Award Winners| POTM
Curvv Super Striker of the Match: Axar Patel(Delhi Capitals), Strike Rate-242.86
My11Circle Fantasy King of the Match: Axar Patel(Delhi Capitals)
Angel One Super Sixes of the Match: Yashasvi Jaiswal(RR)- 4 sixes
Rupay on the Go 4s: Nitish Rana(RR)–6 fours
TATA IPL Green Dot Balls of the Match: Jofra Archer(RR)- 10 dot balls
Player of the Match: Mitchell Starc(DC)- 1/36 in 4 Overs
IPL 2025, Match 32nd, DC vs RR: Captains’ Corner
All’s well that ends well. I think the kind of start we got, the way the powerplay went, I thought we could have batted quicker, but in the timeout KL and Porel said the wicket isn’t that easy. We got momentum from the 12th and 13th over and then we finished well and put on a good score. The wicket was a little sticky and new batters were not being able to score runs quickly. [After RR’s powerplay] When the opposition scores runs you start going towards the panic over, but we took the timeout and I said that this is when the game will start. It won’t be easy for them to hit boundaries so we need to keep our faith and try to get wickets. When set batters get out, a couple of wickets fall, new batters panic and think they need to get runs quickly and that’s what happened with them.
Axar Patel(Delhi Capitals’ Captain) said post-match
“It feels alright. I was just not ready to come back and bat here. We’ll observe it tomorrow and see how it is. I think we bowled really well. There were phases where they came hard at us. But I would like to give credit to all our bowlers and fielders. I thought that score was definitely chaseable but as we all saw it was a fantastic over from Starcy. I’d like to give it to Starcy, I think he won the game for them in the 20th over. [Super Over] The plan was to swing hard. You know he’s going to come hard at you so we had to go harder at him. [On Sandeep] I think he has been bowling the toughest overs for me for the last few years. I am very fortunate to have someone like him with me. The way Jofra backed him and everyone played around him… but in the end Starcy took it away from us.”
Sanju Samson(Rajasthan Royals’ Captain) said post-match
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