Squads:
RR: Jos Buttler, Manan Vohra, Sanju Samson(w/c), Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Shreyas Gopal, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman, David Miller, Jaydev Unadkat, Andrew Tye, Liam Livingstone, KC Cariappa, Mahipal Lomror, Jofra Archer, Mayank Markande, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, Kuldip Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Akash Singh
DC: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tom Curran, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Steven Smith, Sam Billings, Axar Patel, Lukman Meriwala, Praveen Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Manimaran Siddharth, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel
Rajasthan Royals register their first victory this season. There were a lot of questions raised when they paid the hefty amount for the services of Chris Morris. With a match-winning 18-ball 36 cameo, Morris turned the game on its head. He hit four towering sixes in the final two overs to get his team over the line.
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12 runs needed from the last over. Tom Curran bowls a pin-point yorker but Chris Morris gets a couple of runs. Poor fielding in the deep, too slow to throw back to the wicketkeeper. SIX! The back of the hand delivery goes wrong and Morris hits it for a massive six. Morris hits the next ball straight to Shikhar Dhawan, a dot ball. SIX! Full toss from Curran and Morris hits it in the stands. RR beat DC by 3 wickets in a low-scoring thriller. RR 150/7 after 19.3 overs
Kagiso Rabada bowls the penultimate over. SIX! That was in Morris' arc and he hits it deep into the stands. A much-needed six for Rajasthan. Two dot balls to follow from Rabada. Morris gets an outside edge, Avesh Khan cuts it off, a couple of runs. SIX! Morris whips that one over deep fine leg for a huge six. This match is very much alive. The most expensive player in IPL auction history has not given up yet. He takes a single to retain strike, a wise move. RR need 12 runs from the last over. RR 136/7 after 19 overs
Rishabh Pant misses run out. Chris Morris hit the ball from Tom Curran towards mid-wicket. Morris denied the second run and Jaydev Unadkat put in a full dive. The ball slipped out of Pant's gloves otherwise Unadkat would have been a goner. Unadkat gets a single. Morris struggling to get under the ball, gets another single. A top edge off Unadkat's bat. He gets a couple of runs. A yorker from Curran but Unadkat gets an inside edge, gets a quick single. Morris retains the strike with a single. RR need 27 runs from 2 overs. RR 121/7 after 18 overs
Chris Morris gets a single off Avesh Khan's last ball of the spell. Jaydev Unadkat is the new batsman in. Chris Woakes back in attack to bowl his final over. Morris hits the ball towards long-on, gets a single. Woakes surprises Unadkat with a short one, a dot ball. SIX! Unadkat pulls and hits the ball into the stands. This is Unadkat's first six in IPL since 2018 and the second of his career. After magic with the ball, can he do it with the bat too? A dot ball to follow. Unadkat plays the ball wide of third man, gets a single. Morris plays the last ball for a single. RR need 34 runs from last three overs. RR 114/7 after 17 overs
Chris Morris is the new man in, he gets beaten by Rabada on the first delivery. FIFTY! David Miller gets to his half-century, his 10th in IPL. The lone effort tonight shows what Miller is made off. It almost makes one wonder why Miller was warming the benches last season when Rajasthan were struggling to win games. Morris gets off the mark with a single. SIX! Miller hits his first maximum of the innings. He is targetting Avesh Khan. SIX! That is a huge one. Miller is showing his true class. That was as clean as any hit you will ever see. Pant is putting an arm around Avesh's shoulder. He needs that after two consecutive sixes. WICKET! Avesh gets his man. Miller could not hit that one over the boundary, Lalit takes the catch. Miller out for 62. RR 104/7 after 15.5 overs
