Punjab Kings, on the other hand, will be high on confidence after inflicting a morale-boosting eight-wicket defeat on table toppers GT. (File)IPL 2022, DC vs RR Highlights: Opener Jos Buttler struck his third century of the ongoing IPL to power Rajasthan Royals to a 15-run win over Delhi Capitals in a drama-filled match on Friday.
Brief Scores
Rajasthan Royals: 222 for 2 in 20 overs (Jos Buttler 116, Devdutt Padikkal 54, Sanju Samson 46 not out; Khaleel Ahmed 1/47, Mustafizur Rahman 1/43)
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Match EndedIndian Premier League, 2022 - Match 34
Delhi Capitals
207/8 (20.0)vs
Rajasthan Royals
222/2 (20.0)Match Ended ( Match 34 )
Rajasthan Royals beat Delhi Capitals by 15 runs
Rajasthan Royals beat Delhi Capitals by 15 runs
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IPL 2022 DC vs RR playing XI, match prediction, pitch report: As both teams eye a return to winning ways, the batting unit that does well could be the difference. (Twitter/IPL)
When Lalit Yadav sliced a ball skywards, three fielders, none of them calling for the catch, sprinted in. One was Yuzvendra Chahal, the bowler; the second was Devdutt Padikkal from covers, and third Shimron Hetmyer from mid-off. Then, like a well-choreographed dance scene, they suddenly stopped and watched the ball plunge into the turf. It was a difficult catch to judge for all three and all three had to cover a fair distance, but memories of the catch they had dropped might have been fresh, thus holding them back from diving full-pelt . Hetmyer had let off Rishabh Pant in the ninth over, off Obed McCoy at deep midwicket. Pant was again the beneficiary when he misjudged a skier at deep fine leg, the ball eventually bouncing off the stretched palms, off the bowling of Prasidh Krishna. So both were understandably catch-shy. Padikkal’s case was baffling as he had clung onto a skyscraper from Pant. He too had misread the ball’s dip, but did not take the eyes off the ball and adjusted well enough to hold on. But a skier on a dewy Wankhede night was a fielder’s nightmare.
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Obed McCoy to bowl the last over of the match. Powell starts the over with a huge six. Woww! he hits another one for a maximum. That's three in three for Powell. What a hit!! What is happening? Delhi batters are chatting with the umpires, they ask for a no-ball. Wicket on the final ball. Rajasthan win by 15 runs.
"Sanju! Eranginaana, inda pakkam, anda pakkam paathuko!” (If he charges down the track, look out for either side), basically saying he might fire the ball down leg or off side if Rishabh Pant charges out at him. It was the sixth over of the chase, and just after Ashwin had taken out Sarfraz Khan first ball. But Ashwin didn’t really give Pant a chance to charge out by bowling two from well short of length - Pant whipped the first one for a four and turned the next for a couple. Finally, off the last ball of the over, Ashwin looped it up fuller on length, drawing Pant forward, and nearly had his man too. Pant lunged but was beaten in flight, and just about stretched to push-drive it through mid-off. At the end of the fourth over, Kris Srikkanth had a bit of advice to Sanju Samson. “Dei! Sanju! Ashwin ey kondu vaada! (Oi! Bring on Ashwin!) Samson listened to him an over later and was rewarded with a wicket. As soon as Srikkanth said that, R Sridhar, former fielding coach of India, said, he would bring the best bowler of the team on, which is Ashwin. Srikkanth didn’t bat an eyelid: “Sridhar! Best bowler of the team is Yuzvendra Chahal!” Sridhar tried saying that Ashwin’s discipline has been helping Chahal pick up wickets and Srikkanth decided to turn peaceful and mumbled out some sweet nothings.
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Prasidh takes the wicket of Lalit Yadav, and Samson does the rest by taking an easy catch. Lalit goes back to the pavilion after scoring 37 runs. DC are 187/7 after 19 overs.
Powell slashes it this time and gets a six off Boult. He hits another six, goes straight this time. That's two sixes in an over. DC are 187/6 after 18 overs.
Chahal to bowl the 17th over for Rajasthan. Chahal to Lalit Yadav walks down the wicket and hits a six against Chahal. That's attacking batting from him. DC are 172/6 after 17 overs.
Thakur pulls it hard and gets a six against Boult. What a shot by Lord Shardul. But, wait!!! Shardul goes back to the pavilion. He gets run out. Delhi in trouble now. Lalit hits a boundary now. DC are 162/6 after 16 overs.
