Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH in Vizak

Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH in Vizak

The Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH was played on Wed 8th May 2019 in Dr Rajshekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. DC won the toss and elected to bowl first.

SRH’S Inning in Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH in Vizak

SRH started well as Guptil batted aggressively but W Saha couldn’t do much and departed in the first ball of the 4th over bowled by Ishant Sharma and SRH scored 54-1 in the powerplay. Guptil who looked in great touch got out just after the powerplay scoring 36 runs (1 four, 4 sixes) of 19 balls by Amit Mishra. After a good start SRH lost the momentum by losing wickets at regular intervals where the batsman couldn’t convert the start they got into a big inning where the partnership of 34 runs in 7 overs between Manish Pandey and Williamson break the momentum and Manish Pandey got out to Keemo Paul after scoring 30 runs (3 fours) of 36 balls. And Williamson in the 16th over bowled by Ishant got out on 28 runs (2 fours)  of 27 balls. Then Shankar’s 25 runs (2 fours, 2 sixes) of 11 balls and Nabi’s 20 runs (3 fours, 1 six) of 13 balls helped the team to set a total of 162-8 in 20 overs.

The bowlers bowled really well to restrict them to 162 by taking wickets at regular intervals where Keemo Paul picked 3 wickets, Ishant picked 2 wickets, Amit Mishra and Boult got 1 wicket each.

DC’S Inning in Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH in Vizak

 Prithvi Shaw and Sikhar Dhawan gave a good start to the team and scored 55 runs in the powerplay without losing any wicket. But Sikhar Dhawan couldn’t create any impact as he got out scoring 17 runs 3 fours of 16 balls by Deepak Hooda in the 8th over. Prithvi Shaw batted fearlessly and completed his half century and scored 56 runs (6 fours, 2 sixes) of 38 balls and was sent back to pavilion in the 11th over bowled by Khaleel Ahmed. And with the wicket of Prithvi Shaw Delhi continued to lose wickets but in between Rishab Pant played a extra odinary inning in which shifted the momentum towards Delhi Capitals and helped the team to win the match by 2 wickets with his 49 runs (2 fours, 5 sixes) of 21 balls and Delhi scored 165-8 in 19.5 overs. The match was much competitive and the bowlers bowled well and took the match at till the last over where Bhuvneswar Kumar, Rashid Khan and Khaleel Ahmed picked 2 wickets each and Deepak Hooda got one wicket.

Rishab Pant got the Player of the match award for his match winning performance in the Eliminator of VIVO IPL Season 12, DC vs SRH in Vizak.