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DC beat SRH Highlights IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals puts up a Grand-Show, thrash Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reclaim top spot in IPL Points Table

DC beat SRH Highlights IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals puts up a Grand-Show, thrash Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reclaim top spot in IPL Points Table

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DC beat SRH Highlights IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals puts up a Grand-Show, thrash Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reclaim top spot in IPL Points Table – The fearsome attack & flamboyance of batting order of Delhi Capitals (DC) was too much too handle for Kane Williamosn’s Sunrsiers Hyderabad (SRH). DC registered a business-like eight-wicket triumph in Dubai on Wednesday to register their 7th victory with 13 deliveries to spare. The result meant 7th loss in the tournament for SRH. DC is back on top of the points table, while SRH stayed at the bottom of the table and now almost out of the playoff Race – Follow all LIVE Updates of IPL 2021 on InsideSport.co

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Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals 139/2 (Shreyas Iyer 47*, Shikhar Dhawan 42; Rashid Khan 1/26) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 134/9 (Abdul Samad 28, Rashid Khan 22; Kagiso Rabada 3/37) by eight wickets

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DC beat SRH Highlights IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals puts up a Grand-Show, thrash Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reclaim top spot in IPL Points Table

 

 

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Teams losing 7 out of the first eight games

  • KKR in 2009
  • PBKS in 2010
  • DC in 2013
  • RCB in 2019
  • SRH in 2021

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DC beat SRH Highlights – IPL 2021: Needing 135 runs to win, DC were quick off the blocks, courtesy Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw. But SRH had their first success with the ball in the third over as captain Kane Williamson took a stunning running-catch off Khaleel Ahmed to dismiss Shaw.

DC beat SRH Highlights – IPL 2021: Shreyas Iyer replaced Shaw in the middle as he and Dhawan took DC to 39/1 after the end of the powerplay. The two scored at a good pace and completed an important fifty-run stand in the 11th over.

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However, their partnership was broken in the same over as Rashid Khan dismissed Dhawan for 42 after Abdul Samad took a good catch in the deep.
Pant and Iyer then joined forces and made sure DC continued their charge. The pair put on an unbroken 67-run stand and took DC home, with 2.1 overs to spare. While Iyer scored 47*, Pant hit a quickfire 35* off 21 balls.

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DC beat SRH Highlights – IPL 2021: Earlier, after electing to bat, SRH lost David Warner in the first over off Anrich Nortje. While Wriddhiman Saha and Williamson added 29 runs together, DC managed to strike for the second time as Kagiso Rabada dismissed the SRH wicketkeeper for 18 in the fifth over.

Manish Pandey joined Williamson in the middle after Saha’s fall. The pair kept the scorecard ticking and took SRH past fifty before Williamson got two reprieves – one each from Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw.
But that did not cost DC much as the SRH skipper got out soon after as Shimron Hetmyer held on to a catch in the deep off Axar Patel. Rabada then picked his second wicket of the match as he had Pandey’s wicket in the 11th over.
DC beat SRH Highlights – IPL 2021: Kedar Jadhav was the next man to get out as Nortje trapped him before the wickets to pick his second scalp of the night. DC continued to chip away as Axar then had the better off Jason Holder.

Rashid and Samad then added a vital 25 runs together to take SRH past 110 before Rabada dismissed Samad after the right-hander scored a vital 28. Rashid, meanwhile, continued to put up a fight and scored 22 before being run-out for 22 in the final over.

 

DC beat SRH Highlights – IPL 2021: Toss Report

Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson won the toss and opted to bat first against Rishabh Pant’s Delhi Capitals here at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai on Wednesday in the 33rd match of the IPL 2021. R Ashwin is playing for Delhi Capitals. The off-spinner made a comeback into Team India for the T20 World Cup. 

Playing XI

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): David Warner, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Kane Williamson(c), Manish Pandey, Jason Holder, Abdul Samad, Kedar Jadhav, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Avesh Khan

Both Team Captains at the toss

Kane Williamson: We will bat. Looks like a good surface, important for us to assess conditions first up and get some runs on the board. It’s a chance to regroup and want to put up a much better performance. Holder, Rashid, Warner and myself are the four foreign players.

DC beat SRH Highlights IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals puts up a Grand-Show, thrash Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reclaim top spot in IPL Points Table

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