DC vs MI in 50 Words
From start to finish, absolutely nothing went our way as we trotted our way to 110/9 before Kishan’s blitz of 72* handed us a 9-wicket defeat that was incredibly hard to swallow. Ahead of our final league-stage match against RCB, we go back to the drawing board.
A Costly Collapse
Ironically, DC fans must have breathed a sigh of relief when Pollard won the toss for MI. We’ve got a 100% win record with 6 wins out of 6 when we’ve lost the toss so far, and the results have been starkly different when the spin of the coin has gone in our favour - 5 losses out of 6. We were batting first with three changes to the playing XI - Shaw, Harshal and Pravin Dubey came in for Rahane, Tushar and Axar.
Once again, we lost one of our openers very early in the innings. This was Shikhar Dhawan’s second duck in a row. The opener had hit a lean patch soon after his back-to-back tons. Krunal Pandya bowled the second over and Iyer took him over mid-off for a boundary. Prithvi Shaw got a couple of fours away, before he top-edged a pull to hand Boult his second wicket in the powerplay. At 15/2, it was far from an ideal start in a crunch game.
It was a quiet phase despite the field restrictions, but Iyer seemed to break the shackles in the 7th over with a towering trademark no-look maximum. No more boundaries came till the 10th over as we reached the halfway mark with 49/2 on the board.
A piece of brilliance from Quinton de Kock behind the stumps meant that Shreyas had to walk back for 25. Jasprit Bumrah ran in to bowl the 12th and made already bad things worse with a double-wicket over, accounting for the big wickets of Stoinis and Pant in the space of four deliveries.
Harshal Patel suffered the consequences of the unsuccessful review used by Rishabh earlier on as he was given out to a Bumrah delivery that the replays showed was going over the stumps. The only recognized batsman remaining, Hetmyer lost his wicket two balls after the 15th over. With wickets falling like skittles, we were reeling at 78/7.
A well-connected pull for six by Ashwin and a textbook lofted straight drive from Rabada over the ropes were the only two boundaries to come from the final five overs as we mustered a total of 110/9. Taking Mumbai’s in-form batting line-up into consideration, below par was an understatement.
Ishan Kishan Secures Top-two Spot for MI
Our bowlers started off the second innings with some tight bowling, giving away just 10 runs from the first two overs. Once Ishan Kishan settled in, he opened up his shoulders to find the boundaries regularly. The openers put away five to the fence to lift MI’s powerplay score to 38/0.
Quinton de Kock and Ishan Kishan looked in fine touch and interspersed boundaries in between ones and twos. Without much ado, they duo put on 68 up until the halfway mark.
Anrich Nortje dismissed fellow countryman de Kock two deliveries later. Alas, it was another case of too little too late.
At the other end, there was no stopping Ishan Kishan. The explosive left hander launched into every DC bowler and scored an unbeaten 72* to help Mumbai cruise to a 9-wicket win.
With every passing game, it’s getting harder to come back from setbacks for the DC stars. Having said that, there is a glimmer of hope. We don’t have to depend on other results to secure a Playoff spot. Against RCB on Monday, DC will step onto the field to decide their own destiny.
Brief Scores
Delhi Capitals 110/9 in 20 overs (Shreyas Iyer 25 off 29, Rishabh Pant 21 off 24, Jasprit Bumrah 3/17, Trent Boult 3/21); Mumbai Indians 111/1 in 14.2 overs (Ishan Kishan 72* off 47, Quinton de Kock 26 off 28, Anrich Nortje 1/25)
DC vs MI in 50 Words
From start to finish, absolutely nothing went our way as we trotted our way to 110/9 before Kishan’s blitz of 72* handed us a 9-wicket defeat that was incredibly hard to swallow. Ahead of our final league-stage match against RCB, we go back to the drawing board.
A Costly Collapse
Ironically, DC fans must have breathed a sigh of relief when Pollard won the toss for MI. We’ve got a 100% win record with 6 wins out of 6 when we’ve lost the toss so far, and the results have been starkly different when the spin of the coin has gone in our favour - 5 losses out of 6. We were batting first with three changes to the playing XI - Shaw, Harshal and Pravin Dubey came in for Rahane, Tushar and Axar.
Once again, we lost one of our openers very early in the innings. This was Shikhar Dhawan’s second duck in a row. The opener had hit a lean patch soon after his back-to-back tons. Krunal Pandya bowled the second over and Iyer took him over mid-off for a boundary. Prithvi Shaw got a couple of fours away, before he top-edged a pull to hand Boult his second wicket in the powerplay. At 15/2, it was far from an ideal start in a crunch game.
It was a quiet phase despite the field restrictions, but Iyer seemed to break the shackles in the 7th over with a towering trademark no-look maximum. No more boundaries came till the 10th over as we reached the halfway mark with 49/2 on the board.
A piece of brilliance from Quinton de Kock behind the stumps meant that Shreyas had to walk back for 25. Jasprit Bumrah ran in to bowl the 12th and made already bad things worse with a double-wicket over, accounting for the big wickets of Stoinis and Pant in the space of four deliveries.
Harshal Patel suffered the consequences of the unsuccessful review used by Rishabh earlier on as he was given out to a Bumrah delivery that the replays showed was going over the stumps. The only recognized batsman remaining, Hetmyer lost his wicket two balls after the 15th over. With wickets falling like skittles, we were reeling at 78/7.
A well-connected pull for six by Ashwin and a textbook lofted straight drive from Rabada over the ropes were the only two boundaries to come from the final five overs as we mustered a total of 110/9. Taking Mumbai’s in-form batting line-up into consideration, below par was an understatement.
Ishan Kishan Secures Top-two Spot for MI
Our bowlers started off the second innings with some tight bowling, giving away just 10 runs from the first two overs. Once Ishan Kishan settled in, he opened up his shoulders to find the boundaries regularly. The openers put away five to the fence to lift MI’s powerplay score to 38/0.
Quinton de Kock and Ishan Kishan looked in fine touch and interspersed boundaries in between ones and twos. Without much ado, they duo put on 68 up until the halfway mark.
Anrich Nortje dismissed fellow countryman de Kock two deliveries later. Alas, it was another case of too little too late.
At the other end, there was no stopping Ishan Kishan. The explosive left hander launched into every DC bowler and scored an unbeaten 72* to help Mumbai cruise to a 9-wicket win.
With every passing game, it’s getting harder to come back from setbacks for the DC stars. Having said that, there is a glimmer of hope. We don’t have to depend on other results to secure a Playoff spot. Against RCB on Monday, DC will step onto the field to decide their own destiny.
Brief Scores
Delhi Capitals 110/9 in 20 overs (Shreyas Iyer 25 off 29, Rishabh Pant 21 off 24, Jasprit Bumrah 3/17, Trent Boult 3/21); Mumbai Indians 111/1 in 14.2 overs (Ishan Kishan 72* off 47, Quinton de Kock 26 off 28, Anrich Nortje 1/25)
