DC vs SRH Highlights and Match Recap, IPL 2019 Eliminator, Full Cricket score: Delhi Capitals win thriller; Sunrisers eliminated

Rishabh Pant is Player of the Match for his 21-ball 49:

Pant: If you are set on this wicket, you need to finish the match. Next time I will try to finish the match. This time I took it very close. If your mindset is negative, you can’t play your shots. You have to have a big over when the target is big. I did not try to hit the ball too hard. I was just trying to time the ball.

Shreyas Iyer, Delhi Capitals captain: I can’t express my emotions. Last two overs was like ‘hell’ to be honest. Amazing feel, I could see the happiness on everyone’s facing. Looking forward to the next match against Chennai and we are not going to be intimidated by any team. Martin Guptill was difficult to control. Mishy bhai with a superb spell. I personally feel that they are those sort of batsmen that you do not tell anything to them. When you stop a batsman like Pant or Prithvi, it hampers their mind and their flow. It was good that both of them came good tonight.

Delhi have made a habit of this late slip-ups during a run-chase. Tonight Paul has saw them through but going forward they have to improve their finishing skills. Against the likes of Chennai and Mumbai, they should not allow the opposition to such late comebacks.

Prithvi Shaw: This is dedicated to my team. They backed me. I was not scoring too many runs in the past few games. I was a bit nervous. Ricky sir, Pravin sir and Sourav sir helped me a lot. I believed in myself to get my form back and I played my natural game. These kind of games I am always nervous. Whenever we need Pant, he is always there. We are going to prepare hard for Chennai.

Kane Williamson, SRH captain: It was one of the surfaces which was going to produce such a match. It was a competitive total. It was going to be quite tricky after the Powerplay. You reflect back on the season and there have number of  occasions when we could not pull of the match from such positions. I thought DC started off very well. They had the momentum going. Small margins really.

This was SRH’s third defeat out of four IPL eliminator matches.

Holding back Khaleel was a wrong move?

Bowling Thampi in 17th over leaving khaleel turned out to be costly. DC make it to the qualifiers 2 for the first time in @IPL. What a season it has been for the youngest IPL team. #IPL #IPL2019 #SRHvDC #BadriBytes

— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath) May 8, 2019

Amit Mishra is the second player to be dismissed ‘Obstructing the Field’ in IPL after Yusuf Pathan (KKR v PW, Ranchi, 2013)

This is the first time that Delhi have won a knockout match in IPL.

Ball 5: FOUR! After all the drama, Khaleel pitches it short and Paul smacks it to deep mid-wicket boundary for  four runs. DC win by 2 wickets. 

DC will meet CSK in Qualifier 2. SRH knocked out

OUT!
Ball 4: Good ball, leaves Mishra, he could not connect and ran blindly, Paul responded, Saha threw it to non-striker’s end but Mishra changed his direction to come in front of the stumps, SRH appealed for the same, took the review, third umpire checked it for any hint of ball taking the edge off the bat and then on field umpire S Ravi said not-out. Kane reached the umpire again and asked him for obstructing the field dismissal. The decision went upstairs again and he is declared out obstructing the field. So much drama going on in the middle. Mishra obs 1(2) Delhi Capitals need 2 runs in 2 balls

Delhi Capitals need 2 runs in 2 balls

Ball 3: Short ball again and Paul hits it to deep in the leg side but only one taken. DC need 2 in 3 balls now.

Well, well, well, another twist in the tale. And now with Mishra, Ishant and Boult to follow, another wicket at this stage will make this game interesting.

Ball 2: Wide outside the off stump and Paul was not able to reach the ball. That is not called wide. DC need 3 off 4.

Ball 1: Khaleel reloads. Short ball, outside the off stump, Mishra hits it to third man and takes a single. DC need 3 off 5 now.

Ball 1: Khaleel to Mishra, he comes round the wicket, slower ball and wide outside the off stump. 1 run to DC. Need 4 off 6 now.

After 19 overs,Delhi Capitals 158/7 ( Keemo Paul 0 , Amit Mishra 0)

This match is going to the last over. Pant showed spirit of the cricket on one ball, did not take a single as Bhuvneshwar fell while fielding. On the next ball, he fell himself and went back to the dressing room. Should have taken the single? Maybe, yes! Delhi Capitals need 5 runs in 6 balls

OUT! Wait a second, Pant had the chance to collect single off the last ball but he did not take as the bowler had slipped and fell on the ground while fielding, Pant did not want to take single because of the same reason. The next ball he tried to clear the long-off boundary and was held on long-off boundary by Nabi. Pant c Nabi b Bhuvneshwar 49(21)

Rishabh Pant has showed why he is considered as an exceptional talent. Under pressure, he took on Thampi, who before that game-changing over was SRH’s best seamer in this innings. And now, just formalities are left for Delhi in this game.

SIX! Fullish and slower in pace, Pant spots it early and smackes it over the long-off boundary for maximum. 6 off 9 balls now.

