Using on debutant Jake Fraser-McGurk’s fifty and Kuldeep Yadav’s sensible 3-wicket haul, Delhi Capitals returned to successful methods with a 6-wicket win over Lucknow Tremendous Giants within the twenty sixth match of IPL 2024.
Chasing 168, DC misplaced the wicket of David Warner (8) cheaply earlier than Prithvi Shaw and Fraser-McGurk added 39 runs for the second wicket. Ravi Bishnoi broke the stand by dismissing Shaw for 32. It was adopted by a 77-run stand between Fraser-McGurk and Rishabh Pant.
Fraser-McGurk scored 55 runs with the assistance of two fours and 5 sixes earlier than being dismissed by Naveen-ul-Haq. Six runs later, Pant returned to the dressing room for 41 earlier than Tristan Stubbs and Shai Hope shared an unbeaten 24-run stand to take DC house.
Earlier within the sport, an unbeaten half-century from Ayush Badoni rescued LSG and helped them get well from a poor begin to publish a aggressive complete of 167/7.
KL Rahul’s choice to bat first was not justified by his teammates early on. Quinton de Kock and Devdutt Padikkal contained in the powerplay after scoring 19 and three respectively. Each the batters have been dismissed by Khaleel Ahmed. Within the eighth over, Kuldeep Yadav despatched again Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran on consecutive deliveries to go away LSG reeling at 66 for 4.
11 runs later, the left-arm spinner struck once more to dismiss Rahul for 39. The likes of Deepak Hooda (10) and Krunal Pandya (3) couldn’t final lengthy both as LSG discovered themselves seven down for simply 94 runs after 13 overs.
Nevertheless, Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan shared an unbeaten 73-run stand to bail their staff out of hassle and guided them to a combating complete. Badoni scored 55 runs off 35 balls whereas Arshad remained unbeaten on 20. For DC, Kuldeep picked up three wickets whereas Khaleel claimed two.
IPL Factors Desk 2024 after the LSG vs DC sport:
| Groups | Mat | Received | Misplaced | Tied | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Rajasthan Royals | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.871 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.528 |
| Chennai Tremendous Kings | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.666 |
| Lucknow Tremendous Giants | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.436 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.344 |
| Gujarat Titans | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.637 |
| Mumbai Indians | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.073 |
| Punjab Kings | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.196 |
| Delhi Capitals | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.975 |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1.124 |
IPL Orange Cap checklist after the LSG vs DC sport:
| Participant | Matches | Inns | Runs | Avg | Sr | 4s | 6s |
| Virat Kohli | 6 | 6 | 319 | 79.75 | 141.78 | 29 | 12 |
| Riyan Parag | 5 | 5 | 261 | 87 | 158.18 | 17 | 17 |
| Shubman Gill | 6 | 6 | 255 | 51 | 151.79 | 19 | 9 |
| Sanju Samson | 5 | 5 | 246 | 82 | 157.69 | 24 | 10 |
| Sai Sudharsan | 6 | 6 | 226 | 37.67 | 127.68 | 23 | 3 |
IPL Purple Cap checklist after the LSG vs DC sport:
| Participant | Matches | Wkts | Avg | 4-fers | 5-fers |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 5 | 10 | 11.9 | – | 1 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 5 | 10 | 13.2 | – | – |
| Mustafizur Rahman | 4 | 9 | 14.22 | 1 | – |
| Khaleel Ahmed | 6 | 9 | 23.44 | – | – |
| Arshdeep Singh | 5 | 8 | 20 | – | – |
