On Saturday afternoon, Delhi Capitals (DC) thrashed Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to qualify for the playoffs in the ongoing season of🧔 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021.
Chasing 155 for victory, the Royals could only manage to score 121/6, losing the contest by 33 runs. Captain Sanju Samson was the top-scorer for Rajasthan. He scored 🌌70 runs from 53 ball𒀰s, including eight fours and a six.
DC pacer Anrich Nortje picked up two wickets for 18 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Avesh Khan (1/29), Ravichandran Ashwin (1/20), Kagiso Rabada (1/26), Axar Patel (1/27) bagged one scalp apiece.
Batting first, the Capitals lost both openers Shikhar Dhawan (8) and Prithvi Shaw (10) early, but their middle-order contributed pretty well and took the total to 154/6. Former DC skipper Shreyas Iyer top-scored with 43 off 32 balls.
Rishabh Pant and Shimron Hetmyer also shined with the bat making valuable contributions of🎶 24 and 28, respectively.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Another win for Delhi Capജitals and a very good one at that. Well played Rishabh and co 👏🏼 great stuff
— Chloe-Amanda Bailey (@ChloeAmandaB)
Second consecutive finals for
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
is the team to beat in this . Massive win despite scoring not a big total in game . In se𝐆cond match tonight, great to see in .
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Top class innings from Sanju Samson. The gulf between him and the other b♉atsmen has been there to☂ see.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
DC win by 33 runs. 😪
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
What a sensational bowling effort from to defend this. Total💎 bowling unit with all 5 wicket taking bowlers. Great stuff from them. get ready with another song at night. ensure she has the guitar!!
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
Since start of IPL 2016, 55 batters ha൩ve faced 500 balls. David Miller is in 54t🐟h position in terms of SR and 52nd in terms of Avg. There are more overseas options that could have been tried in this period. Nothing much to lose I would like to believe.
— Gaurav Sundararaman (@gaurav_sundar)
Rajsthan royals to his owner:
— Prayag (@theprayagtiwari)
Despite Sanju Samson's 70*, DC win by 33 runs
Anrich Nortje with anothe🧸r fantastic spell with 2-18, going at under 5/over!
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA)