OUT! Is there a twist left in this tale? Bhuvi comes in and bowls a slower paced delivery, deceived Rutherford, he went through with the shot and the ball went high up in the air, came down at long-off region where Nabi took a very, very good catch. Rutherford c Nabi b Bhuvneshwar 9(12)

After 18 overs,Delhi Capitals 151/5 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 43 , Sherfane Rutherford 9)

Well, Pant hit 21 off the five balls he faced in the over and DC collected 22 in total. This was an innings which tells you again how exceptional a player this lad from Delhi is. Delhi Capitals need 12 runs in 12 balls and one might say that it will take a miracle for SRH to win this one now.

SIX! That’s hit out of the park as well by Pant, Thampi has been hit for another maximum. Too full from him again and Pant smacks it over deep mid-wicket boundary for a maximum.

FOUR! That’s bowled on the legs and Pant flicks it for a boundary to the square leg boundary. Phew, what an innings this is turning out to be.

SIX! Length ball and Pant goes big over the long-on boundary for a maximum. This is turning out to be the over he waited for.

FOUR! Smashed, absolutely smashed by Pant. Thampi came racing in and Pant hit it over the bowler’s head for a boundary.

After 17 overs,Delhi Capitals 129/5 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 22 , Sherfane Rutherford 8)

Bhuvneshwar returns to the attack. He starts with two dots. The pressure was building on Rutherford and he played a heave to collect just 1. Pant came on strike, and he hit a risky shot to deep in the off side to get 1. There was silence for a while before Rutherford cleared the long-off boundary for a six. Now, Delhi Capitals need 34 runs in 18 balls

SIX! This came out of nowhere, Bhuvi overpitches it and Rutherford spotted it early, he smashes it over the long-off region for a maximum.

DC’s hopes pinned on Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant’s scores against SRH in IPL: 23, 5, 128*, 18, 34, 0, 32, 39*

Rashid has turned this around with that over. It is his ability to deliver under pressure makes him special player. Meanwhile, as long as Pant is there at the crease, Delhi will have the upper-hand. Others like Rutherford and Paul are more than decent batsmen as well.

After 16 overs,Delhi Capitals 121/5 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 21 , Sherfane Rutherford 1)

Nabi completes his quota as well. Rashid is done. Spin threat is over for DC. Godo batting from Pant, hits a six and then collects two off the next ball. Delhi Capitals need 42 runs in 24 balls. This is still DC’s match. They need to keep the calm.

SIX! Risky shot from Pant, sits on one knee to Nabi and sweeps him over backward square leg for a maximum.

After 15 overs,Delhi Capitals 111/5 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 12 , Sherfane Rutherford 0)

Kane threw the ball to Rashid, a big move to let him bowl the 15th over. And look what he has done. He is a champpion bowler for a reason and he has ran through the middle order at light’s speed. Munro and Axar back in the hut. Another left-hander in Rutherford joins Pant in the middle. Delhi Capitals need 52 runs in 30 balls

OUT! That’s the end of Axar Patel, Rashid brings it in to the left-handed batsman from the off-stump line, the batsman under-edged it and Saha was alert to catch it safely. Umpire raised his finger. Axar did not look happy but he has no review left. Axar c Saha b Rashid Khan 0(3)

OUT! Lovely leg-spin bowling from Rashid, pitching the middle stump line and straightening up after pitching, hit Munro’s front fat right in front of the stumps, Rashid appealed and umpire Oxenford had no doubts in his mind with that and raised his finger. Munro went upstairs but DRS could not save him. Munro lbw b Rashid Khan 14(13)

After 14 overs,Delhi Capitals 111/3 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 12 , Colin Munro 14)

Thampi returns and he has bowled well here. Good use of variations in the over, which beat Munro on occasions. But despite that, some bad luck and then odd bad balls, means he goes for 12 in the over. Delhi Capitals need 52 runs in 36 balls

SIX! That’s Munro for you, stands and delivers, the ball was bowled on his legs and all that he had to was flick it over the deep backward square leg boundary for a maximum.

FOUR! Not the most convincing shot from Munro but effective for sure, he came down the track, the inswinger from Thampi took the inside edge off his bat and went for four behind the stumps.

After 13 overs,Delhi Capitals 99/3 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 11 , Colin Munro 3)

Rashid returns to complete his third over. Three dots and a big LBW appeal before Munro, the new batsmem, scampered for a single. Just 2 off it and this is a good bowling show from SRH in the middle overs, creating pressure on the DC batting. Delhi Capitals need 64 runs in 42 balls

After 12 overs,Delhi Capitals 97/3 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 10 , Colin Munro 2)

Two wickets fell in one over but it is almost like Pant did not see them falling. He continues to play his shots. Was not a poor ball from Nabi but he went on with the shot and hit a massive six. Delhi Capitals need 66 runs in 48 balls

SIX! Wickets falling at the other end but it has not effect on Pant, who sees the flight on the ball and uses the bottom hand to clear the long -on boundary by some distance.