Kagiso Rabada is back into the attack. Delhi need a wicket here. This partnership has gone for too long for Delhi's comfort. Three singles and a couple of runs off the first four deliveries. WICKET! The extra pace gets the better of Tewatia as he plays it towards mid-wicket fielder Lalit Yadav. Rabada does the job he was asked to, break the partnership. RR 90/6 after 14.5 overs
Tom Curran continues. Two singles off the first two balls. FOUR! Tewatia hangs back in the crease and hits the slower ball over the mid-off fielder for a boundary. His first of the match. Two singles to follow. FOUR! Tewatia finds the boundary again, this time sweeps the ball between square leg fielder and short fine leg fielder. RR 85/5 after 14 overs
Marcus Stoinis into the attack. Rahul Tewatia gets a single first ball. FOUR! David Miller hits the short ball in the gap on the on side, gets a boundary. FOUR! Miller picks the slower bowl from Stoinis early and smashes it along the ground for a boundary. He has moved into 40s now. FOUR! Make it three in a row. Miller plays the slower low full toss towards deep mid-wicket for a boundary. He hits the ball down the ground again but gets just a single. Tewatia ends the over with a single. 15 runs from Stoinis' over. Miller keeps Rajasthan in the game. RR 73/5 after 13 overs
Tom Curran finally introduced into the attack. He starts off with a wide delivery. Rahul Tewatia terribly struggling against Curran's change of pace as he faces four dot balls in a row. Just a single from the over. Top start from ex-RR bowler. RR 58/5 after 12 overs
R Ashwin continues. He has been creating problems for David Miller darting the ball to middle and leg. Just four singles from Ashwin's third over. Miller has got to find a way to take on Ashwin. The required run rate is above 10 runs per over now. RR 56/5 after 11 overs
Rahul Tewatia is the new batsman in. He gets off the mark with a single. FOUR! David Miller picks the short ball early and hits it towards deep mid-wicket for a boundary. FOUR! Miller gets it in his arc and he pierces the off side field. Another boundary for Miller. The Proteas batsman has made up his mind. He needs to accelerate to get this run chase back on track. A single to end the over. RR 52/5 after 10 overs
Avesh Khan continues, David Miller gets off the strike with a single. WICKET! Riyan Parag fails to pick the slower delivery and hits it straight up in the air. Shikhar Dhawan completes the catch easily. His third catch of the night. Parag out for 2. RR 42/5 after 9.2 overs
R Ashwin continues. David Miller works the ball towards on side, gets a single. Smart cricket from the Proteas batsman under circumstances. Riyan Parag is the new batsman in. He has already played two dot balls in Avesh Khan's last over. Parag takes a single with a slap towards deep cover. Miller plays a dot ball. A single off the next one. Parag plays the ball towards long-on for a single. Miller takes a single off the last ball, retains strike. Meanwhile, the required run rate is nearing 10 runs per over. RR 41/4 after 9 overs
Avesh Khan back in attack. FOUR! David Miller plays it wide of third man fielder, beats Tom Curran. Good start to the over. He takes a single off the next one. A dot ball to follow. WICKET! Shivam Dube edges the ball to first slip fielder Shikhar Dhawan. Another one goes down. Rajasthan in trouble. RR 36/4 after 7.4 overs
Ravichandran Ashwin into the attack. Good time for him to bowl with two left-handed batsmen in the middle. David Miller on strike, an inside edge off his bat, a dot ball. Another dot ball to follow. Miller plays it towards mid-on, gets a single. Shivam Dube guides it towards square leg, just a single. Miller works towards leg side, gets a couple of runs, Good running between the wickets. Another single to end the over. RR 31/3 after 7 overs
Kagiso Rabada continues, David Miller on strike. FOUR! Miller hits his countryman for a boundary down the ground, beating the mid-off fielder. Rabada does well after that, four dot deliveries on the trot. Miller plays with soft hands and guides the ball past Rishabh Pant. A single to end the over. RR 26/3 after 6 overs
