New Delhi: In difficulty? Call Mitchell Starc. This is exactly what Oxar Patel did when things have become tense. With only 9 points to defend in the final, he turned to his typing bowler – and Starc is delivered.
Yorker After Yorker, Starc kept the high pressure and the fans on the edge. Dhruv Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer managed to survive heat but did not find the necessary limits. The match ended with exciting equality, pushing the competition in the first Great of IPL 2025.
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Starc came back for the Super Over, taking up the ball with ice in its veins. Royals Rajasthan only managed 11 points, parameters Delhi capital A target of 12.
Enter KL Rahul and Tristan StubbsWith Sandeep Sharma Bowling.
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Rahul started with a couple, followed him with a net border and gave the strike after a simple. Stubbs did not need a second invitation – he launched Sandeep in the stands, sealing a dramatic victory for the capitals of Delhi.
It was their first home victory this season, and it brought them back immediately at the top of the table. While the players celebrated, the “Dilli Re, Roar Macha!” The anthem echoed through the Kotla – a perfect end for a night of pulsating cricket.
Sandeep failed “two ends”
The tension was palpable in the pirogue of the Royals Rajasthan. Sanju Samson had a frustrated look behind the stumps while Sandeep Sharma – one of their most reliable questions to death – lost his rhythm when it mattered the most. Responsible for bowling the final, Sandeep’s six legal deliveries have extended to a chaotic ball at 11: WD 0 WD WD WD N1 4 6 1 1 – A rare crisis of the generally reliable palente.
Delhi Capitals finished his sleeves at 188/5, and the atmosphere in their camp was optimistic. Smiles lit their canoe, with players clearly satisfied with what looked like a competitive total.
The opener Abishek Porel, who set the tone early with the bat, seemed to be confident in the cat halfway through the broadcasters.
“The plan was to go hard in the power game, which would facilitate the task later. If you play more slowly, it is useful on this counter and I hope that our what else is successful. A very good total on this counter,” he said.
But the Royals of Rajasthan had other ideas.
They came out of all firearms, dismantling Delhi’s bowling attack from the start. Yashasvi Jaiswal set the tone with a lively 51, while Sanju Samson, before retiring at 31, assured that the momentum remained firmly in the corner of Rajasthan.
And then came Nitish Rana, who played an astonishing blow of 51 balls of 28 balls to give a big house, but the star Pace Starc brought things back in favor of Delhi.
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When the match went to a super more, Sandeep ended up under the spotlight – a chance of redemption after a forgetable final.
But the pressure has mounted and the story was repeated.
Sandeep had trouble holding his nerve, not having applied real pressure. Delhi Capital hunted the target in four deliveries, sealing a memorable victory and leaving Sandeep with another outing to think.
Kl Rahul Mania
“Bhaiya, ordinary t-shirt hai ya kissi player ke naam wali jersey?” – A curious fan asked a t-shirt seller parked outside the Arun Jaitley stadium, just an hour and a half before the shock of the Royals of Delhi’s Rajasthan.
The seller replied: “Sirf Kl Rahul Ki Hai.” A fan bought it. Then another. Soon, an impatient line of customers has formed, each asking for different sizes, because the buzz around Kl Rahul seized the scene outside the stadium.
Interestingly, the jersey wore the colors of Delhi’s capital, but had “Kl Rahul” and the number 01 printed at the back – a curious view, but a clear sign of the mania surrounding the star paste.
Inside the Kotla, it was a dynamic sea of ​​blue and red.
The atmosphere reached a crescendo when the stadium DJ dropped the “Dilli Re, Roar Macha!” Anthem – And just at the right time, KL Rahul cleaned his leg before to send a lift ball from Tushar Deshpande on a long time. The crowd broke out.
Rahul’s Knock was entertaining, although not praised. He scored 38 points out of 32 deliveries before falling to Jofra Archer – in particular, the first time that Acher managed to reject Rahul in the history of IPL.
And he also showed his composure in the Super, delivering under pressure and giving fans a treat to look at.
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“We may have become too relaxed in the intermediate phase,” admitted Axar Patel after the undefeated race of the Capitals of Delhi was interrupted by the Indians of Mumbai during their previous release.
Before the confrontation against the Royals of Rajasthan, a quick glance at the IPL 2025 statistics of Axar painted a disturbing image: 67 points, 0 counters in 5 games – far from the expected impact of the captain and the Allrounder star.
Strongly hole for throwing his counter against Mumbai, Axar came out to a mixture of pressure and waiting. But in the midst of the noisy songs of “Bapu! Bapu!” Echoing around the Kotla, he replied as a real leader – breaking an ardent 34 on only 14 bullets, with four limits and two.
The crowd, however, broke out when he had an impact with the ball. Coming just when his team needed a breakthrough, Axar cleaned Riyan Parag for 8 – his first IPL 2025 counter. The dismissal came at a crucial stadium, especially after Sanju Samson had to retire on the 31st.
Axar had finally delivered both with Bat and Ball – and the faithful of Kotla made sure that he knew it.
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