After 11 overs,Delhi Capitals 87/3 ( Rishabh Pant (W) 2 , )

Khaleel is brought back and he has delivered for Hyderabad. Iyer wanted to cut that delivery for four but there was no room whatsoever and that brought his end. Then Shaw played a fault shot to get dismissed. Hyderabad have come back strongly here.

OUT!  Guess what, Shaw is gone as well, in the same over as Iyer and Hyderabad are back into the game, short ball, Shaw pulled, could not connect well and has been held inside the circle by Shankar. Khaleel begins his celebrations again. 18th wicket this season. Prithvi Shaw c Shankar b Khaleel Ahmed 56(38)

Rashid Khan has taken 38 wickets from 27 T20s this year – the most by any bowler.

Very impressed with Thampi tonight. The youngster has bowled the right channel and has not been predictable with his lengths either. Meanwhile, SRH need the wicket of Shaw, who has timed the ball superbly so far. The game is in Delhi’s favour and they do not need to do anything fancy here.

OUT! Iyer is gone, lovely delivery from Khaleel, he came round the wicket and cramped Iyer for room on the off side, despite that right-handed batsman went through with his cut shot, the ball took a faint edge and went to Saha behind the wickets. Khaleel began celebrations as soon as he saw the catch being taken. Shreyas Iyer c Saha b Khaleel Ahmed 8(10)

After 10 overs,Delhi Capitals 83/1 ( Prithvi Shaw 54 , Shreyas Iyer (C) 8)

Thampi returns. Just 6 from the over but DC are going well in this innings. Iyer is looking very calm in the middle. Shaw needs to make sure he is there till the end and not get out playing a rash shot. He was beaten and almost saw the bails fall off his off stump on the last ball of the over.

After 9 overs,Delhi Capitals 77/1 ( Prithvi Shaw 51 , Shreyas Iyer (C) 6)

Rashid brought back. Iyer has joined Shaw in the middle. In this tournament, Iyer has played with a mature head over his shoulder and he needs to show that here as well. He had added one boundary in the over. Important for DC to not lose the steam.

FOUR! Little bit on the shorter side from Rashid and enough for Iyer to shift his weight on the back foot and cut it for a four.

After 8 overs,Delhi Capitals 70/1 ( Prithvi Shaw 50 , Shreyas Iyer (C) 1)

Okay, now, Deepak Hooda comes into the attack. He is the sixth bowler for SRH this evening and the sixth bowler has finally provided the breakthrough for Hyderabad. But the way he started, it seemed it would be another big over for Capitals as Shaw blasted a six early on in the over. But Hooda’s awareness helped him remove Dhawan. Shaw, meanwhile, has reached to his fifty. If he goes on to make a big one, DC should get home easily.

Shreyas Iyer has amassed 278 runs at an average of 39.71 against SRH from eight innings.

Shreays Iyer has scored 926 runs in T20 cricket in 2019 – the second most by any player, behind Shane Watson’s tally of 953 runs.

OUT! That’s the end of Dhawan, he came down the track too early and Hooda spotted his move, bowled it down the leg stump line, too wide actually, Saha was quick to collect the ball behind the stumps and dislodged the bails before Dhawan could get back. Dhawan st Saha b Hooda 17(16)

SRH desperately need a wicket here. Perhaps they need to change the pace. Williamson should bowl his spinners from both ends. Do not allow the batsmen to use the pace of the bowlers. However, at this point Shaw and Dhawan are taking the game away from SRH.

SIX! Flight from Hooda, the offie, and Shaw comes down the track and cleares the long-on boundary very easily. Six more runs to him and he inches closer to fifty.

After 7 overs,Delhi Capitals 57/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 40 , Shikhar Dhawan 16)

Basil Thampi, right-arm fast medium, brought into the attack. He has bowled a better over. One of the best so far. A 2-run over. More such overs will bring SRH back into the game and force DC batters to play fault shots.

After 6 overs,Delhi Capitals 55/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 39 , Shikhar Dhawan 15)

Kane brings in Rashid Khan into the attack. He had to after seeing the early onslaught. Dhawan was uncomfortable early on but he took a single on the fourth ball and brought Shaw on strike, who smashed Rashid to get that boundary. Fifty up for DC as well.

FOUR! Rashid goes full and Shaw again goes big over the covers, connects it well and fetches four runs in the off side.

After 5 overs,Delhi Capitals 49/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 34 , Shikhar Dhawan 14)

Bhuvneshwar returns to the attack and he has been hit all over the park by the young Prithvi Shaw. A smashing cover drive, an upper cut and then a straight hit over the mid-off fielder. He has got it all and he showing it at Vizag here, much to the dislike of Hyderabad.

FOUR! And now over-pitched from Bhuvneshwar, Shaw smashes it over the mid-off fielder for four more runs.

Attacking the hard new ball is the doctor ordered for Delhi on this pitch and both Dhawan and Shaw are doing exactly that. They are looking a set a platform for their middle-order, so that later in this innings, someone like Rashid can be handled without taking much risk.

