In a thrilling encounter, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) emerged victorious against Delhi Capitals (DC) by 9 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday.
Batting first, SRH posted a massive total of 197/6 in their allotted 20 overs. Abhishek Sharma was the standout performer with the bat for the 2016 champions, scoring 67 runs off 36 deliveries, including 12 fours and 1 six.
Apart from Abhishek, Heinrich Klaasen also played a crucial knock, scoring 53 runs off just 27 deliveries, which featured 2 fours and 4 sixes. For the Capitals, Mitchell Marsh was the pick of the bowlers, taking 4 wickets for 27 runs in his 4 overs.
Chasing a daunting target of 198 runs, DC got off to a disastrous start, losing skipper David Warner for a duck in the very first over. However, Philip Salt and Marsh steadied the ship with some good batting performances.
Salt scored 59 runs off 35 deliveries, while Marsh played a brilliant innings of 63 runs off 39 deliveries, including 1 four and 6 sixes. However, despite their efforts, the Capitals fell short of the target, managing to score 188/6 in their 20 overs and losing the contest by 9 runs. For SRH, Mayank Markande and Abhishek took 2 wickets each.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
The Delhi Capitals came close to the target but it’s @SunRisers who emerge victorious in Delhi 👏🏻👏🏻#SRH register a 9-run victory over #DC 👌🏻👌🏻
Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/iOYYyw2zca #TATAIPL | #DCvSRH pic.twitter.com/S5METD41pF
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 29, 2023
Great to see @SunRisers back in form with this win!🙌🏼 Classy knocks from @IamAbhiSharma4 & Heinrich Klaasen . Superb bowling from @MarkandeMayank. What an all-round show it was from Mitchell Marsh. @akshar2026 played well but hard luck today.
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) April 29, 2023
We win. pic.twitter.com/2T0PlHKCOw
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 29, 2023
Playing Thakur and Weise as pure batters…Axar batting at 7. Very interesting day at the #TataIPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 29, 2023
24 Apr – DC beat SRH by 7 runs
29 Apr – SRH beat DC by 9 runsBoth SRH and DC haven’t played any match in between.#IPL2023
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) April 29, 2023
Hard to understand why Axar Patel finds himself so far down the order, one inform batter in #DelhiCapitals XI??#DCvSRH
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket) April 29, 2023
SRH vs DC in the last 5 matches in IPL:
DC won
DC won
DC won
DC won
SRH wonThe Streak has been broken & SRH back on track. pic.twitter.com/vKYVxpUE76
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 29, 2023
Sunrisers Hyderabad have defeated Delhi Capitals in Delhi.
The streak of 5 consecutive wins by DC over SRH ends!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 29, 2023
We fought hard, but it ends in defeat at #QilaKotla 💔
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) April 29, 2023
The boundaries hit after 40 matches…
in #IPL2022 – 1117 fours, 587 sixes
in #IPL2023 – 1172 fours, 622 sixes
That’s 55 fours, and 35 sixes more!The record boundaries hit last #IPL season in 74 games was 2017 fours, 1062 sixes!
How many boundaries will be hit this season?
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) April 29, 2023
Delhi Capitals lost and Mumbai Indians came down two spot to number 9. DC misusing their power of being at bottom. 😭
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 29, 2023
Yuvraj Singh finally have company.
50+ runs & 4+ wkts in a defeat (IPL)
Yuvraj 66 & 4/29 PWI v DC 2011
Yuvraj 83 & 4/35 RCB v RR 2014
Mitchell Marsh 63 & 4/27 today— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) April 29, 2023
Aksar aap hamesha thoda jaldi aaya kijiye ! #SRHvDC #IPL2023
— Ridhima Pathak (@PathakRidhima) April 29, 2023