Delhi’s nose cut again at home(Delhi’s)

IPL: Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi  (Delhi’s) Capitals faced each other in the 48th match of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2025. In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Delhi Capitals had to face defeat against Kolkata. Kolkata Knight Riders defeated hosts DC by 14 runs. In response to KKR’s 204 runs, DC’s team could score only 190 runs. In this way, Delhi team had to face their third defeat at home. Delhi has played 4 matches at Arun Jaitley Stadium so far and has won only one. On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders got their first win after 3 matches. In the last 3 matches, KKR had to face 2 defeats while one match was washed out due to rain.

Faf du Plessis scored the highest 62 runs for Delhi. Sunil Narine took the highest 3 wickets for KKR. At the same time, Varun Chakraborty took the wickets of 2 batsmen. Anukul Roy, Andre Russell and Vaibhav Arora got one success each.

Rinku and Raghuvanshi played a great innings

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 204 runs for the loss of 9 wickets on the basis of a half-century partnership between Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Rinku Singh after being invited to bat first. Raghuvanshi played an innings of 44 runs in 32 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes while Rinku Singh scored 36 runs in 25 balls. Rinku hit three fours and a six. Raghuvanshi and Rinku shared a 61-run partnership for the fifth wicket, which helped the team score 200+ runs.

Kolkata’s team could not score many runs in the death overs. Delhi gave only 45 runs in the last 5 overs. Andre Russell hit two consecutive fours to Chameera in the 19th over and then hit a six to Starc in the last over to take his team past 200 runs. However, Starc sent Rovman Powell and Anukul Roy to the pavilion on 2 consecutive balls in the last over while Russell was run out on the next ball. KKR opener Sunil Narine contributed 27 and Rahmanullah Gurbaz contributed 26 runs. At the same time, captain Ajinkya Rahane played an innings of 26 runs. Russell was dismissed after scoring 17 runs off 9 balls.

Mitchell Starc was DC’s most successful bowler

In bowling for Delhi, fast bowler Mitchell Starc took three wickets for 43 runs. Captain Axar Patel took two wickets for 27 runs. Leg spinner Vipraj Nigam took two wickets. Dushmantha Chameera took one wicket. Mukesh Kumar and Kuldeep Yadav could not take any wicket.