Chahal with a breakthrough now. It's a good length delivery, Axar tries to sweep the ball and departs. That's a very good delivery by Chahal. DC are 131/5 after 13 overs.
Prasidh Krishna has his man. Rishabh Pant departs for 44. Padikkal hangs on to a skier. This was in the air for a long time and Padikkal has managed to pull it off. Delhi Capitals need 99 runs in 48 balls.
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David Warner’s bluff did not pay off. He had just edged an attempted flick—he backed away so far that his feet nearly hugged the tramline on his leg-side—to the wicket-keeper. The bowler, Prasidh Krishna, was so certain about the edge that he did not bother to turn back and appeal, and rushed to the embrace of his onrushing teammates.
But the Delhi Capitals opener pretended as though nothing had happened—as though the appeal was pseudo. He gestured the “don’t run” signal towards the non-striker Prithvi Shaw, and seemed to brush his thigh-pad to indicate that the ball had ricocheted off his protective equipment. All this while, Warner wore an expressionless face, like a method actor in a Konstantin Stanislavski movie. For a fleeting second, even Prasidh stood confused, and seemed to ask Warner why he was lingering on. And then they suddenly remembered that there was an umpire in the middle, to whom Prasidh implored than appealed. He duly lifted his index finger and Warner had to go. But not without some more acting—he shook his head, caressed his thigh pad twice more, and even lipped something at Prasidh before dragging off to the dugout, muttering something to himself, as if he had been punished for some crime he had not committed. No Oscar for this, Warner.
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Another life for Rishabh Pant, this time Yuzvedra Chahal drops it at the fine leg. The extra bounce from Prasidh has done the trick for Pant, it takes the top edge and Chahal drops a regular chance.
A one-handed six by Pant. Riyan Parag bowls with a slingy action and the Delhi Capitals skipper has launched it over long-on with his right hand. 22 runs came from Parag's over. Delhi Capitals need 102 runs in 54 balls.
Riyan Parag into the attack and Rishabh Pants welcomes him with a massive six over mid-wicket. It was a full toss from Parag, and Pant accepted the gift gleefully.
Prithvi Shaw holes out Trent Boult in the deep. Another wicket for R Ashwin. Prithvi rocks back and tries to clear the fence on the off side, but Boult takes a good running catch.
One-handed six from Prithvi Shaw. He first welcomes McCoy with a boundary and then plays a one-handed lofted shot over the cover for a maximum. McCoy followed it with a five no ball. It missed everyone, terrible delivery from the lanky Caribbean. He followed it with two wides. Shaw fails to connect the low full toss. Next ball, McCoy, strays down the pads of Rishabh Pant and he glances to the fine leg fence. Hetmyer dropped Pant at long-on and it went for another boundary. 26 came from McCoy's second over.
One of these have to go after the spinners. They can't chase this imposing total by negotiating their eight overs. It has been 25 balls, without a boundary.
Only five came from Yuzvendra Chahal's first over. He gave away literally nothing in his first over.
A left-handed helicopter from Rishabh Pant. The boundary also brings up 50 Delhi Capitals.
Ashwin strikes the first ball. Sarfaraz departs for 1. Sarfaraz wanted to take on the off-spinner and perishes in the process. He miscues the shot and offers a simple catch near square leg to Prasidh Krishna.
4,4 and OUT. Prasidh Krishna has the last laugh, and he gives a send off to Warner as well. Prasidh cramps Warner for the room, and he has nowhere to go as the ball keeps following him as he backs away, takes the outside edge and carries nicely to Samson.
Delhi Capitals openers have started on fourth gear. Prithvi and Warner scored one boundary each off Obed McCoy's first over. Ten came from McCoy's first over.
David Warner flashes hard and out it over the third man for a maximum. The chase is certainly on.
Prithvi Shaw and Delhi Capitals are off and running. Eight came from Shaw's first over.
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There were many astonishing hits from Jos Buttler but he produced one absolute stunner from an awkward position in the 19th over that startled even his team-mate Shimron Hetmyer, whose eyebrows shot up. It was a fairly good delivery from the left-armer Mustafizur Rahman, full well outside off and angling further away; for most of its trajectory and deviation, it seemed Buttler wasn’t in a right position but somehow he leaned across and didn’t just flail at it for a one or two but actually got his bottom hand working over-time to scoop it over long-off. “I tell myself before the ball that I have done all the hard work in preparation and I just need to trust my body to do its thing,” Buttler said in a RR video about his pre-ball routine when he gets out to bat. His instinct, and above all his amazing skills allowed him to trust his tired body to smash that six. He would get out off the final ball of that over, holing out to long-on, and Shimron Hetmyer would wait for him to reach the ropes before stepping out with a smile and a shake of head in awe and appreciation at the approaching Buttler.
