On Saturday afternoon, Delhi Capitals (DC) thrashed Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to qual🐬ify 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 balls, 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 2ꦦ4 and 28, respectively.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Another win for Delhi Capitals and a very good one at that. Wel🐓l 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 second 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 batsmen ♏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. ge🧸t ready with another song at night. ensure she has the guitar!!💮
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar)
Since start of IPL 2016, 5𒊎5 batters have faced 500 balls. David Miller is in 54th 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 another fan✤tastic spe🤡ll with 2-18, going at under 5/over!
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA)
