Delhi’s thrilling win over Mumbai, spoils the equation of Mumbai

Fast bowler Avesh Khan and left-arm spinner Axar Patel’s three wickets each and Shreyas Iyer’s 33 not out and Ravichandran Ashwin’s superb six in the first ball of the last over helped Delhi Capitals defeat defending champions Mumbai Indians in an IPL match on Saturday. They have created problems for Mumbai by defeating them by four wickets.

Delhi won the match by scoring 132 for six in 19.1 overs after restricting Mumbai to 129 for eight in 20 overs. This is Delhi’s ninth win in 12 matches and they are second on the table with 18 points. On the other hand, this is Mumbai’s seventh defeat in 12 matches and they are in sixth place with 10 points. Mumbai will now have to win the remaining two matches, look at the results of the other teams and improve their run rate to make it to the playoffs.

Delhi captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to field first. Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma became a victim of passion after scoring seven runs in 10 balls with the help of a four. Chinton de Kock was dismissed for 19 runs in 18 balls with the help of a four and a six.

Suryakumar Yadav scored 33 runs in 26 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes and became the second victim of Axar. Saurabh Tiwary became the third victim of Axar after scoring 15 runs in 18 balls with the help of a four. Enrique Nortje to Kieron Pollard. Pollard scored six runs in nine balls. Avesh bowled Hardik Pandya and Nathan Coulter-Nile in the 19th over. Pandya hit two fours in 17 runs off 18 balls.

Jayant Yadav hit a four and a six in 11 runs in just four balls. Jayant was dismissed on the next ball after hitting a six off the first ball of off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the last over of the innings. Krunal Pandya hit a six off Ashwin’s last ball and took Mumbai to 129. Krunal remained unbeaten on 13 runs with the help of a four and a six.
Avesh took three wickets for 15 runs in four overs and Axar took three wickets for 21 runs in four overs. Nortje and Ashwin got a wicket each.
Chasing a small target, Delhi’s top batsmen panicked on the difficult Sharjah pitch and lost their wickets. Shikhar Dhawan was run out for eight runs off seven balls with the help of a six, while his partner Prithvi Shaw went lbw off Krunal Pandya for six off seven balls. Steven Smith was bowled behind the feet by Nathan Coulter-Nile for nine runs. Smith was dismissed for the team’s score of 30.
Pant and Iyer added 27 runs for the fourth wicket. Playing dangerously, Pant hit three fours and a six in his 26 but was caught by Hardik Pandya trying to play a big shot on off-spinner Jayant Yadav. Axar Patel scored nine runs off Trent Boult’s delivery. Shimron Hetmyer scored 15 runs in eight balls with the help of two fours but Hetmyer was hunted by Jasprit Bumrah on the score of 93. At this time Delhi’s innings was in trouble but Iyer was present at one end.
Iyer found a good partner in Ashwin and the duo added 39 runs in an unbeaten seventh-wicket partnership to infuse happiness in the Delhi camp. Ashwin ended the match in the last over with a blazing six off Krunal’s first ball.