The David Warner-led Delhi Capitals clinched a low-scoring thriller in opposition to SunRisers Hyderabad on the latter’s home-ground in an IPL 2023 recreation on Monday. Off-spin allrounder Sundar (4-0-28-3) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4-0-11-2) uncovered the batting frailties of Delhi Capitals’ within the first half of the sport to limit them to 144/9 after David Warner opted to bat. However an inexplicable batting strategy wherein SRH by no means seemed to dominate led to their downfall as they had been restricted to 137/6. Regardless of the win, DC are nonetheless on the backside of the 10-team league with 4 factors (NRR -0.961) in seven video games. SRH are simply above them with 4 factors (NRR -0.725) in seven video games. Chennai Tremendous Kings lead the factors desk with 10 factors (NRR +0.662) from seven video games.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Faf du Plessis lead the very best run-scorers’ checklist with a tally of 405 in seven video games. DC skipper David Warner is third within the checklist with 306 runs in seven video games. Within the main wicket-taker’s misplaced, RCB’s Mohammed Siraj and Punjab Kings’ Arshdeep Singh have the joint-highest tally – 13.

Speaking concerning the recreation, having misplaced half of their aspect for 85 runs in 14.1 overs, SRH’s restoration was led by Heinrich Klaasen (31; 19b, 3×4, 1×6) and Sundar who got here up with 15-ball 24 not out (3x4s).

Nevertheless it proved not sufficient as Anrich Nortje (4-0-33-2) dismissed his South African temmate, earlier than Mukesh Kumar bowled a terrific final over to defend 13 runs handy Delhi a slender but thrilling second consecutive win of the season.

Delhi Capitals regularly strengthened their grip on the sport by taking 4 wickets — Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi (15), Abhishek Sharma (5) and Aiden Markam (3) in fast succession within the center overs, and permitting a mere three fours between overs 5 to fifteen which highlighted SRH’s plight.

With PTI inputs