Jake Fraser-McGurk, the younger Australian sensation, performed a blinder to provide Delhi Capitals slim hopes of a miraculous chase. However the right-hander power-hitter proved to be an exception on an evening dominated by left-handers.
Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel, the southpaw spin twins, pulled issues again to get the house workforce again within the Indian Premier League’s maiden sport of the season right here on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. However Sunrisers’ leftie quartet of Travis Head, his associate on the prime Abhishek Sharma, allrounder Shahbaz Ahmed and pacer T. Natarajan ensured Hyderabad broke into prime two with a facile 67-run win.
Head’s and Abhishek Sharma’s sensational strokeplay fetched a whopping 125 runs – the highest-ever tally within the first six overs in T20 cricket historical past. Regardless of Kuldeep and Axar putting 4 instances within the 18 balls, Shahbaz together with Nitish Kumar Reddy ensured Sunrisers ended the innings on a excessive to put up a frightening 266 for seven.
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It was Sunrisers’ third 250-plus complete of the season, additionally the fourth-highest tally in IPL historical past. Head was red-hot proper from the phrase go. He missed a heave off Khaleel Ahmed’s first ball however ever since he linked the subsequent that sailed into the stands, Delhi Capitals was pressured to look at the ball race into or fly over the rope.
Whereas Head stormed to his fifty within the third over, off simply 16 balls, Abhishek made probably the most of his restricted strike by going after Kuldeep, launched within the fifth over. The sphere-restriction interval noticed Head and Abhishek combining 13 fours and 11 sixes as Capitals may bowl simply 5 dot balls. Shahbaz’ maiden fifty then ensured it didn’t lose the momentum regardless of Kuldeep and Axar’s exploits.
Delhi Capitals’ Jake Fraser-McGurk recorded quickest fifty of IPL 2024 in 15 balls.
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Delhi Capitals’ Jake Fraser-McGurk recorded quickest fifty of IPL 2024 in 15 balls.
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Fraser-McGurk then took a cue from his Capitals’ counterparts as he actually prolonged the earlier evening’s web session right into a range-hitting exhibition to depart the Kotla spellbound. On the midway stage, Capitals had notched up 138 on the board, with one other left-hander on the crease.
Nevertheless, Rishabh Pant, Capitals captain, was scratchy all through, thus pegging Delhi again. Natarajan then wound up the tail to finish with enviable figures of 4-1-19-4 and making it an evening to recollect for the left-handers.