SIX! Ah, A Sachin-like upper cut that the third man fielder sees going over his head. Shaw is in some form at this moment.

FOUR! Wow, this is a remarkabe shot, huge back lift and then bat comes down hard on the ball, and slams it through the mid-off fielder for a boundary.

Will DC make SRH pay as much as CSK were made to pay by MI. This is an eliminator, so the stakes at higher.

#CSK messed up chances yesterday and lost. #SRH have squandered one already, which could prove dear

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) May 8, 2019

After 4 overs,Delhi Capitals 32/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 18 , Shikhar Dhawan 14)

Nabi continues and he almost got the first wicket for SRH, that too off Shaw. Dhawan end the over with a boundary to ruin salt on Nabi’s wounds. He deserved a wicket there and ended up giving 7 runs

FOUR! That’s a reverse-sweep from Dhawan, all the shots being played by DC openers and they are connecting everything as well, 4 more runs added to the total.

DROPPED! Flighted ball by Nabi and Shaw smashed directly to Thampi at mid-off who dropped it. Shaw ran two runs.

After 3 overs,Delhi Capitals 25/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 15 , Shikhar Dhawan 10)

Khaleel brought into the attack and Shaw has pelted him for 13 runs in the over, including three cracking boundaries. Those shots can snatch the bowler’s confidence very quickly.

FOUR! That was crunched through off side by Shaw, hit absolutely clean, room outside off and Shaw swung his bat, no one inside the circle on the off side moved.

FOUR! Good length but Shaw picked the length quickly, transfered the weight on his back foot and heaved it to deep mid-wicket boundary.

FOUR! Khaleel comes into the attack, pitches it short, Shaw was waiting for it and slammed it over the mid-on fielder for a boundary.

Sunrisers’ economy rate of 7.3 in PP overs durung the league stage – the best among all the teams.

After 2 overs,Delhi Capitals 12/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 2 , Shikhar Dhawan 10)

Spin from the other end as Mohammad Nabi shares the new ball with Bhuvi. Dhawan hits the ball to backward point and then Williamson places one slip into place. One more dot before Dhawan collects one single. Outside edge off Shaw’s bat breaches the off-side field and the batsman runs a single. Just 2 off the second over.

After 1 over, Delhi Capitals 10/0 ( Prithvi Shaw 1 , Shikhar Dhawan 9)

Bhuvneshwar Kumar begins the proceedings for Hyderabad with the ball. Shaw gets off the mark with a drag-shot on the leg side. Dhawan starts his innings with back-to-back boundaries, two fours on two sides of the wicket. 10 off the over and this is a solid start from the DC openers.

FOUR! Back-to-back boundaries for Dhawan, just a little short and Dhawan rocks back, pulls it away for four to backward square leg boundary

FOUR! That was a cracking shot from Dhawan, room outside the off stup, Dhawan gets into position and cracks it through the covers for a boundary.

Shikhar Dhawan’s batting average in T20 cricket at Vizag is 50.83. (8 innings, 305 runs)

Shikhar Dhawan’s batting average in T20 cricket at Vizag is 50.83. (8 innings, 305 runs)

Alright, Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw come out to begin the chase of 163 runs. 

Bhuvneshwar Kumar will bowl the first over for SRH.

Between Dhawan, Iyer and Pant, they have scored 11 of the 12 half-centuries scored by Delhi Capitals batsmen this season

Good last over by Keemo Paul but I think overall it is an excellent finish this from SRH’s point of view.  58 runs in the last five overs and Nabi has once again played a useful cameo with bat in hand. In fact. apart from a few, all the SRH batsmen who have batted tonight, have done their jobs. Now, even with the dew around, Delhi batting will have their task cut out to get 163 on this pitch.

SRH today:

First 15 overs : 104/3 (RR – 6.93)
Last five overs : 58/5 (RR – 11.60)

After 20 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 162/8 ( Bhuvneshwar Kumar 0 , Basil Thampi 1)

Paul given the responsibilty of finishing the innings with the ball for Delhi Capitals. He begins with a wide outside off. Follows it up with a good yorker that Hooda is only able to flick it to backward square for a single. Nabi swings and fails to connect a slower delivery but he clubs the next ball for a mighty six. Flurry of wickets towards the end as SRH finish with 162/8 off their 20 overs. Join us for the chase in a short while.

OUT! Rashid Khan comes out swinging but heads back to the pavilion immediately as well. Paul keeping wide of off and Rashid gets a top edge to Pant. Early exit for the Afghan. A first-ball duck.

Rashid Khan c Pant b K Paul 0(1)

OUT! Some drama towards the end of the over as. It was a slower ball outside off and Hooda goes for a big swing across the line. Misses and tries to steal a bye. Pant hurls a throw, he misses at the striker’s end but ends up hitting the wickets at the non-striker’s end. The umpire discusses with Shreyas Iyer as Paul came in the way of the batsmen but it was surely not intentional. Hooda has to go. Umpire spoke to DC captain if he wanted to withdraw the appeal as his bowler came in the way and Shreyas, who was far away from the action decides to carry on with the game almost ends up withdrawing his appeal. However, wicket-keeper Pant intervenes and narrates the incident when Hooda and Paul collided, it was purely an accident where Paul was only trying to back up the throw but he wasn’t able to and ended up in tangle with Hooda.

