DC vs GT IPL 2024: Rishabh Pant, Akshar Patel lead Delhi Capitals to thrilling win over Gujarat Titans

Delhi Capitals avoided a late scare to defeat Gujarat Titans by 4 runs in the 40th over. Intense Pulsed Light Wednesday 2024. Chasing a mammoth target of 225 runs, David Miller and Sai Sudharson put on a brilliant fifty, but fell short by three runs in a valiant chase. Arun Jaitley New Delhi Stadium.

Skipper Rishabh Pant scored 88 off 43 balls and Akshar scored 66 off 43 balls to help Delhi post the third highest score in the IPL. Miller and Sudarshan kept Gujarat alive in the big chase and then Rashid Khan almost completed a record-breaking chase but Delhi managed to save 19 runs in the last over.

With their fourth win of the season, Derry move up to sixth in the table, significantly boosting their hopes of qualifying for the play-offs. Gujarat slipped to seventh place after Shubman Gill’s fifth defeat of the season.

The match saw Delhi lose veteran David Warner as they suffered a heavy defeat, while Gujarat remained unchanged. Delhi opener Jack Fraser-McGurk was dismissed by Sandeep Warriar’s Prithvi Shaw in the bottom of the fourth innings.

The Warriors later canceled out the comeback to beat Delhi 44/3 in the She Hope Powerplay match. But the home team managed a comeback as Akshar and Rishabh put on 113 for the fourth wicket. The two left-handed batsmen first dominated the middle order with intelligent cricket and then struck brilliantly to put Delhi on course for a big-score victory.

Aksa scored 66 runs off 43 balls but Rishabh scored unbeaten 88 runs off 43 balls with the help of 5 fours and 8 sixes. The wicketkeeper-batsman smashed Mohit Sharma for 30 in the last over, taking Delhi’s winning percentage to 224/4 in 20 overs. Warrier took 3 wickets for 15 runs while Mohit posted the most expensive figures of 0/73 in IPL history.

Chasing a tough target, Gujarat lost batsman and captain Shubham Gill in the second over. However, the in-form Sai Sudharan and veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Bidhan Saha kept Gujarat alive with an 83-run second-wicket partnership.

Saha’s wicket in the tenth over by Kuldeep Yadav gave Delhi the breakthrough and then Gujarat struggled to find momentum. Young pacer Rasik Salam, playing his sixth IPL match, took three wickets to put Delhi in the driver’s seat but David Miller’s 21-ball fifty helped Gujarat come back in the closing stages.

Afghanistan star Rashid Khan chased Mukesh Kumar’s 19 off the last ball, hitting three boundaries but failed to do so and Gujarat needed 5 points to win a game off the last ball. Rishabh won the man of the match award for his explosive innings ahead of Akshar and Rasik.

Delhi Capitals Lineup: Prithvi Shaw (replaces Rasikh Salam), Jack Fraser-McGurk, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (midweek), Tristan Stubbs, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Enrich Nortje, Khalil Ahmedmukesh Kumar.

Gujarat Titans Line Up: Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Shubman Gill (c), David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Shah Rukh Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravishrinivasan Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmed, Mohit Sharma, Sandeep Warrier (replaced by Sai Sudharsan).