Chris Woakes continues, his third over. Inside edge and David Miller gets a single. A dot ball to Shivam Dube, he is yet to get off the mark. Dube plays the ball towards covers, gets a single. Good fielding from Rabada diving to stop the extra run. Woakes beats the bat of Miller, a dot ball. Just one more single from the over. RR 21/3 after 5 overs
David Miller is the new batsman in, the replacement of Ben Stokes. Miller gets off the mark with a single. Shivam Dube on the crease, he faces two dot deliveries. RR 18/3 after 4 overs
Kagiso Rabada introduced into the attack, Sanju Samson on strike. FOUR! Rabada bowls that one on pads and Samson works it towards deep mid-wicket for a boundary. WICKET! Rabada forces Samson to drive and he edges it to first slip. RR return the favour by losing their top order batsman early in powerplay over. RR 17/3 after 3.3 overs
Sanju Samson is the new batsman in but he is off strile. WICKET! Buttler surprised by the one nipping back in. A faint edge and Rishabh Pant holds on to it. Chris Woakes gets two wickets in his second over after getting hit for two boundaries. This is the kind of start Delhi Wanted. RR 13/2 after 3 overs
Avesh Khan opens the bowling from other end, just two runs from his over. Chris Woakes continues, Manan Vohra takes him on. Consecutive boundaries for Vohra. WICKET! Vohra tries to play the lofted shot again but this time did not get timing on it. Kagiso Rabada takes an easy catch. RR 13/1 after 2.4 overs
Joss Buttler and Manan Vohra open the chase for Rajasthan as Chris Woakes restarts the proceedings with the ball. Both the batsmen open their accounts with singles but in the end, it's a good start for Delhi. Just three runs from the over. RR: 3/0 (1 over)
Chetan Sakariya bowls the final over of the innings. Chris Woakes gets a single off the first ball. Kagiso Rabada is the new batsman in. Rabada digs out the yorker, just a single. Sakariya keeps Woakes quiet, just a single. Rabada goes for the lofted shot but barely got past the 30-yard circle. A couple of runs. FOUR! Lucky boundary for Delhi. Inside edge off Rabada's bat goes to the fine leg boundary. A couple of runs to end the innings. DC 147/8 after 20 overs
R Ashwin comes to bat. FOUR! Ashwin hits the short ball over short third man fielder for a boundary. Good start to his innings. Ashwin fails to get bat on the next ball. Ashwin plays in the gap, gets a couple of runs. Mustafizur bowls a wide outside the off stump. RUN OUT! Ashwin fails to make his ground. Another one bites the dust. DC 136/8 after 19 overs
Mustafizur Rahman continues. Tom Curran gets a boundary off the first ball. Delhi need more of those. WICKET! That is an excellent yorker from Mustafizur. Curran departs for 21. DC 128/7 after 18.2 overs
Chetan Sakariya to bowl in the death overs, comes round the wicket. FOUR! Chris Woakes guides the ball past the short third man fielder for a boundary. Woakes gets a single. Tom Curran mistimes again, gets just a single. Woakes backs away but Sakariya follows him. He plays the ball towards mid-on, gets a single. Sakariya finishes off with a yorker, just a single. DC 124/6 after 18 overs
Mustafizur Rahman back in attack, Chris Woakes on strike. FOUR! Woakes hits it over covers and beats the fielder on the boundary. Good start to the over for Delhi. He gets a single off the slower delivery. Another slower ball, Tom Curran plays a dot ball. Curran miscues but the ball lands safely, a couple of runs. Faster delivery from Mustafizur, Curran gets beaten. A single to end the over. DC 115/6 after 17 overs
Tom Curran gets a couple of runs off the last ball of Chris Morris' over. Rahul Tewatia continues. Chris Woakes is the new batsman. Two English all-rounders in the middle. Woakes gets off the mark with a single. Curran rotates the strike as well. A dot ball to follow. Woakes comes down the wicket but finds the same fielder, another dot ball. Woakes goes back into the crease and gets a single. A couple of runs to Woakes to end the over. DC 107/6 after 16 overs