Hooda run out (Pant) 4(5)

OUT! Slower delivery outside off from Paul and Nabi, who was trying to clear his front leg and go down the ground, has to make adjustment. He slices it to deep extra cover and SRH lose their sixth wicket.

Nabi c Axar b K Paul 20(13)

SIX! Length delivery on the stumps, right in Nabi’s arc and he has dispatched out of his sights. This has gone high and also has the distance, sending the ball over wide long on. Adding insult to injury is Paul overstepped there. So Free-hit coming up…

After 19 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 152/5 ( Mohammad Nabi 14 , Deepak Hooda 3)

Boult comes on to bowl the penultimate over. The over starts just according to Sunrisers’ plan with Vijay smashing couple of boundaries at the start of the over but is dismissed off the third ball. Boult gets in couple of good yorkers to new man Deepak Hooda. SRH go past the 150-run mark.

OUT! Vijay pershies. He was looking to continue his agressive play and was searching the third boundary in the row but he finds the fielder at deep mid wicket.  It was the slower delivery from Boult, that was short in length Vijay couldn’t really pick the bones of that.

Vijay c Axar b Boult 25(11)

SIX! Vijay has once again targetted the same region as Boult goes wide of off but Shreyas Iyer comes around from long off and takes the catch but he is on the move and is unable to keep it in. He tries to throw the ball up in the air as he crosses the ropes but is only able to flick over the fence.

FOUR! Boult returns to the attack and bowls it full on off and then he lofts it over covers for a boundary. Very good shot indeed.

After 18 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 137/4 ( Vijay Shankar 15 , Mohammad Nabi 14)

Valuable runs added by these two towards the end. Paul’s over costs 10 runs and Sunrisers may as well end with 160 here.

FOUR! Vijay too getting into the action now. Well, he doesn’t have a choice. Short ball and he has pulled away to backward square leg.

FOUR! Nabi targets the straight boundary. He has picked the length early and tonked the ball down the ground. This a good little cameo he is playing here.

After 17 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 127/4 ( Vijay Shankar 10 , Mohammad Nabi 9)

Couple of boundaries the over from Axar Patel’s over. He finishes with 30 runs from his four. Nabi and Vijay would want to take Sunrisers past the 150-run mark.

SIX! Axar pays the price of dropping it short as it allows Vijay Shankar to drop back in his crease unleash the pull over mid wicket.

FOUR! Nabi is showing it how it is done. Another delectable late cut to third man fence, much squarer compared to his first bounday. Nabi simply opens the face of the bat to play it through vacant slip region. Using the pace once again

After 16 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 115/4 ( Vijay Shankar 3 , Mohammad Nabi 4)

Wicket of Kane Williamson sandwiched between couple of fours for Sunrisers. Ishant Sharma concedes 11 off his final over and ending with two wickets to his name from his four overs. Sunrisers need a strong finish to end their innings. Mohammad Nabi has started off with a boundary off his first ball.

Most wickets for Ishant Sharma in an IPL season:

15, 2013
12, 2019*
11, 2009,2011

FOUR! Ha! Easily done. Back of a length delivery outside off and Nabi opens the face of the bat and steers it through short third and backward point. What a way to get off the mark.

OUT! Straight, full and accurate bowling from Ishant Sharma has brought an end to Williamson’s stay in the middle. Williamson was backing away to create some room and squeeze it towards the off-stump. Fails to make a connection and is bowled by the yorker.

Williamson b Ishant 28(27)

FOUR! KW walks across his stumps and heaves it the slower off-cutter from Ishant Sharma towards long leg. Trent Boult charges to claim the catch, the ball falls short and runs away to the boundary.

After 15 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 104/3 ( Kane Williamson (C) 23 , Vijay Shankar 2)

Rutherford is called into the for the first time. Williamson brings Sunrisers 100 with a boundary and almost ends up playing it on to his own stumps a couple of times as he tries to run an incoming delivery down the third man. He miscues a scoop as well, skews it off the leading edge over short third man for a brace.

Ok, it is time for a score prediction. Feel if SRH can reach 150-160 from here, with their bowling attack, they can defend that. And Williamson is the key. He needs to bat through, like he did against RCB in the previous game. From Delhi’s point of view, it is all about maintaining the pressure. They will bowl mostly their seamers and medium pacers in this final half of this innings and we can expect a lot of slow balls and other variations.

FOUR! Williamson finally gets this from the screws. Slower ball outside off, it is back of a length as well and KW has tapped this ball in front of square to the extra cover fence.

Six of Vijay Shankar’s 10 dismissals have been against spinners in this season of IPL.

