The David Warner-led Delhi Capitals clinched a low-scoring thriller towards 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. But an inexplicable batting method during which SRH by no means appeared to dominate led to their downfall as they had been restricted to 137/6. Despite 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 Super 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’ listing with a tally of 405 in seven video games. DC skipper David Warner is third within the listing with 306 runs in seven video games. In the main wicket-taker’s misplaced, RCB’s Mohammed Siraj and Punjab Kings’ Arshdeep Singh have the joint-highest tally – 13.

Talking in regards to 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).

But 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 at hand 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