- BATSMENRB4s6sSR0.1 bowled'im, first up, what a beauty. Lovely seam position, just short of a length, outside off. Shaw pushes at it, and the ball hits the seam and jags back in to take the inside edge onto the middle stump 0/111.4 and Dhawan perishes trying to force the pace. Looks for the reverse sweep, Iyer stays wide outside off, and the slowness and extra bouncer means he gets a top edge for an easy catch at short third man 95/32.3 and Rahane goes. Playing with fore when you look to slog Archer at this pace. Heavy length, quick, and gets big on him. Goes off the splice of the bat to mid-on 10/215.6 he might have missed out on the lbw earlier, but gets his man now. Wide on the crease, wide length ball, Iyer looks for another six down the ground, but the extra bounce means he holes out to long-off 132/418.6 short ball, a little ball of fire, quick and wide, getting big on him. Stoinis looks for the hook but goes only as far as deep midwicket 153/519.4 slower ball. Smart bowling. Bowl on pace to the Indian batsman, who has faced a lot of you. Go slow to the Australian, who has hardly faced you in the past? Wide length ball, offcutter, mis-hit to long-off 157/619.6 big slower ball, at 99.9ks, wide outside off, and Patel is nowhere near it. Toe-ends this for a catch to short third man 161/7Extras10 (lb 2, nb 2, w 6)TOTAL161/7 (20 Overs, RR: 8.05)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Prithvi Shaw, 0.1 ov), 2-10 (Ajinkya Rahane, 2.3 ov), 3-95 (Shikhar Dhawan, 11.4 ov), 4-132 (Shreyas Iyer, 15.6 ov), 5-153 (Marcus Stoinis, 18.6 ov), 6-157 (Alex Carey, 19.4 ov), 7-161 (Axar Patel, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB JC Archer 4 0 19 3 4.75 14 0 1 3 0 JD Unadkat 3 0 32 2 10.66 5 2 2 0 0 Kartik Tyagi 4 0 30 1 7.5 9 2 1 1 0 BA Stokes 2 0 24 0 12 2 3 0 0 2 S Gopal 4 0 31 1 7.75 4 1 1 2 0 R Tewatia 3 0 23 0 7.66 5 3 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR10.2 Deshpande holds his own against a batsman intent on dominating. Stokes jumps out of the crease, and he bowls a slower one at 121ks. He is way early into the shot, and ends up holing out to long-on. Deshpande is over the moon 86/32.6 bowled'im. Nortje has his own back. This is all fast and furious at 155.4ks. Nortje sticks to his (speed) guns, and keeps attacking the stumps with fast bowling. This time Buttler tries the more orthodox shot down the ground, and is beaten by the seam movement to lose his middle stump. Don't hear a pundit criticising him for playing orthodox shot when the unorthodox ones were bringing him the results. That is how they sound when they criticise innovation 37/13.6 lovely bowling. Lovely cricket in these four overs. Hitting, innovation, pace and now guile. Ashwin slows this down by at least 10-12ks, and he bowls it scrambled-seam. Smith is playing for the offbreak, which it looks like, but goes straight on because of the imperfect (if you will) seam position. Leading edge results in an easy catch 40/211.4 massive wicket. Axar Patel hits back. Lovely arm ball, quick, 97ks, Samson looks to make room but the ball slides on hit the middle stump. Samson is left anguished as he walks back 97/417.3 lovely bowling. A yorker at the base of middle and leg stump at 149.7ks. After trying the ramp, Uthappa charges at Nortje, and he spears in this massive yorker. This is just too good for Uthappa 135/613.2 Parag is run out. Really slow in the air, Uthappa looks to work this to leg, but because there is on pace to work with, he doesn't get the ball wide enough of Patel. Uthappa charges down the wicket, and then sends Parag back. He has nowhere to go. He can only wish Patel misses, but he takes his time, steadies his aim, and goes for the base of the middle stump 110/518.4 Rabada has delivered what Dhawan asked for. This is nearly a yorker. Quick one. And even though it is not a yorker, there is still not enough room to get under. All he manages to do is scoop it out to point 138/719.6 slower short ball, and Deshpande has his second wicket with an attempted ramp going nowhere 148/8Extras5 (b 1, nb 1, w 3)TOTAL148/8 (20 Overs, RR: 7.4)Fall of wickets: 1-37 (Jos Buttler, 2.6 ov), 2-40 (Steven Smith, 3.6 ov), 3-86 (Ben Stokes, 10.2 ov), 4-97 (Sanju Samson, 11.4 ov), 5-110 (Riyan Parag, 13.2 ov), 6-135 (Robin Uthappa, 17.3 ov), 7-138 (Jofra Archer, 18.4 ov), 8-148 (Shreyas Gopal, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB K Rabada 4 0 28 1 7 9 4 0 0 0 TU Deshpande 4 0 37 2 9.25 5 4 0 3 1 A Nortje 4 0 33 2 8.25 10 3 2 0 0 R Ashwin 4 0 17 1 4.25 10 1 0 0 0 AR Patel 4 0 32 1 8 8 2 2 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Delhi Capitals , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
18.00 start, First Session 18.00-19.30, Interval 19.30-19.50, Second Session 19.50- 21.20
Match days
14 October 2020 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Delhi Capitals 2, Rajasthan Royals 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 47 runs, 2 wickets)
- Delhi Capitals: 50 runs in 6.4 overs (41 balls), Extras 5
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (S Dhawan 32, SS Iyer 16, Ex 3)
- S Dhawan: 50 off 30 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Delhi Capitals: 100 runs in 12.5 overs (79 balls), Extras 7
- SS Iyer: 50 off 40 balls (3 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Delhi Capitals - 132/4 in 16.0 overs (MP Stoinis 12)
- Delhi Capitals: 150 runs in 18.2 overs (112 balls), Extras 9
- Innings Break: Delhi Capitals - 161/7 in 20.0 overs (R Ashwin 0)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 50 runs, 2 wickets)
- Rajasthan Royals: 50 runs in 5.6 overs (36 balls), Extras 0
- Strategic Timeout: Rajasthan Royals - 59/2 in 7.0 overs (BA Stokes 27, SV Samson 9)
- Rajasthan Royals: 100 runs in 12.2 overs (75 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Rajasthan Royals - 115/5 in 14.0 overs (RV Uthappa 23, R Tewatia 0)
Match Coverage
All Match NewsRoyals miss out as Nortje leads Capitals' stellar defence
Three fast bowlers provided spine-tingling entertainment from both sides, but Capitals won the final overs battle
Talking Points - After two impossible chases, how did Rajasthan Royals fail to get 39 off 30?
Also, is it time for Steven Smith to be dropped?
Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2020 - Rolling Report
ESPNcricinfo's updates from the 30th match of IPL 2020, in Dubai
Archer, Nortje and glorious fast-bowling nirvana
The Capitals vs Royals was a truly thrilling exhibition of ferociously fast bowling
Injury-hit Delhi Capitals hope rejigged XI does the job against unpredictable Rajasthan Royals
The early pace-setters have had to tweak their plans after injuries to Pant and Ishant



