IPL 2025, DC vs RR: Capitals have the final snicker in Tremendous Over end

Delhi Capitals batsman Tristan Stubbs and Ok.L. Rahul after successful the match within the tremendous overt towards Rajasthan Royals throughout the IPL T20 Match on the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in New Delhi on April 16, 2025.
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On a drama-filled night on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Capitals prevailed over Rajasthan Royals in a Tremendous Over to notch up its fifth win in six matches within the IPL’s 18th version.

Within the Tremendous Over, Royals batted first and made 11 off Mitchell Starc’s 5 deliveries whereas shedding Riyan Parag and Yashasvi Jaiswal to run-outs. Capitals acquired the job achieved when Tristan Stubbs pulled Sandeep Sharma for six off the fourth supply.

That the match reached a frenetic tie-breaker was right down to each groups making 188 within the allotted 20 overs.

With RR needing two runs off the final ball in a chase of 189, Dhruv Jurel flicked Starc’s full supply to Axar Patel at deep midwicket.

However having timed his shot too effectively, he was run out attempting to get again for the second run.

Starc was sensible proper by way of the twentieth over, touchdown the ball close to the blockhole and making it tough for Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer to get beneath it.

Earlier than that, Nitish Rana and Jaiswal had impressed with half-centuries. Rana took the lead after Jaiswal’s dismissal by Kuldeep Yadav. At the beginning of the fifteenth over, bowled by Axar, Royals wanted one other 73 runs from 36 balls.

Rana made the a lot of the match-up by hitting the left-arm spinner for 2 fours and a six. Within the subsequent over, Rana dispatched a protracted hop by Kuldeep over deep midwicket for six. It took a searing yorker from Starc to entice Rana leg-before.

Jaiswal started the chase by dictating phrases towards Starc. Within the Australian’s second over, 19 runs had been added to RR’s whole as Jaiswal lower, pulled and slogged throughout the road with disdain.

For Capitals to succeed in 188 for 5, Axar and Stubbs produced a couple of lusty blows within the closing 5 overs.

On a deck the place hitting by way of the road didn’t appear all that straightforward within the preliminary levels, Abishek Porel and Ok.L. Rahul took 57 balls to place collectively 63 runs for the third wicket.

The spark got here from the decrease middle-order, serving to the host add 77 runs from overs 16-20.

The ultimate over by Sandeep went for 19 runs, with the medium-pacer’s 4 wides and a no-ball ensuing within the over spanning 11 deliveries.