Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by 9 runs. With this, Hyderabad took revenge for the previous loss in this season. The Delhi team had a target of 198 runs. At one point, Delhi was moving very fast towards the goal, but with the return of Philip Salt and Mitchell Marsh to the pavilion, Hyderabad completely turned the game in their favor. Mayank Markande took 2 wickets in bowling for Hyderabad.
Chasing Sunrisers Hyderabad’s 198-run target, Delhi Capitals got off to a poor start. Captain David Warner was bowled on the second ball of this match without opening the account. Following this, Mitchell Marsh, who came onto the field to support Phil Salt, began the process of scoring runs aggressively. After which, both players together took the team’s score to 57 runs with 1 wicket lost at the end of 6 overs.
After the end of the first 6 overs, Phil Salt and Mitchell Marsh continued to bat aggressively. Together, after the 10-over finish, the team’s score reached 105 runs, in which Phil also completed the first half-century of his IPL career. Between the two, there was an excellent partnership of 112 runs off 66 balls for the second wicket.
Delhi Capitals got the second blow with a score of 112 from Phil Salt, who was sacked after playing an excellent innings of 59 runs on 35 balls. From here Sunrisers Hyderabad had a chance to return to the match and they turned it completely in their favor by getting the wickets of Manish Pandey at 115 and Mitchell Marsh at his 125. Mitchell Marsh scored an innings of 63 runs off 39 balls in this game.
Due to the loss of 3 important wickets in quick succession, the Delhi Capitals innings were under full pressure. From here, the pressure to increase run rate was clearly visible on the Delhi batsmen. With a score of 148, Delhi had lost all 6 of their wickets. After this the team could only reach a score of 188 for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In the Hyderabad bowling, Mayank Markande netted 2 while Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Akil Hussain, T Natarajan and Abhishek Sharma netted 1-1 wickets.
In this match, if we talk about the innings of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, the 22-year-old left-handed young player Abhishek Sharma and the batsman Heinrich Klaasen had the best performance. In this match, where Abhishek played an excellent innings of 67 runs off 36 balls. At the same time, Heinrich Klassen played an unbeaten innings of 53 runs off 27 balls to end the team’s innings in the best of fashion. Mitchell Marsh took the maximum 4 wickets in this Delhi match.