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A splendid 65-ball 116 from Jos Buttler helped Rajasthan Royals to put on 222/2 in 20 overs, the highest total in the IPL 2022. Buttler was involved in an excellent 155-run stand for the first wicket. Devdutt scored a fine 54. Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson ended the innings with a flourishing 19-ball 46. For Delhi Capitals, Khaleel Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman bag a wicket apiece. Stay tuned for the chase!
Jos Buttler departs for 116. Fizz gets Buttler as he holes out in the deep. Warner makes no mistake with the catch. What a jaw-dropping knock this was from Jos Buttler.
Fiz to Buttler, and he hits it for a boundary. He is toying with the field. He followed up with a six just over long-off's hand. 200 is up for Rajasthan in 18.4 overs.
This is ridiculous batting from Sanju Samson. He has gone after Khaleel Ahmed, plundered 20 from the over. Then Khaleel dropped a sitter.
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Don’t be greedy with you part-time bowler, a sacred white-ball truism it is. Whereas on a good day, or an IPL night, he could be deputed for a couple of tight overs, clinging for too long could backfire. Like Delhi Capitals’ indulging of part-time off-spinner Lalit Yadav. He bowled two thrifty overs upfront—conceding only six runs. But Delhi Capitals could not resist the gamble (or greed) to squeeze an extra over from him or a surface that was drier and holding up a trifle. The ploy turned not just counterproductive, but catastrophic. The Jos Buttler he ran into in the 13th over was different to the Buttler that he had strangled in the power-play. He was like a deer shoved into a lion’s den. Buttler nailed him for a couple of sixes and a four in the eighteen-run over.
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Make that 3 in the tournament for Jos Buttler. He leaps in joy, and receives a standing ovation from the Wankhede crowd. What a splendid season he is having.
Excellent review and Delhi Capitals have their first breakthrough. Khaleen Ahmed breaks the 155-run opening stand. Devdutt departs for 54.
Eighteen came from Kukdeep's third over. Jos Buttler is batting on 99. This is the highest opening stand for the RR in the IPL history. It is also the highest opening partnership in this season yet!
It is almost out of here. What a show Jos Buttler is putting on. First ball was heaved over the mid-wicket. Then it was a short-arm jab straight over the Kuldeep's head.
Devdutt Padikkal has brought up his fifty. His first of the season. He has played a perfect second foil for Buttler but has been striking at 165.62. Nine runs came from Axar's second over.
There's no stopping Jos Buttler now. He is tearing apart Lalit Yadav. He plundered eighteen runs from Lalit Yadav's last over.
Padikkal launches Lalit Yadav for a maximum and the 100-run stand is up in the 11th over for the Rajasthan Royals oepners.
Jos Buttler plays an aggressive cover drive on the front foot for 4 runs. It brings up another half-century for Jos Buttler, he has been unstoppable in the tournament. Jos Buttler's last six innings: 100, 70*, 13, 54, 103, 53* and counting tonight,
Through much of the power-play overs, Rajasthan Royals were living on the edge. Rather, living off the edge. Both Devdutt Padikkal, enduring a rough patch, and Jos Buttler, riding a purple patch, were edgy as well as edge-prone against a disciplined Delhi attack. In the first over the energetic Khaleel Ahmed, Jos Buttler twice played and missed the ball, as many times he edged the ball too. Two fours arrived, both off the edge—the first flew over third man, the second hustled beyond the first slip. Padikkal survived a vociferous lbw appeal, before he slashed at a wide ball of his familiar nemesis—Mustafizur Rahman, who had devoured him thrice in 19 balls before this game. The ball screamed off the outside edge, though piercing the narrow gap between short third man and backward point. Capitals were made to curse their wretched fortune, as Padikkal hammered successive boundaries off Rahman, before Buttler reacquainted with his destructive touch, blasting Ahmed for a pair of sixes in the sixth over.
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Jos Buttler hammered SHardul Thakur for a 107m long six. It was a length ball outside the off stump and Buttler puts it away for a monstrous six.