After 14 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 93/3 ( Kane Williamson (C) 14 , Vijay Shankar 1)

Keemo Paul returns to the attack. shaw makes a splendid effort in the field at short cover as he dives to save a couple runs for his team, he has to turn and has one stump to aim at. He misses but Pandey doesn’t hang around long. Vijay Shankar walks to the middle with his side requiring him to do the heavy lifting. A wicket and five singles of Paul’s over.

OUT! Manish Pandey holes out to long on. Full on middle tailing into Pandey, who looks to go over the top of long on fence, doesn’t get the desired connection. The bat turns in his hands and is able to only tamely lob it to the fielder in the deep. Rutherford pouches it safely.

Manish Pandey c Rutherford b K Paul 30(36)

After 13 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 88/2 ( Manish Pandey 29 , Kane Williamson (C) 11)

Mishra is brought on to bowl the final over. Pandey and Williamson motor along with singles off each of his deliveries. Mishra ends with excellent figures of 4-0-16-1, so nearly had the wicket of SRH skipper as well.

After 12 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 82/2 ( Manish Pandey 26 , Kane Williamson (C) 8)

Pant with an appeal for a stumping off the second ball off Axar’s penultimate over against Manish Pandey. The batsman is able to drag his back leg in time. Pandey hits a boundary after a fairly long time for Sunrisers. Seven runs off the over.

FOUR! Welcome boundary for Sunrisers. Pandey goes deep in his crease and slices the short ball behind backward point, in fact through short third man, Munro could have done better, feels the bowler

After 11 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 75/2 ( Manish Pandey 21 , Kane Williamson (C) 6)

More encouraging signs for spinners as Mishra gets a couple to turn past Williamson, in fact he draws an outside edge as well but Rishabh Pant isn’t able to grab it. Will go down against Pant. Another good over from Mishra, just four runs off it.

DROPPED! Rishabh Pant has put down Kane Williamson on 5. Mishra is disappointed and why not. It was a really good delivery, length leg break, turning away from Williamson, from outside off, KW was trying to open the face of the bat and tap it towards point, gets an edge with a little deflection and Pant doesn’t cling on.

Following the Guptill onslaught Delhi have got the control back in this game. The scoring rate is less than 7.5 now. Both Pandey and Williamson are not taking any risk at this stage as they want to play the majority of these middle overs. So, a wicket at this stage will put Delhi in the driver’s seat. Perhaps, it is time for a one-over spell of Trent Boult.

After 10 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 71/2 ( Manish Pandey 18 , Kane Williamson (C) 5)

Some signs of the ball just holding and gripping the surface in Axar Patel’s over. Williamson almost ended up chopping the ball back on to his stumps. Rashid Khan must be watching this closely from the dugout. Four singles from the over. DC have been able to pull things back after Guptill’s explosive start as we complete the halfway stage of the innings

After 9 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 67/2 ( Manish Pandey 16 , Kane Williamson (C) 3)

Manish Pandey plays a well-controlled sweep to deep mid wicket, rolling the wrists and keeping the ball along the turf for a couple off the first ball of Mishra’s over and it turns out to be the only scoring shot of the over. Little yes and no off the last ball between Pandey and KW with Pandey sent back. Makes home safely. Just two runs from the over.

Kane Williamson this IPL:

First seven innings combined : 57 runs
Previous innings : 70* runs

After 8 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 65/2 ( Manish Pandey 14 , Kane Williamson (C) 3)

Keemo Paul is brought into the attack. Fairly long over from Paul, bowling three wides in the over. Time for SRH to rebuild and these two have some time to play themselves in. Loud leg before shout against Manish Pandey but after pondering for a few seconds, Shreyas Iyer decides against the review. Looked like it was sliding just down the leg side. The ball-tracking suggests it would have flicked the leg stump and the decision would have stayed with the umpire’s call.

Guptil has thrown it away. Not a smart shot this from an internationally experienced batsman of his stature. He had got the start, and the New Zealander should have made it count, like Warner had done for the ‘Orange Army’ in the earlier part of this IPL 2019. And by gifting Amit Mishra a wicket in his first over, SRH have now given him the confidence.

After 7 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 58/2 ( Manish Pandey 13 , Kane Williamson (C) 1)

Amit Mishra to bowl after the strategic time out and yet again the time out devours a set batsmen. Martin Guptill walks back to the dug out. Captain Kane Williamson strides out to the middle with a big task on their hand. DC will feel they have a chance to expose the Sunrisers’ fragile middle order.

Amit Mishra’s bowling average against SRH in IPL was 41.00 before today. (9 matches, 5 wickets)

OUT! Big wicket! Mishra brings the downfall of Martin Guptill. Loopy leg break on leg stump that was turning back into Guptill, who went down on his knee and went for the big slog sweep, didn’t catch it perfectly from the center of the bat, in fact it came right off the cue end and the fielder at the cow corner fence makes no mistake. Mishra is overjoyed. Fine attacking knock from Guptill comes to an end.

