1 week Ago By Krishnakant Kukreti
Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai Indians (MI) secured a 12-run victory over Delhi Capitals (DC) on April 13. This outcome helped the visitors stop from letting the campaign go out of their hands. DC were going well at 119/1 at the half-inning point, but were bowled out for 193 in 19 overs.
Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel put the blame on the ‘soft dismissals’ in the middle order that caused the team to loss, but did not let the result get the better half on him.“We had the game. I think we had soft dismissals from the middle order, some bad shots.
We lost by 12 runs with an over to go, so we could have still won it. It can’t happen that your lower-order batters will always come and save you in chases,” he said“There are some odd days where you play wrong shots, so I don’t think there’s any point thinking too much about it. I thought 205 was a great target because it was a good pitch and dew was also coming,” he added“Maybe if we had caught better, we’d have kept them to a lower score.
I get confidence in bowling all three of our spinners, and two of the three can also bowl in the powerplay,” he further added.“Kuldeep is bowling unbelievably this season. Whenever I need a wicket, I can go to him.
I think there were a lot of positives today — we just need to forget about this game,” he concluded.Coming to the match, Mumbai Indians posted a total score of 205/3 on the board. Opener Rohit Sharma looked good in the initial moments, but was also soon dismissed for 18 off 12 balls.
Tilak Varma was the highest scorer for the team, as he played an impressive knock of 59 off 33.Ryan Rickelton (41 off 25) and Suryakumar Yadav (40 off 28) also made significant contributions. MI skipper Hardik Pandya (2) and Will Jacks (1) failed to make significant impact.
Starting their chase, DC was given their first hit in the first over itself. Though, after that the team was going strongly till the half-inning mark, with 113 runs on the board. However, the second phase of inning marked a collapse in batting as Abhishek Porel (33 off 25), Karun Nair (89 off 40), Axar Patel (9 off 6), Tristan Stubbs (1 off 4) and KL Rahul were dismissed in 6 overs, leaving the team in shambles.
In the final four overs, DC was in need of 42 runs, but soon Vipraj Nigam (14 off 8) was another wicket that came in and the team was needing 23 runs in final 2 overs. Eventually DC got wrapped up in 193 runs by the end of 19th over, as MI secured a 12-wicket victory.The post ‘Don’t think there’s.
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