Chris Morris back in attack, Tom Curran misses out on the short and wide delivery, a dot ball. FOUR! Short ball from Morris and Curran plays it towards deep mid-wicket for a boundary. Curran takes a single off the next one. Lalit Yadav hits the wide delivery and manages an underedge, a dot ball. WICKET! Tewatia takes a good catch running back. Lalit Yadav fails to hit it over deep mid-on fielder. DC 100/6 after 14.5 overs
Rahul Tewatia into the attack. Lalit Yadav gets beaten off the first three deliveries trying to slog. He gets a single off the fourth delivery. Good comeback from Tewatia after a 20-run over. Tom Curran is the new batsman. He gets off the mark with a single. Another dot ball to end the over. DC 95/5 after 14 overs
FOUR! Lalit Yadav sweeps and beats the deep square leg fielder. Third boundary for the debutant. A single to end the over. Yadav needs to take responsibility here. DC need to get past 160 to give themselves a chance of winning this match. DC 93/5 after 13 overs
Riyan Parag back in attack with his side arm action. Three singles off the first three balls. RUN OUT! Parag has been phenomenal in the field. Pant tries to take a quick single but Parag pulls off a direct hit to get the big wicket. Pant departs for 51. Delhi are in trouble here. DC 88/5 after 12.4 overs
Mustafizur Rahman back in attack. Lalit Yadav goes for a big shot but Riyan Parag robs him of a maximum. Amazing effort from Parag as he saves 5 runs for his team on the boundary. Mustafizur beats Pant with a faster delivery. A single taken off the next ball. He follows it up with a wide. Lalit gets a single, Pant back on strike. This is turning out to be a good partnership for Delhi. FOUR! Pant manages to beat Parag on the boundary. Fifty for Delhi skipper. His first of the season. DC 85/4 after 12 overs
Rahul Tewatia into the attack. FOUR! Rishabh Pant beats the square fielder and gets a boundary off the first ball of the over. FOUR! This time he hits it square off the fielder. He is leading Delhi's batting in tough times. FOUR! Pant makes it three in a row. Tewatia is paying the price for bowling short to Pant. He works the ball towards on side, gets a couple of runs. Misfield off the next delivery, Pant gets another couple of runs. FOUR! Chetan Sakariya misfields on the boundary and Pant gets fourth boundary of the over. 20 runs from Tewatia's first over. Much-needed one for Delhi. DC 77/4 after 11 overs
Jaydev Unadkat is back to bowl his final over. Pant gets a single. Lalit Yadav finds it hard to knock the ball around. He takes a single after facing three dot balls. Delhi will not mind that as Unadkat has been the premier wicket-taker for Rajasthan. Unadkat slips while landing but gets up quickly to bowl the final delivery. A single to end the over. A fantastic spell from Unadkat. Three wickets and just 14 runs from the over. DC 57/4 after 10 overs
Riyan Parag into the attack with new Jadhav-like action. FOUR! Pant gets a boundary as he beets the sweeper cover fielder. Parag follows it up with a wide outside the off stump. Three more singles from the over. DC 54/4 after 9 overs
Debutant Lalit Yadav is the new batsman. He pushes the first ball towards covers, a dot ball. An excellent first over from Mustafizur Rahman. Chris Morris continues. Pant gets a single off the first delivery. FOUR! Lalit Yadav hits the ball towards deep mid-wicket, gets his first boundary. A dot ball to follow. FOUR! Another boundary for Lalit. Two dot balls to finish the over. DC 46/4 after 8 overs
Another left-arm pacer, Mustafizur Rahman into the attack. Rishabh Pant gets a single off the first ball. Marcus Stoinis struggles against Rahman. WICKET! Stoinis beaten by the slower one and Jos Buttler takes an excellent catch inside the 30-yard circle. Delhi in all sorts of trouble here. DC 37/4 after 6.5 overs
Marcus Stoinis is the new man in. Delhi need a partnership here. The top three batsmen are gone. Jaydev Unadkat should complete his spell with the new ball now. DC 36/3 after 6 overs
Jaydev Unadkt continues. FOUR! Unlucky for Unadkat as the edge off Pant's bat goes to the third man boundary. Pant defends the next ball on the front foot. Pant slogs but mistimes, gets a single towards on side. Unadkat beats Rahane with an excellent ball, a dot ball. Caught & bowled! Rahane comes down the wicket, Unadkat drags his length and bowls a slower ball. A simple catch for Unadkat off his own bowling. Another wicket falls. DC 36/3 after 5.5 overs
