Delhi Capitals (DC) have won their last league match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season against Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 5 wickets and 3.5 overs to spare at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi on Saturday. The DC chase, despite several bumps, was propelled by a responsible innings from Rishabh Pant (53*), who played his way in and batted with the lower order and then finally burst into life with the finish line in sight. Ish Sodhi (3/26) and Shreyas Gopal (2/21) had made early inroads into the DC batting order to make their chase of 116 more difficult that it had appeared it would. RR had scored 115/9 in their 20 overs. Winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane decided his team would bat first. Ishant Sharma (3/38) got the home team off to a perfect start, capturing the wickets of openers Rahane (2) and Liam Livingstone (14) in successive overs. Sanju Samson (5) was run out after a mix-up with his partner Mahipal Lomror (8) as wickets kept falling. Amit Mishra (3/17) then came up with a killer blow, taking two wickets in consecutive balls - Shreyas Gopal (12) and Stuart Binny (0) falling to him in successive balls. He could have captured a hat-trick as well, which would have been his third in IPL history, but Trent Boult missed an easy catch. Young Riyan Parag (50) anchored the RR innings, even taking 18 runs off Ishant's last over. He never had any partners sticking with him for long enough though, as only Livingstone and Shreyas Gopal managed to reach double figures. He hit Trent Boult for two sixes in the 20th over to bring up his fifty, thus becoming the youngest player in IPL history to score a fifty. (SCORECARD)
IPL 2019 Highlights Between Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals, straight from Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, New Delhi
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Pant finishes off the match with another six
Another six for Pant
DC 84/4 after 14 overs
Four runs off Gowtham's over
Two runs off Gopal's over
Five runs off Gowtham's over
Six runs off Binny's over
Three runs off the 9th over
What happens here on
Riyan Parag into the attack
DC 29/2 after 5 overs
Double wicket maiden for Ish Sodhi
Prithvi Shaw is bowled!
Flicked for four by Shaw
Driven for four! Dhawan again
Six runs off the first over
Net run rate equation
Six! Fifty for Riyan Parag!
RR 100/8 after 19 overs
Rutherford to bowl five balls of the 19th over
The boy carrying RR's hopes
RR 97/8 after 18 overs
Varun Aaron the new man in
Rajasthan lose their 8th wicket
Another four for Parag
Ishant Sharma back into the attack
RR 70/7 after 15 overs
Ish Sodhi has joined Royan Parag
Can RR avoid an unwanted record?
Binny is out! Caught behind
Gopal is out! Stumped
RR 55/4 after 10 overs
RR 51/4 ater 9 overs
Keemo Paul is in the attack
Four for Riyan Parag
Amit Mishra bowling the 8th over
Riyan Parag joins Shreyas Gopal
Ishant gets another wicket
Lomror hits four again
Shreyas Gopal in at No.5
Huge confusion! Samson is run out
Mahipal Lomror hits four
Four for Livingstone
Boult concedes four runs in his 2nd over too
Sanju Samson the new batsman
First six of the day
Ishant Sharma bowls the second over
Four runs from the first over
Trent Boult with the new ball for DC
Teams reading pitch differently?
How the playing XIs stack up
How the pitch is expected to behave
Rahane returns as captain
Those that have stepped up
Delhi Capitals
Rajasthan Royals