Delhi Capitals Vs Lucknow Super Giants Match 64 14 May 2024

64th T20 • Arun Jaitley Stadium • Delhi

Delhi Capitals

208/4 (20)

Lucknow Super Giants

189/9 (20)

DC won by 19 runs

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Date & Time

14 May, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Match

64th T20,

Indian Premier League

Umpires

Akshay Totre (India), Vinod Seshan (India), KN Ananthapadmanabhan(India, TV)

Referee

Daniel Manohar (India)

Toss

Lucknow Super Giants elected to bowl

Pitch Report

The ground is small, it's a high scoring venue. 60 meters to the off side for a right hander, 66 meters to the leg side. There is a bit of breeze going down the ground. This is the highest scoring strip on the ground. If you bowl length on this pitch you get absolutely pulverized. The ball skids on to the bat beautifully. The average score on this pitch is 250. Bit of sheen on the track, superficial grass on it. Lots of runs on this track, batting first has helped over here, reports Graeme Swann and Murali Kartik.

1st Innings

162Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

137.04Avg SR

2nd Innings

151Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

138.76Avg SR

Weather Update

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

1- 3

LSG

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Delhi Capitals

Lucknow Super Giants

Players to Watch

Top Batters

KL Rahul

LSG . WK

460 Runs

12 Matches

Rishabh Pant

DC . WK

413 Runs

12 Matches

Nicholas Pooran

LSG . WK

363 Runs

12 Matches

Top Bowlers

Khaleel Ahmed

DC . BOWL

16 Wkts

13 Matches

Mukesh Kumar

DC . BOWL

16 Wkts

9 Matches

Kuldeep Yadav

DC . BOWL

15 Wkts

10 Matches

Player of the Match Ishant Sharma

3/34

LSG

Info

Delhi Capitals

208/4 (20)

Batters

Jake Fraser-McGurk

0.00

c Haq b Khan

Abishek Porel

175.76

c Pooran b Haq

Shai Hope

140.74

c Rahul b Bishnoi

Rishabh Pant

143.48

c Hooda b Haq

Tristan Stubbs

228.00

Not out

Axar Patel

140.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 0, NB: 0, W: 8)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 10.4)

208/4

Did not Bat

Gulbadin Naib, Rasikh Dar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma

Bowlers

EXT

Arshad Khan

15.00

Mohsin Khan

7.25

Yudhvir Singh Charak

14.00

Naveen ul Haq

12.75

Ravi Bishnoi

6.50

Krunal Pandya

10.00

Deepak Hooda

9.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Jake Fraser-McGurk

c Haq b Khan

1-2

0.2

Shai Hope

c Rahul b Bishnoi

2-94

8.3

Abishek Porel

c Pooran b Haq

3-111

11.1

Rishabh Pant

c Hooda b Haq

4-158

16.2

Lucknow Super Giants

189/9 (20)

Batters

Quinton De Kock

150.00

c Kumar b Sharma

KL Rahul

166.67

c Kumar b Sharma

Marcus Stoinis

71.43

st Pant b Patel

Deepak Hooda

0.00

lbw b Sharma

Nicholas Pooran

225.93

c Patel b Kumar

Ayush Badoni

66.67

c Naib b Stubbs

Krunal Pandya

100.00

st Pant b Yadav

Arshad Khan

175.76

Not out

Yudhvir Singh Charak

200.00

c Hope b Ahmed

Ravi Bishnoi

100.00

runout (Fraser-McGurk)

Naveen ul Haq

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 5)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 9.45)

189/9

Bowlers

EXT

Ishant Sharma

8.50

Syed Khaleel Ahmed

11.00

Axar Patel

20.00

Mukesh Kumar

8.25

Kuldeep Yadav

8.25

Tristan Stubbs

4.00

Gulbadin Naib

12.00

Rasikh Dar

10.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

KL Rahul

c Kumar b Sharma

1-7

0.5

Quinton De Kock

c Kumar b Sharma

2-24

2.5

Marcus Stoinis

st Pant b Patel

3-24

3.1

Deepak Hooda

lbw b Sharma

4-44

4.1

Ayush Badoni

c Naib b Stubbs

5-71

7.3

Nicholas Pooran

c Patel b Kumar

6-101

11.1

Krunal Pandya

st Pant b Yadav

7-134

14.4

Yudhvir Singh Charak

c Hope b Ahmed

8-167

16.6

Ravi Bishnoi

runout (Fraser-McGurk)