Buttler finds his dancing shoes now. A shimmy down the track reaches to the ball and hits it over the bowler's head for a maximum. He followed it up with a boundary. Fifteen runs came from Kuldeep's second over.
97-meter long six from Devdutt Padikkal. It was right in the arc and Padikkal puts it into the stand. He followed with a boundary. Another productive over for Rajasthan, 12 runs came from Axar Patel's first over.
50-run stand is up for Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal. It has been a slow start but they are growing in confidence. Seven runs came from Kuldeep's first over.
Jos Buttler has landed at Wankhede. Length ball, Buttler clears his front leg again and heaves it over mid-wicket. The Orange Cap holder is in the mood again. Fifteen runs came from that Khaleel's over. After the end of the powerplay, Rajasthan are 44/0 in six overs.
You can't keep Jos Buttler quiet for long. He welcomed Khaleel with a big six over mid-wicket. It was tad fuller and Buttler clears his front leg and put it in the stands for the first maximum of Rajasthan's innings.
Lalit Yadav has bowled two overs in the powerplay and has given away only seven runs.
Devdutt Padikkal has found his feet after a shaky start. The southpaw has smashed hat-trick of boundaries against Mustafizur Rahaman. First one was a streaky, but he followed up with a couple of splendid cover drives. Fourteen came from Fiz's first over, Devdutt has injected some momentum to Royals innings. Interestingly, on this day, last year, the yu=oungster then playing for RCB smashed his maiden IPL century against Rajasthan Royals.
Tidy start by off-spinner Lalit Yadav. Only three came from his first over. So far, it has been excellent bowling by the Delhi Capitals bowlers. They have kept the Rajasthan openers quiet.
Rajasthan skipper Sanju Samson is playing his 100th game for the Royals.
Thakur wasted a review. Pant was not convinced but he went for it. It was Pitched outside leg and was striking Padikkal on the thigh. Good first over from Shardul, only one came from his over that too a leg bye. Shardul Thakur has dismissed Devdutt Padikkal in 3 out of 4 innings.
A short third man, in sort of a deepish gully position, and another one not too far to his right, along with a slip were stationed for Jos Buttler in the first over by the left-arm seamer Khaleel Ahmed. Buttler has been in such form this season, cutting and driving, that some doubts had to be seeded in his mind and this was a good move from DC think tank. Particularly, because, Khaleel also can shape the ball back into Buttler for the bluff-move. The balls kept slanting across, Buttler, aware of those two fielders for his cut-slash kept leaving and suddenly one arrived from short of length. Perhaps because of those two fielders, Buttler chose to pull but it was well outside off and he sort of tried to pull out of the shot but it was too late. Luckily, for him, it flew over slips. Off the last ball of the over, came another angler, and Buttler poked it just wide of the lunging slip. Khaleel had his hands on his head, but it was a good over that made Buttler think and doubt himself.
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Khaleel is putting up a masterclass by beating Buttler thrice, The fourth ball took an outside edge, and it flies over the slip cordon for a first boundary. The final ball was an excellent outswinger, found the outside edge, but it raced away to the third man fence along the carpet. Outstanding bowling from Khaleel Ahmed. Eight came from the first over.
Rajasthan Royals openers Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal are out in the middle. Jos Buttler is the 'Orange Cap' holder. For Delhi Capitals, Khaleel Ahmed will start the proceedings. Here we go!
Powerplay (1-6 Ov): 41/2
Middle Overs (7-15 Ov): 58/3
Death Overs (16-20 Ov): 59/1
The average first innings total at the Wankhede Stadium this season has been 158, the lowest among all four venues. Defending totals seems to be the trend at the Wankhede with two games on the trot going in favour of teams batting first.
The two teams have fared off against each other 24 times, with both sides equally winning 12 of them.
In this year's IPL, teams batting second have been more successful until now, winning 18 and losing 14 matches but all of Rajasthan's four wins this season have come when batting first. The Royals have the best economy rate in the Powerplay, so far this season and will be up against an in form David Warner and Prithvi Shaw, who has notched up 4 consecutive 50-run stands for the opening wicket.
Rajasthan Royals XI: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Shimron Hetmyer, Karun Nair, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy, Yuzvendra Chahal
Delhi Capitals XI: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Rovman Powell, Sarfaraz Khan, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman, Khaleel Ahmed
Delhi Capitals have won the toss, and they have decided to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals. Both the teams are unchanged.