Watch cricket video highlights between Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals. Indian Premier League 2024 thirty fifth match, played at Delhi.
If it had happened the previous season, 266 for 7 would have been the highest IPL total ever, but on Saturday night in Delhi, it felt almost anticlimactic. This season, Sunrisers Hyderabad have shifted the window of batting opportunities just that far. Although it was the fourth-highest total in IPL history, Sunrisers’ tally in IPL 2024 was just the third-highest. There was a moment when it seemed like they could have done so much more, and 300 was really likely.
With Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma scoring an incredible six-over total of 125 for no loss, the Sunrisers had achieved something in a T20 powerplay that no side in any league had ever achieved before. With the field limitations loosened, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel helped to return Sunrisers’ innings to earth, but that breathtaking start will always be remembered as the pivotal moment of the game.
Delhi Capitals started their response quickly, reaching the second-highest powerplay total of the 2024 Indian Premier League, although with just an 88 for 2. Although Jake Fraser-McGurk reached the fastest half-century of the season by surpassing Head’s 16-ball score by one ball, the match was all but lost when he was dismissed in the seventh over. When the Sunrisers started their chase, the Capitals had hinted that they would run them close, but they collapsed miserably in the second half of the innings due to some outstanding defensive bowling from T Natarajan. They were ultimately bowled out for a symbolic 199, with Rishabh Pant being the last man out after failing to find the middle of the bat for 44 off 35 balls.
The match’s first over, which ended up scoring the fewest runs during Sunrisers’ powerplay, went for 19. At the six-over stage, Head was batting on 84 off 26 balls, and his opening partner, Abhishek, was scoring far more quickly than he was, with 40 off 10 at that time. The striking was a ceaseless haze that didn’t appear to be stopped by any line, length, or bowling technique. The surface at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, where the season was being played, was so true, and the two openers were so determined to knock every ball to the boundary. The Capitals might have given themselves a sarcastic pat on the back for bowling no wides or no-balls in the 36 balls they bowled during the powerplay; 13 went for four and 11 for six.
In addition, Abhishek scored six runs off the game’s first non-powerplay ball when he stepped out to Kuldeep and completed his shot even though it did not reach the ball’s pitch. This had again occurred in the fifth over, off the same bowler, and it appeared to confirm to the bowlers for the Capitals that they were in serious trouble. Axar, diving, intercepted an uppish drive at cover, but occasionally a wicket may appear out of nowhere, particularly if the batsmen are going for everything. This was the case from the following ball.
Prior to Heinrich Klaasen, who is better known for being a spin hitter, Aiden Markram was ranked third. He fell in the same over after smashing a shortish, wide ball from Kuldeep straight to cover. However, occasionally even a regular wristspinner ball may exhibit peculiar behavior, such as remaining in the pitch a little longer or bouncing a little bit more than anticipated. After Klaasen hammered him for two sixes, Kuldeep’s worth was highlighted once more in his subsequent over when Head was unable to get hold of a ball that was just too short to pull. Although he had comfortably dismissed that length in the powerplay, a guy was back at long-on and had gone out for 89 off 32. Although Klaasen is an expert at pulling distances that aren’t quite pullable against the spinners, on that particular day, he was bowled by an Axar skidder that beat his inside edge. In 9.1 overs, Sunrisers scored an incredible 154 for 4.
Because of the number of runs they had already scored and the amount of time left in their innings, Sunrisers’ fifth-wicket combination could afford to bat somewhat conservatively and ensure that their specialist death-overs hitter, Abdul Samad, wouldn’t be called upon too soon. This was accomplished by Shahbaz Ahmed and Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored 67 off 47 balls. At the end, Shahbaz found his rhythm, hitting two sixes off Khaleel Ahmed in the 19th over and two fours and a six off Mukesh Kumar in the 20th to end on 59 off 29 balls without losing. The Bengal all-rounder’s IPL fifty came at that time.
In a duel of Impact Players, Prithvi Shaw smacked Washington Sundar for 4, 4, 4, 4 off the first four balls of the chase. Then Washington exacted retribution, looping up a delivery with plenty of overspin – a ball that is seldom seen in Twenty20 cricket, but one that is bowled today in an attempt to stop the run flow and force him to mishit a lofted hit out of desperation to somehow prise out a wicket.
The tone for the Capitals’ powerplay was established by the first over. They also lost David Warner early on, but Fraser-McGurk knows no other way, so they persevered fiercely because they had to. On the day, his unrestricted, smooth golf swing was in perfect rhythm, and Washington, tasked with bowling two powerplay overs, was dealt a brutal 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 in the third over. After that, in a 20-run fifth over, Abishek Porel cut Pat Cummins through and over the off side with impunity, and the Capitals were somehow managing to stay in the game.
Even though Fraser-McGurk mishit an over in the seventh over against Mayank Markande, the Capitals’ chances of winning continued to increase when Porel struck three fours and a six off Shahbaz in the next over. Considering the goal they were chasing, ESPNcricinfo’s forecaster gave them an astounding 21.23% probability of winning at that time. But that was pretty much it, as their run-scoring came to an end when Porel was stumped in the ninth over by Markande, who performed similarly to Kuldeep in that he conceded runs but also created just enough false shots with his wristspin.
The Capitals failed to make any headway due in part to the day’s struggles for fluency experienced by Pant and Tristan Stubbs, as well as the excellent bowling of Natarajan, Cummins, and Reddy, who all varied their pace nicely while bowling into the pitch. They managed just 68 runs in 67 balls from the beginning of the ninth over to the completion of their innings. When Natarajan finished with stats of 4 for 19 after taking three wickets in the 19th over, the match was long over as a game.
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