Mumbai: Lalit Yadav smashed an unbeaten 48 while Axar Patel scored an unbeaten 38 off just 17 balls as Delhi Capitals started their IPL campaign with a convincing four-wicket win over Mumbai Indians here on Sunday. Chasing a challenging 178, Delhi were reduced to 72 for 5 in 10 overs but Delhi’s lesser-known all-rounder Yadav remained calm to prop up his side during an unbeaten 38-ball knock.
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Patel, India’s all-rounder, played an unbeaten 38 off 17 balls as DC chased down the target with 10 balls to spare. Yadav hit four fours and two sixes, while Patel hit two hours and three sixes as the two put on a match-winning 75-run partnership of 30 balls for the seventh wicket. After a normal day (4-0-40-0) with the ball, Patel scored a run chase after losing one of Delhi’s leading batsmen – Prithvi Shaw (38), Rishabh Pant (1), Rovman Powell (0). gave his best performance. cheaply.
Mumbai looked normal in their pace attack with Jasprit Bumrah making a comeback with the wicket (3.2-0-43-0). He was also sluggish on the field as Patel made full use of his catch dropped by Daniel Sams on 15.
Sams also conceded 24 runs in the 18th over, with Yadav smashing him for fours and sixes, while Patel halted the chase with a monstrous six off the final ball, which went down to 179 for 6 in 18.20 overs. Reached. With their star Aussie David Warner unavailable for the opening few matches, Kiwi recruit Tim Seifert played his new starting role for Delhi.
He took Bumrah forward, and tossed the India pacer over his head for a boundary. Seifert hit another stunner against Bumrah, this time a lofted drive over cover in a shot with class written on it. At the other end, Shaw started off with a six off Basil Thampi as DC scored 30 runs in three overs.
Rohit introduced leg-spinner Murugan Ashwin (4-0-14-2) in the fourth over and the move paid dividends. Ashwin fouls Seifert to clear the Kiwi wicketkeeper-batsman through the gate.
He then gifted his wicket to Mandeep Singh at a high full toss in place of a ball. After two successes from Ashwin, Thampi (4-0-35-3) shook Delhi with his triple strike – Shaw, Rovman Powell and Shardul Thakur.
Earlier, wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan showed immense maturity as he hammered Mumbai’s innings with an unbeaten 81 for 177 for 5. The 23-year-old opener, who became the costliest buy in the IPL 2022 auction, was bought back by MI. At Rs 15.25 crore, he proved his mettle as he hit 11 fours and two sixes in his 48-ball unbeaten knock.
After playing a second fiddle with his captain Rohit Sharma (41) inside the power play, Kishan scored his third consecutive fifty for MI and 10th overall. Delhi put the brakes on in the middle overs, in a scintillating 4-0-18-3 bowling effort from Kuldeep Yadav, which included the prized wickets of Rohit and Kieron Pollard (3).
But Kishan held on to the fort, while wickets fell before Mumbai exploded into death, scoring 59 in the final five overs. Mumbai debutant Tilak Verma also impressed with a 15-ball 22 but it was the Jharkhand batsman who stepped on the gas in the death overs and also showed a helicopter shot on aggregate.
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