Chris Morris, the most expensive player in IPL auction into the attack. Ajinkya Rahane finds the gap, gets a couple of runs. A single off the next ball. Pant drives and gets a single. Morris misses his line, a wide. Samson misses the ball as well, another single to Delhi. FOUR! Morris is struggling with his line. Pant gets a boundary. A single more from the over. Expensive over from Morris. DC 31/2 after 5 overs
Skipper Rishabh Pant comes to bat. Unadkat beats him first ball. FOUR! Pant gets off the mark with a boundary towards backward point. Three dot balls to follow. Just one boundary and a key wicket from Unadkat's second over. DC 20/2 after 4 overs
Jaydev Unadkat gets another wicket. Shikhar Dhawan tries to play the scoop shot but no power on it. Sanju Samson jumps to his right and takes an excellent catch. Unadkat is on fire with the new ball. Dhawan departs for 9. Both openers who scored fifties in the previous game are back in the hut. Unadkat on a hat-trick. DC 16/2 after 3.1 overs
Chetan Sakariya continues. FOUR! Shikhar Dhawan punishes a mediocre ball from Sakariya hitting it through covers. Dhawan takes a single off the next ball. Ajinkya Rahane gets off the mark with a single. Dhawan rotates the strike. FOUR! Rahane gets his first boundary. Expensive over from Sakariya. DC 16/1 after 3 overs
Another left-arm pacer, Jaydev Unadkat into the attack. Two singles off the first two balls. Unadkat bowls two dot balls. So far, RR bowlers have been spot on with their lengths. Dhawan takes a single. WICKET! Prithvi Shaw fails to pick the short ball and gives an easy catch to backward point fielder. Fantastic start for Unadkat, Shaw out for 2. DC 5/1 after 2 overs
Chetan Sakariya beats Prithvi Shaw on the first delivery with the one that swung away. Sakariya follows it up with an in-swinger. A huge shout from the bowler but the umpire says no. Samson decides against taking the review. Shaw works the ball towards on side, takes a single. Shikhar Dhawan plays the ball towards backward point, a dot ball. Another dot ball to follow. A single to end the over. DC 2/0 after 1 over
Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan to open the innings for Delhi Capitals. Left-arm pacer Chetan Sakariya who took threee wickets on his debut will be opening the bowling for Rajasthan Royals.
Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan to open the innings for Delhi Capitals. Left-arm pacer Chetan Sakariya who took threee wickets on his debut will be opening the bowling for Rajasthan Royals.
DC XI: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ajinkya Rahane, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Lalit Yadav, Kagiso Rabada, Tom Curran, Avesh Khan
RR XI: Manan Vohra, Sanju Samson(w/c), David Miller, Jos Buttler, Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Mustafizur Rahman
For RR, as expected David Miller replaces an injured Ben Stokes. In the bowling department, Jaydev Unadkat replaces leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal.
For DC, Kagiso Rabada walks into the team, replaces Shimron Hetmyer. Also, Lalit Yadav makes his debut replacing Amit Mishra.
Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson wins toss, elects to bowl first.
Shikhar Dhawan has six half-centuries against Rajasthan Royals. The Delhi Capitals opener has scored 547 runs from 19 innings at an average of 32.17. The left-handed batsman is in good form as well having scored 85 against Chennai Super Kings in the previous game.
In IPL 2020, Delhi Capitals won both the games against Rajasthan Royals. In both games, Rajasthan failed to chase down the total. With Sanju Samson in form, Rajasthan will back themselves to chase this time around.
Hello and welcome to Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals live blog. Jos Buttler is likely to return to the opening position in absence of Ben Stokes. Buttler has a good record against Delhi and a strike rate nearing 200.