New Delhi [India]: After his team’s 20-run win over Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant praised his bowlers, especially Kuldeep Yadav for his brilliant performance in the death overs.
A Sanju Samson masterclass almost sealed the title for RR but the DC bowlers held on tight in the dying seconds to register their sixth win of the season at home to keep their playoff hopes alive.
After the match, Rishabh said: “The performance of our bowlers at the back was the main positive and that’s really pleasing. We try to learn from every game. Even if we lose or win, we Heads down as usual, Kuldeep’s performance was nice to see it was close to par and at the same time we were thinking if we could limit them to 200 then that would be fair and that was our thought process.”
After the game started, RR won the toss and chose to bowl first. Excellent performances from youngsters Jake Fraser McGurk and Abhishek Porel and a brilliant cameo from Tristan Stubbs helped DC post a record of 221/8 in 20 games.
Ravichandran Ashwin is the top bowler for RR.
In the run chase, although RR lost the first innings early, captain Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag and Shubham Dubey kept RR chasing but Sanju’s dismissal ended up changing the game and denying RR the victory.
Kuldeep, Mukesh Kumar and Khalil Ahmed took two wickets while Axar Patel and Rashid Darsalam took one each .
Kuldeep won the Man of the Match award with his performance of 2/25.
DC moved up to fifth place with 12 points from 6 wins and 6 losses. RR ranks second with 8 wins and 3 losses with 16 points.
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