9-183

18.3

Match Info

Date & Time

14 May, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Match

64th T20,

Indian Premier League

Umpires

Akshay Totre (India), Vinod Seshan (India), KN Ananthapadmanabhan(India, TV)

Referee

Daniel Manohar (India)

Toss

Lucknow Super Giants elected to bowl

0 6 1wd 6 4 1 W

Over 17

Runs: 18

1 1 6 2 2 1

Over 18

Runs: 13

1 1 1W 0 1 2

Over 19

Runs: 6

0 2 1 0 0 0

Over 20

Runs: 3

All Overs

Player of the Match Ishant Sharma

3/34

Commentary

That's all that we have for you from the Indian Premier League today. We'll be back with more of the same in the evening tomorrow as the Rajasthan Royals aim for a spot in the top-two, going into their penultimate league game against the Punjab Kings. Join us right here on Sportskeeda for our coverage of that, and a lot more! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Shashwat Kumar. Good night - see you tomorrow!

The Delhi Capitals are done with their league fixtures. 14 points is what they've gathered in them - with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru playing the Chennai Super Kings on Saturday and the Sunrisers Hyderabad having a couple of games left to play, their playoff chances look rather bleak at the moment.

The same goes for the Lucknow Super Giants. A loss for them tonight has sparked celebrations in the Rajasthan Royals' camp - the 2008-IPL champions are through to the playoffs! Arshad Khan's belated onslaught kept LSG's playoff hopes well and truly alive, but now, they hang by a thread. LSG need a resounding win against the Mumbai Indians on Friday, and they'll be desperate for results to go their way as well.

Ishant Sharma has been adjudged Player Of The Match! Here's what he has to say: The last few games I've been trying to bowl a knuckle ball, it was not going well. Had to bring something new, the last two games I've been working on these new slower balls, been working for me, got Virat out the last game. This time I got KL out. I don't really think too much about the time passed, playing after so long being a fast bowler, you don't have to think too much. Just looking forward to the day, Just want to thank Patrick (Farhart), because of him I've played all the 9 games. Had a few injuries, recovered thanks to him. After the defeats, we sit down together. There was a belief, which is very important to have at a higher level. We talked about how to come back after a big defeat. In this kind of competition, close wins give you confidence, and it's important to take the momentum forward.

Rishabh Pant (Delhi Capitals captain): He (Pooran) was giving us a really hard time, that kind of player with the calibre he has. We had a certain plan, though, the total was good enough, if he wanted to win it he should have gone after each delivery. We didn't let him do so. We started the season with a lot of hope, there has been the odd injury here and there, few ups and downs, as a franchise, you can't complain all the time. You've got to make use of what you have. You've got to make use of what you have. We were very close, though, we are still in contention for playoffs. There are some things you can control, some you can't. We would have had better chances of qualification had I played the previous match. Personally, it was fantastic to come back on the field. The kind of support I got from the whole of India was heartening to see, wherever I played I got the support from each an every person, that was great to see. Everyone knew I'm playing after one and a half years, loved every bit of it, I don't want to stay off the ground.

Nicholas Pooran is awarded the On-The-Go 4s of the Match!

Arshad Khan takes the award for Super Sixes Of The Match!

Right - time for the presentations now. Tristan Stubbs has been adjudged the Electric Striker Of The Match, and also the Ultimate Fantasy Player Of The Match!

Kuldeep Yadav (Delhi Capitals): It was a good wicket to bowl on, especially for the spinners. I thought in the second innings I was getting a little bit of grip. I was trying to spin the ball. That's what it was all about. Obviously the length matters but the wicket was a bit slow so I was trying to bowl a little fuller. Revs are very important. If you're playing on a good track it's easy to adjust the length but when the wicket is very slow you have to be perfect with your length. The pace is very important - I try to push the ball and revs are very important as well. (On DC's mathematical chances) We just came here to win the game and we won. That was important for us. Obviously the net run-rate matters a lot but let's see, we'll watch for a couple of days.