Guptill c K Paul b Mishra 36(19)

After 6 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 54/1 ( Martin Guptill 35 , Manish Pandey 11)

Ishant Sharma might feel slightly unlucky with couple of boundaries in the final over of the Powerplay. One went due to a misfield, the other went off the top edge but that’s how the nature of the game is. Sunrisers race past the 50-run mark. End of Powerplay and time for a break as the umpire signals the first strategic time out.

FOUR! A well-directed short ball from Ishant but Pandey is up for the challenge, he goes for the pull and even though he wasn’t complete control of the shot, he has pulled it very fine. Fell just short of the boundary skirtings at fine leg.

FOUR! Oh dear! That is poor from the DC captain. Manish Pandey knocked it gently to the left of mid off but Shreyas Iyer, who was coming around it, misfields it horribly, doesn’t collect it cleanly and it deflects to long off fence.

After 5 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 44/1 ( Martin Guptill 34 , Manish Pandey 2)

Axar Patel is brought into the attack. A big six from Guptill along with a single from the over. The Kiwi opener is looking really dangerous. Bairstow and Warner kept him on the bench for so long but after couple of games, he has hit his straps straightaway today.

SIX! Guptill premediated this and has been able to play it  just the way he wanted. Little shuffle across and he takes on the short length delivery from Axar to pull it over deep mid wicket.

Delhi spinners’ economy rate in away IPL games this season:

Amit Mishra : 6.33, Tewatia : 9.00, Lamichhance : 9.13, Axar Patel : 9.35

Ishant Sharma has taken eight wickets in PP overs this IPL – the joint second most by any player alongside Harbhajan Singh.

Manish Pandey’s batting average against Delhi in IPL is 42.75. (12 innings, 342 runs) 

His last five innings this IPL – 9, 71*, 36, 61, 83*

After 4 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 37/1 ( Martin Guptill 28 , Manish Pandey 1)

Successful over for Delhi Capitals with Ishant Sharma providing the first breakthrough. Manish Pandey walks in at number three and gets off the mark with slightly risky quick single. Guptill collects another boundary but Ishant does well to end the over with a dot ball. Guptill was just backing away to create some room and smack it over the offstump but the lanky bowler followed him, tying him up.

FOUR! Ishant strays on the pads and Guptill is in too good a touch to miss out on that. Gets the tickle to fine leg for a boundary

OUT! No real need for Saha to play that stroke but it can be fairly surmised that he has thrown it away. Ishant holds it back of a good length and Saha was looking to go over the top of wide mid off, got the end of the bat with the ball looping straight up for mid off to gobble it. DC have drawn the first blood.

Saha c Shreyas Iyer b Ishant 8(9)

After 3 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 31/0 ( Wriddhiman Saha (W) 8 , Martin Guptill 23)

Boult continues. Change of bats for Martin Guptill, who works it off his hips to fine leg for a couple. Guptill strikes two sixes to end the over from Boult. Ultra-attacking batting from Guptill.

SIX! Gee! Guptill is in some mood tonight. Shot and wide from Boult and Guptill has slapped with a flat bat over point boundary

SIX! Length off-cutter wide of off stump and Guptill goes after it. Lofts it over covers and although the top hand comes off, he has got enough meat on this one as the ball sails over the extra cover ropes.

Ishant Sharma in PP overs this IPL:

v MI: 3-0-19-2
v CSK: 3-0-28-1
v RCB: 3-0-17-0
v KKR: 3-1-16-1
v SRH: 3-0-19-0
v MI: 3-0-17-0
v KXIP: 3-0-19-0
v RR: 2-0-12-0
v RCB: 2-0-21-0
v RR: 3-0-20-3

An eventful start this. Saha almost missed the deadline to go for that review. He signaled to the umpire right at the last moment. Meanwhile, the Delhi pacers have hit the right length and the ball is doing a bit. Here, I feel as a fielding captain, Shreyas Iyer needs to cut down the close singles which the SRH openers are taking.

After 2 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 16/0 ( Wriddhiman Saha (W) 7 , Martin Guptill 9)

Ishant Sharma will partner Boult from the other end. One slip in place. Prithvi Shaw’s misfield at covers gives a chance for Guptill to go to the non-striker’s end. Ishant beats Saha with a beauty but Guptill takes the attack to Ishant later in the over.

SIX! WOWZA! Back of length delivery on the stumps from Ishant and Guptill shimmies down the track and launches it high and straight. That goes long over the sight screen for the first maximum

After 1 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 8/0 ( Wriddhiman Saha (W) 6 , Martin Guptill 2)

Action straightaway. Boult with his customary inswinger into Saha to start his over. All the DC players go up and the umpire raises his finger. It looked high but after Saha used the DRS it was revealed he had got an inside edge on it. Decision overturrned, but SRH, who had scampered a quick run was taken away as the on-field umpire had deemed it out. Saha takes strike again. Both Saha and Guptill get off the mark with singles before Saha ends the over with an excellent boundary.

