END OF OVER:
20 | 16 Runs | DC: 199/3 | RR: 9.95

  • KL Rahul112 (65b)
  • Tristan Stubbs21 (10b)
  • Mohammed Siraj4-0-37-0
  • Prasidh Krishna4-0-40-1

kaig: "I think DC are a run short here... going to a super over folks!" Wouldn't mind that. GT of course have the best top-three of the league. How will they go? Find out with Himanshu.

Kevin Pietersen: Tough work seeing these boys bat, especially in the pressure situation we've gotten into. Break may have done us good after a wobble in the tournament. KL wanted to bat at the top. Sometimes it doesn't work, but a player of his quality, how good was that to watch. When you can see players of that quality practice and watch them bat like that, it's a privilege. We've got Mustafiz fly in today, Chameera, Nattu who's returning from a shoulder injury, to give a red-hot crack. No dew yet. We didn't start aggressively, we haven't been good in the powerplay. We were much better this evening and tried cashing in in the back ten. Did that nicely. Would've taken 200 with both hands at the start.

9:20pm: Rahul has glued the innings together and finished in style. His tempo was excellent too. He took out Rabada, got two fours and a six off Prasidh who bowled well too. Didn't get strike for a bit but the finish was excellent. His partners started slow, Porel and Axar did finish with good strike rates though. Stubbs at the end was great. Rashid was good, Sai Kishore had to bowl all four as Rabada was expensive. He was good in patches but conceded 47 in the end.

19.6
0
Mohammed Siraj to Rahul, no run, Smart wide yorker from Siraj. He saw Rahul make room, landed it just inside the off side tramline. Way too far for Rahul to do anything. Reviewed by DC but it's well inside. In fact, Rahul raises his bat and went past the boundary before the replay shows up
19.5
1
Mohammed Siraj to Stubbs, 1 run, Siraj goes for another yorker, misses on the shorter side. Gets away with it as Stubbs had cleared his front leg too far. Tried to slog it over long-on, toes it to midwicket
19.4
6
Mohammed Siraj to Stubbs, SIX, Jumping pull! Whacks a head-high bouncer from beside his shoulder. Fifth-stump bouncer dragged over deep square leg. Even Gill is impressed.
19.3
1
Mohammed Siraj to Rahul, 1 run, 141ks, near-yorker again. Rahul gets underneath by sliding his front leg leg side. Picks up the flick to deep square leg's right. Stopped on the bounce
19.2
4
Mohammed Siraj to Rahul, FOUR, Very low full toss, almost a yorker but Rahul creams it through extra. Back knee bent low to get under the ball, the line was around fourth stump which helped him.
19.1
4
Mohammed Siraj to Rahul, FOUR, That's out if it hasn't hit bat. Siraj appealed for lbw, Gill wasn't convinced but takes the review with three seconds to go. Ump called it runs. Indeed it was. Rahul went for the reverse paddle over short third to a near-yorker on off stump. The bat was scraping up and the ball went off the moving right toe of the bat, between the feet and through fine leg

Siraj to close out. 200 on the cards for DC

END OF OVER:
19 | 14 Runs | DC: 183/3 | RR: 9.63

  • Tristan Stubbs14 (8b)
  • KL Rahul103 (61b)
  • Prasidh Krishna4-0-40-1
  • Sai Kishore4-0-47-1
18.6
2
Prasidh Krishna to Stubbs, 2 runs, Perfect 141ks yorker has Stubbs sliding out of the way, he manages to clip it through midwicket and scampers back for two
18.5
1
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, 1 run, Yorker at 145ks following him as he makes room, jammed to long-off
18.4
4
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, FOUR, Rahul brings up his fifth hundred with a pull in front of square. He has a word with his partner before getting his lid out and soaking in the rousing cheers. Big smile on KP too. Was a shortish ball that came around belly-height. Hit flat
18.3
0
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, no run, Full ball down leg, goes past the flick

pranav Nigadkar: "That 6 reminded me of six By Virat against haris rauf!!"

18.2
6
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, SIX, Remarkable shot, it's like a horizontal bat shot but was actually more of a lofted off drive. Played it in front of the waist while backing away. Was a length ball following him, cramped him for room but it didn't matter
18.1
1
Prasidh Krishna to Stubbs, 1 run, Makes room early, Prasidh smartly bowls at fifth stump. 145ks and full. Stubbs has to stretch out to bunt it to deep point

Prasidh to close out. Ravi Shastri on air informs Rahul's faced four balls in the last four overs

END OF OVER:
18 | 11 Runs | DC: 169/3 | RR: 9.38

  • Tristan Stubbs11 (6b)
  • KL Rahul92 (57b)
  • Sai Kishore4-0-47-1
  • Prasidh Krishna3-0-26-1
17.6
1
Sai Kishore to Stubbs, 1 run, Might've been seam-up. Under-edge goes low and too quickly for Buttler to get more than a fingertip. Was a quick length ball outside off that Stubbs tried to flat-bat over the bowler

Over the wicket

17.5
6
Sai Kishore to Stubbs, SIX, Stubbs is able to use the angle in though. Clears the front leg late, it actually touched the leg-side tramline to open up his hips for the pull. Flat over forward square leg for six.
17.4
1
Sai Kishore to Rahul, 1 run, Square driven through point. Was a 96ks length ball angling in sharply, finished on middle and Rahul looked cramped for room. Bottom hand came off, so might've been hurried too

Around again to Rahul

17.3
1
Sai Kishore to Stubbs, 1 run, A bit of turn away. Landed around fifth and Stubbs had to reach out with his torso to cut through extra cover

Over the wicket to Stubbs

17.2
1
Sai Kishore to Rahul, 1 run, Rahul dances down and Sai Kishore slows it down. Floats it wide on a length, slashed to long-off
17.1
1
Sai Kishore to Stubbs, 1 run, Length on off, 95ks, pushed to long-off, who's slightly wide

Will be Sai Kishore, Rabada might be done for the day. Around

END OF OVER:
17 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | DC: 158/3 | RR: 9.29

  • Tristan Stubbs2 (2b)
  • KL Rahul90 (55b)
  • Prasidh Krishna3-0-26-1
  • Sai Kishore3-0-36-1
16.6
1
Prasidh Krishna to Stubbs, 1 run, Short ball rises only to waist-height, Stubbs tucks it softly to midwicket and takes off. Looked like the pull was on there, Stubbs decided to use it as a sighter instead
16.5
1lb
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, 1 leg bye, Tucked the low full toss to square leg
16.4
4
Prasidh Krishna to Rahul, FOUR, Deft pull to short fine leg's left. Short fine was in and Prasidh went slow at middle and leg. Rahul waited for the most part, bent low and got the front leg out the way to rake it into the ground
16.3
1
Prasidh Krishna to Stubbs, 1 run, Into the pitch, at the hip, clipped off the back foot to long leg
16.2
W
Prasidh Krishna to Patel, OUT, Taken at deep third. Sai Kishore didn't spot it initially, but then took off to the right and took it around the bread basket. He was placed very fine too. Was a shortish ball angling in. Axar limboed back and and upper cut it, more of a glide actually as there was no follow-through. Timed it well, placement not

AR Patel c Sai Kishore b Prasidh Krishna 25 (18m 16b 2x4 1x6) SR: 156.25

16.1
0
Prasidh Krishna to Patel, no run, Wide on a shortish length, looked slow, Axar tries to drag it over midwicket with a pull. Misses

Prasidh returns. Around the wicket. He'll bowl another. Arshad has one, question is whether Rabada will bowl or not