KL Rahul (Lucknow Super Giants captain): I feel the wicket remained pretty similar throughout the 40 overs. When we got Jake out in the first over we thought we started off really well and we should have capitalized on that. But that's how the season has been, even when wickets fall the players just keep coming and hit out. Shai Hope and Abishek Porel put pressure on us but we pulled it back at the back end. I think 200 was a par score and we should have chased it down. This has been a problem throughout the season - we keep losing wickets in the powerplay. We don't give our stars like Stoinis and Pooran the platform to walk out in the eighth over and carry on.

Match summary:

Delhi Capitals win by 19 runs

Abishek Porel 58(33) | Ishant Sharma 3/34 (4)
Nicholas Pooran 61(27) | Naveen-ul-Haq 2/51 (4)

Ishant Sharma had the Lucknow Super Giants top-order on strings with some quality new-ball bowling. Having set Rahul up with an inswinger or two in the first over, he got one to move away from the LSG skipper, Rahul skewed it up towards deep point, and Mukesh completed a fine catch. Mukesh and Ishant combined again in his next over after the veteran fast-bowler enticed de Kock into a false stroke and spooned a catch to mid on, and once Stoinis ran past Axar Patel's first delivery of the night, LSG were in a soup.

Nicholas Pooran, though, was eager on taking the attack to the opposition, and launched into a mind-boggling counter-attack. Axar proceeded to concede 20 off the remainder of his first over as Pooran dug into his left-arm spin. But the wickets kept tumbling at the other end - Ishant trapped Hooda in front with an in-dipper, and an over after the end of the powerplay, Badoni tried to go big against Tristan stubbs and holed out. Pooran, though, kept going after everything in his radar, bringing up a half-century of his own in 20 deliveries.

Once Pooran smashed one low to Axar Patel's right at cover off Mukesh and perished in the 12th over, it seemed like the Capitals had this one in the bag. The Capitals, though, were in for a brutal shock - Arshad Khan emerged as a prominent obstacle in their way of a Net Run Rate-propelling victory. Arshad swung at anything and everything that came along in his radar - irrespective of spin or pace, and despite the loss of Krunal Pandya, the Super Giants were well in the contest with 5 overs remaining in the chase.

Yudhvir Singh Charak joined in on the act, clubbing Rasikh Salam for 10 in his first couple deliveries of the night. Pant went back to Khaleel for the 17th over, and more fireworks followed from Arshad. He picked the lengths right out the hand, picked his spots and hit the ball accordingly. The Capitals were under immense pressure going into the final three even as Khaleel accounted for Yudhvir off his final ball of the night.

Arshad kept fighting as the mistakes from the Capitals fielders compounded. Signs of frustrations began creeping in among the ranks of the Rishabh Pant-led side as Arshad brought the equation down to 29 off the last two. Mukesh Kumar, though, held his nerve, tucked Arshad for room, and with the momentum off his grasp, Arshad couldn't find the boundary on a single instance in the last two overs. The Capitals take two points, and just about stay in contention for a berth in the final four. Presentations coming up in a bit...

The Capitals prevail! They thought they had the game long ago - Arshad Khan played an absolute blinder, and took the game to the last over. He ran out of support and deliveries in the end...

overs

189 /9 score

runs

Naveen ul Haq *

2 (4)

Arshad Khan

58 (33)

Rasikh Salam

0 /30

19.6 Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, DC WIN BY 19 RUNS! Into the blockhole just outside off. Naveen sits deep in his crease and jams it back towards the bowler. A roar goes up around the stadium. DC are still hanging on by a thread; LSG, meanwhile, are also still alive mathematically, but a whole host of results will have to go both of these teams' way for them to make the top four from here!

19.5 Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, off-pace on a length just outside off. Naveen swings for the hills and the bat ends up in a different postcode to the ball

19.4 Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, WELL WELL! Slower ball on a length outside off. Naveen decides a week early that he wants to play the reverse lap and gets nowhere close to it

19.3 Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, top yorker on middle and off. Arshad can only squeeze it out towards long off. Three legal balls and DC should be home...

Poor throw from the deep once again. Arshad was actually reluctant to return for the second there - a better throw might have had him by yards!

19.2 Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, fullish just outside off. Arshad has a massive swing at it and shanks it towards deep mid wicket. Arshad has to scramble back for the second and makes it

19.1 Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, full toss outside off. Arshad steps down the track and powers it straight to the sweeper at long off. Single not taken either

Rasikh Dar Salam (2-0-27-0) to bowl the final over

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