FOUR! SHOT! Length on off by Boult, slanted across Saha and he has driven this square. Hit crisply through point for the first boundary of the innings. Made a great sound off the bat

Time for LIVE action. Delhi Capitals jog out to the middle followed by Sunrisers Hyderabad’s opening duo of Martin Guptill and Wriddhiman Saha. Trent Boult is ready with the ball, so is the crowds at Vizag. Umpire calls play…

Wriddihiman Saha has scored 73 runs as an opener at a strike rate of 187.17 in this IPL so far.  

DC’s economy rate of 7.8 in PP overs durung the league stage – the second best among all the teams

What.A.Start!! Cracked us up!

Skipper Iyer eager to get things started here in Vizag 😅😅 pic.twitter.com/2EwJGEuFLh

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 8, 2019

Good toss to win this for Delhi. Due to the recent cyclonic weather in the eastern part of the country, Visakhapatnam has experienced a lot of rain of late. So, the wicket expected to be little bit sticky and two paced. For the batsmen, driving through the line won’t be easy over here and a low scoring encounter is on the cards tonight. Also, we can expect dew in the second half of this game, which will be helpful for the batting side. So, at this point Delhi seem to have the upper-hand.

It has been seven long years for Delhi to feature at the Playoff stage of the IPL. And so far, this is an inspirational journey for them in the competition. They have utilized their resources brilliantly and managed to get the best out of their players. But in this Eliminator they have to start fresh against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, who have secured a backdoor entry in this last four stage.

Three of the last five IPL games in Vizag have had first-innings totals of less than 140.

Delhi Capitals have won seven of their last nine games.

Sunrisers Hyderabad playing 11 today
 

Wriddhiman Saha(w), Martin Guptill, Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson(c), Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Nabi, Deepak Hooda, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, K Khaleel Ahmed, Basil Thampi

Delhi Capitals playing 11 today 

Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Colin Munro, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Sherfane Rutherford, Axar Patel, Keemo Paul, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Trent Boult

SRH vs DC toss result today:

Delhi Capitals win toss and Shreyas Iyer elects to field

DC vs SRH head to head 

SRH have a 9-5 record against Delhi in IPL.

The teams which batted first, have won 7 of 11 IPL matches played at Vizag.

This IPL while batting first,

DC’s record : 3-2
SRH’s record : 2-5

The players have arrived at the venue. Toss at 7 pm. Stay tuned. 

Hello and welcome to the Eliminator of #VIVOIPL to be played between @DelhiCapitals and @SunRisers.#DCvSRH pic.twitter.com/CeLhmbM7mU

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 8, 2019

Michael Slater at Pitch report: Pitch is flat. Looks very dry and there are cracks as well. There is not a lot pace on the pitch. Spinners will be relevant. Batting will be difficult.

Rajasthan Royals’ coach Paddy Upton explains side’s poor season, basks in glorious individual performances. Click here to read the full article.

Mumbai Indians devise right strategy with spinners on turning deck to outclass Chennai Super Kings in Qualifier 1

It was evident from the outset that Mumbai had thought long and hard about how to break down Chennai top-order on a pitch that was always going to aid spin.

Read the full article here

In the second match of the Women’s T20 Challenge between Trailblazers vs Velocity, Mithali Raj-led side has beaten Smriti Mandhana’s team by 3 wickets. Check out the highlights here .

Here’s our cricket expert Ayaz Memon with the preview of the big match today between DC and SRH. 

Vizag will see @DelhiCapitals and @SunRisers battle it out in the eliminator today. Will DC prove too good for SRH? Or will the depleted SRH just about manage to scrape past the Shreyas Iyer led Delhi Capitals?

Watch @cricketwallah in a preview of eliminator. pic.twitter.com/WNRF2ubc0K

— Firstpost (@firstpost) May 8, 2019

DC’s road to playoffs: The most obvious task for the Delhi Capitals’ management is to get the balance right in their playing eleven. Any balanced side doesn’t depend on one or two players but instead gels together as a unit. This has been the story for Delhi for a majority of their season; when different factors have all clicked for them together, they have won easily. On off days, they have collapsed easily too.

Read the full piece here.

SRH’s road to playoffs: To say that the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s flight was crafted only by David Warner and Jonny Bairstow would be to turn a blind eye to the efforts of the bowlers who helped them win five of the 10 matches before Bairstow returned to England.

Click here to read how SRH made their way to the playoffs

IPL 2019 Eliminator, SRH vs DC preview: Sunrisers Hyderbad, Delhi Capitals have uphill task to deliver in absence of star performers

Delhi Capitals have won five away games while Sunrisers Hyderabad do not have such a glorious record of playing in conditions that are not entirely their own. 

Read the full preview here.

Today’s IPL match live blog between DC and SRH 

Hello and welcome to Firstpost’s coverage of the Eliminator to be played between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Visakhapatnam. Shreyas Iyer’s Delhi Capitals will be looking to extend their excellent away form as they face Sunrisers Hyderabad in Vizag on Wednesday. Both teams will miss their ace international starts in Kagiso Rabada (DC) and David warner (SRH) for the key encounter. The winner will set a date with defending champions Chennai Super Kings in second Qualifier.