De📖lhi Ca𓄧pitals (DC) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 16 runs in the 46th match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday. With this win, DC have climbed to the top of the points table for now. Mumbai Indians stand the chance of overtaking them to grab pole position if they win on Sunday as well.
However, DC have qualified for the playoffs with this win. For RCB, this defeat has ruled them o﷽ut of the tournament.
Chasing DC’s total of 187/5, Virat Kohli and Co. managed to score 171/7 as the Delhi boys recorded their eighth win to take their tally to 16 points from 12 games. RCB, meanwhile, suffered their eighth defeat of the season and remained at the bottom with 8 points from 12 games.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Brilliant from this season. Pontin💯g, Sourav and the Young Turks doing the trick. Congratulati🧔ons to them on making it to the playoffs in style
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
Kudos to young team for qual🅷ifying for playoffs. Credit to the team and for the turnaround
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Disappointing result for they need good Indian all rounder and top notch death bowler…
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Delhi Capitals. New name…new game. Finally….a good year in . ☺️🙌
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Yay ! Into the PlayOffs after 7 years.
What a happy feeling !
Great effortꦇ by the team😼 and amazing support from fans despite the heat at Kotla.— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Delhi Capitals reaching the play-offs in many 🎃ways is the story of the season so far. Young team, full of zest and learning with every match. I hope Prithvi and Rishabh rise to the occasion in the matches to comꦦe
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
With play-off qualification sealed and the sitting pretty at the top of the table, the players are all smiles for the 𒁏 🔥🙌
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
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— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals)
Congratulations to onℱ qualifying i🐼nto the Play-Offs.
We should've gotten closer, but some great bowling & and key breakthroughs in the middle overs by DC put the brakes on our chase. ☹️
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
Teams to lose 100 matches in the Twenty20 format:
112 – Middlesex
101 – Derbyshire
100 – ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Delhi qualify for the playoff♍s for the first time since 2012 season.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
DC beat RCB by 16 runs!
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Shikhar Dhawan is the Player of the Match.
Runs: 50
Balls: 37
Fours: 5
Sixes: 2— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz)
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8th position to RCB
— Romesh sachdev (@sarcasticroms)
DISGRACEFUL scenes at Feroz Shah Kotla.
Security forced RCB fans to stay and watch their team's death bowling.
— CricBlog ✍ (@cric_blog)
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