The Lucknow Super Giants defeated the Delhi Capitals in an eye watering match and registered their first win of the tournament.

The Delhi Capitals defeated the Lucknow Super Giants in an eye watering match and registered their first win of the tournament . Today’s match could be belonged completely to any team. The Lucknow Super Giants posted a humongous total of 209 runs after losing the toss to the Delhi Capitals at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. Ashutosh Sharma’s escalated the excitement of the spectators and this made him the man to look out for in the entire IPL season

The LSG batters performed exceptionally well, especially Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran, who scored 72 runs and 75 runs respectively. Mitchell Marsh’s 72 runs came in 36 balls with a strike rate of 200. At the same time, Nicholas Pooran played a monstrous innings of 75 runs in just 30 balls with a strike rate of 250. The captain Rishabh Pant failed to create an impact with the bat and was dismissed for a duck by Kuldeep Yadav. Marsh and Pooran’s batting led the LSG for a very admirable total. The DC bowlers apart from Axar failed to create an impact. In his three over spell, he spared just 18 runs but could not claim any wicket for himself. Although Mitchell Starc clinched three wickets in his four over spell but turned out to be very expensive by sparing 42 runs with an economy of 10.5.

The DC batting line up faced serious problem when three of their top four batters were dismissed early. The last minute entry of all-rounder Shardul Thakur really worked for the Lucknow franchisee. He dismissed Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abhishek Porel in his first over itself. Skipper Axar Patel was also sent back to the pavilion early on 22 runs by Durgesh Rathi. Vipraj and Ashutosh’s partnership brought Delhi back into the competition but the ‘Man of the Hour’ was Ashutosh Sharma. He led his team to victory and contributed the most in the match today for Delhi Capitals. Vipraj Nigam showed an intent to fight back when he smashed consecutive boundaries against the Lucknow bowlers, but his innings ultimately came to an end on 39 runs. Apart from Vipraj Nigam, Tristan Stubbs gave a good hand with the bat by smashing 34 runs and. M Siddharth and Shardul Thakur took two wickets each for themselves with an economy of over 9 per over the YSR Reddy Stadium witnessed fireworks with batting of Marsh Puran and Vipra Nigam.

Ashutosh Sharma played an innings of a lifetime when he dragged Delhi Capitals from the dead with a blistering half century and helped them defeat Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket in a thrilling encounter. Vipraj Nigam’s quickfire 39 off 15 and Tristan Stubbs’ 34 also played their part as Sharma entered god mode in the end, pulling DC, who were down 4 wickets at the end of the powerplay, kicking and screaming over the finish line.

DC vs LSG: Squads

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (c), KL Rahul, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmanta Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.

Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (c), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Himmat Singh, M Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke.

ScoreCard

LSG – Batting

Batter	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Aiden Markramc Starc b Nigam	15	13	1	1	115.38
Mitchell Marshc Stubbs b Kumar	72	36	6	6	200.00
Nicholas Pooranb Starc	75	30	6	7	250.00
Rishabh Pant(C)(WK)c Plessis b Yadav	0	6	0	0	0.00
David MillerNOT OUT	27	19	1	2	142.11
Ayush Badonic Stubbs b Yadav	4	5	0	0	80.00
Shardul Thakurrun out (Patel / Porel)	0	2	0	0	0.00
Shahbaz Ahmedc Vijay b Starc	9	8	1	0	112.50
Ravi Bishnoib Starc	0	2	0	0	0.00
Digvesh Singh RathiNOT OUT	0	0	0	0	0.00

Extras: 7(b 0, lb 2, w 4, nb 1, p 0)

DC – BOWLING

Bowler	O	M	R	W	ER
Mitchell Starc	4.0	0	42	3	10.50
Axar Patel(C)	3.0	0	18	0	6.00
Vipraj Nigam	2.0	0	35	1	17.50
Mukesh Kumar	2.0	0	22	1	11.00
Kuldeep Yadav	4.0	0	20	2	5.00
Mohit Sharma	4.0	0	42	0	10.50
Tristan Stubbs	1.0	0	28	0	28.00

FALL OF WICKETS

Batsman	Score	Overs
Aiden Markram	46-1	4.4
Mitchell Marsh	133-2	11.4
Rishabh Pant(C)(WK)	161-3	13.4
Nicholas Pooran	169-4	14.5
Ayush Badoni	177-5	16.2
Shardul Thakur	177-6	16.4
Shahbaz Ahmed	194-7	18.4
Ravi Bishnoi	194-8	19.0

DC – Batting

Batter	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Jake Fraser-McGurkc Badoni b Thakur	1	2	0	0	50.00
Faf du Plessisc Miller b Bishnoi	29	18	3	2	161.11
Abishek Porel(WK)c Pooran b Thakur	0	2	0	0	0.00
Sameer Rizvic Pant b Siddharth	4	4	1	0	100.00
Axar Patel(C)c Pooran b Rathi	22	11	3	1	200.00
Tristan Stubbsb Siddharth	34	22	1	3	154.55
Ashutosh SharmaIMPACTNOT OUT	66	31	5	5	212.90
Vipraj Nigamc Siddharth b Rathi	39	15	5	2	260.00
Mitchell Starcc Pant b Bishnoi	2	5	0	0	40.00
Kuldeep Yadavrun out (Pant / Yadav)	5	5	1	0	100.00
Mohit SharmaNOT OUT	1	2	0	0	50.00

Extras: 8(b 0, lb 0, w 8, nb 0, p 0)

LSG – BOWLING

Bowler	O	M	R	W	ER
Shardul Thakur	2.0	0	19	2	9.50
Manimaran SiddharthIMPACT	4.0	0	39	2	9.75
Digvesh Singh Rathi	4.0	0	31	2	7.75
Ravi Bishnoi	4.0	0	53	2	13.25
Prince Yadav	4.0	0	47	0	11.75
Shahbaz Ahmed	1.3	0	22	0	14.67

FALL OF WICKETS

Batsman	Score	Overs
Jake Fraser-McGurk	2-1	0.3
Abishek Porel(WK)	2-2	0.5
Sameer Rizvi	7-3	1.4
Axar Patel(C)	50-4	5.3
Faf du Plessis	65-5	6.4
Tristan Stubbs	113-6	12.3
Vipraj Nigam	168-7	16.1
Mitchell Starc	171-8	17.1
Kuldeep Yadav	192-9	18.3