Delhi Capitals signed off their IPL 2025 season with a six-wicket win in opposition to the Punjab Kings on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday. With the loss, Shreyas Iyer and co are on the second rung of the factors desk with 17 factors. They’ll play the in-form Mumbai Indians on Monday in a sport that would decide their prime 2 possibilities. DC, who have been knocked out after the defeat in opposition to MI solely days in the past, completed their season with 15 factors.
Delhi Capitals’ Tristan Stubbs and Sameer Rizvi rejoice after the match(REUTERS)
On Saturday, it was Sameer Rizvi who steered the Capitals previous the 207-run goal with a blazing 58-run knock off 25 balls. The teenager was joined by Karun (44 in 27 balls) for a brisk partnership within the center.
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This is what occurred within the PBKS vs DC IPL match – full timeline Toss:
Delhi Capitals gained the toss and opted to bowl. Skipper Faf du Plessis introduced Sediqullah Atal’s debut whereas Axar Patel missed out.
Beginning XI: Faf du Plessis (c), Sediqullah Atal, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs (wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Kumar
Bench: KL Rahul, Manvanth Kumar L, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Darshan Nalkande, Abishek Porel, Madhav Tiwari, Dushmantha Chameera, Axar Patel, T Natarajan, Donovan Ferreira
The Punjab Kings, however, have been with out Yuzvendra Chahal.
Beginning XI: Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Josh Inglis (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh
Bench: Suryansh Shedge, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Xavier Bartlett, Kyle Jamieson, Praveen Dubey, Mitchell Owen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Musheer Khan, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Harnoor Singh, Pyla Avinash
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First innings: Marcus Stoinis and Shreyas Iyer come to the get together
Within the first innings, Stoinis blazed away to an unbeaten 16-ball 44 after skipper Shreyas Iyer laid the inspiration with 53-run knock off 34 deliveries. Stoinis struck 4 sixes and three fours throughout his blistering knock.
DC loved early success as Priyansh Arya (6) top-edged a Mustafizur Rahman (3/33) quick ball that cramped the batter for room and wicketkeeper Tristan Stubbs went few steps backwards to finish a neat catch after the ball went very excessive.
Josh Inglis picked up a few boundaries off Mukesh. Prabhsimran Singh punched one down the bottom off Mustafizur for a 4 earlier than giving the strike again to Inglis, who flicked the left-arm seamer for a most over deep backward sq..
Prabhsimran discovered two fours off Mohit Sharma earlier than Vipraj Nigam (2/38) closed out the powerplay with an eventful over through which he was welcomed with a six and a 4 by Inglis earlier than accounting for the Australian’s wicket because the batter was neatly stumped down the leg aspect by Stubbs after the younger leg-spinner bowled a googly.
Prabhsimran’s dismissal left PKBS at 77 for 3 within the ninth over however Iyer maintained tempo. Shashank Singh could not proceed his sizzling patch and was dismissed cheaply.
Second innings: Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair shine
Rizvi struck a high-quality, maiden half-century after Karun Nair marked his return to the Indian Take a look at group with an important knock. The Capitals have been in a position to chase down 207 runs with three balls to spare. Rizvi was unbeaten on 58. He struck 5 sixes and three fours.
Nair had earlier contributed 44 in 27 deliveries with two sixes and 5 fours.