Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel marvelled at Mitchell Starc's ability to bowl precise yorkers under pressure after the pace spearhead propelled the side to a thrilling Super Over victory over Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.
Left-arm quick Starc kept Rajasthan down to 188-4 in response to Delhi's 188-5 and then returned to bowl another disciplined over at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground.
Karun Nair led Delhi's pursuit of 206 with a scintillating 89 but once he departed, the wheels came off their innings and the Capitals were all out for 193 - losing their last three wickets to a hat-trick of run-outs in a bizarre finish.
Rahul, 32, hit six sixes and seven fours in his scintillating 53-ball knock to help Delhi overhaul Bengaluru's 163-7 with 13 balls to spare at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Despite qualifying for their third consecutive final, Delhi Capitals faltered in a 150-run chase as Mumbai's bowlers struck at regular intervals in a thrilling contest.
Brook was signed by Delhi Capitals in December 2023 but pulled out of last year's campaign following the death of his grandmother. On Sunday the 26-year-old said he had opted to skip this year's edition too in order to prepare for England's upcoming series.
The 44-year-old batting great joins a team he captained in 2014 and his last IPL season as a player came two years later.
The owners of the Delhi Capitals are eyeing a £120 million ($153 million) deal to buy Hampshire County Cricket Club in a move which would see them become the first overseas franchise to own an English first-class county, according to media reports.
"I've seen a lot of reports about it,” Ponting told the ICC. “Normally these things pop up on social media before you even know about them, but there were a few little one-on-one conversations during the IPL, just to get a level of interest from me as to whether I would do it," said Ponting.
Delhi Capitals’ officials lodged a complaint to Indira Gandhi International Airport authority in Delhi after the franchise’s players found bats and other cricketing equipment missing from their kits bags following their arrival to Delhi from Bangalore on Sunday, reports the Indian Express.
Passive-aggressive gestures between Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly have got the social media buzzing of late.
David Warner's Delhi remain winless, and bottom of the 10-team table
Despite scoring a 34-ball fifty against Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli expressed his disappointment at not being able to continue a good start.
Delhi, the league's only winless side this season, remained rooted at the bottom of the 10-team league after another slipshod show by a stuttering top order that includes Warner
Delhi Capitals fell to their fifth loss in this Indian Premier League after a 23-run defeat at the hands of a Virat Kohli-inspired Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday.
Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman got the nod in back-to-back matches for Delhi Capitals as he is starting in the eleven in the encounter against the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday.
David Warner is under fire in the Indian Premier League after the Australian's Delhi Capitals lost for a fourth time in as many matches and sit bottom of the pile.
The chance was there for Delhi Capitals to register their first win in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) but skipper David Warner said, despite a brilliant effort, two deliveries from Mustafizur Rahman eventually saw the match go Mumbai Indians’ favour at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi yesterday.
Former Indian cricketers Virender Sehwag and Sunil Gavaskar both criticised David Warner’s performance for the Delhi Capitals against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday, where the Capitals were let down by a poor chase against the Royals’ total of 199.
