DC vs KKR, IPL 2023 HIGHLIGHTS: Delhi Taste First Win, Beat Kolkata By 4 Wickets
DC vs KKR HIGHLIGHTS: DC tasted their first win of IPL 2023 with a 4-wicket win over KKR at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Thursday.
Delhi win! They left it for a bit too late for their liking but a win for them nonetheless, with 4 wickets in hand and 4 balls to spare. Warner's half-century set up the foundation of the run-chase. Axar Patel with the winning runs there for DC.
Warner helps DC off to blistering start. He keeps going despite Shaw's wicket.
Prithvi Shaw and David Warner open the innings for DC in the run-chase.
END OF INNINGS! Andre Russell's innings has taken KKR to 127. He remains unbeatean on 38 off 31.
KKR- 96/9, another one goes down. Anrich Nortje gets rid of Umesh Yadav.
Kolkata are eight down under 100. Ishant Sharma, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar, Anrich Nortje are the wicket-takers so far for Delhi.
KKR lose another wicket, Venkatesh Iyer walks back to the dressing room inside the powerplay.
WICKET! Litton Das has to go back. Mukesh Kumar gets his man.
Jason Roy, Litton Das choose open the innings for KKR. Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar sharing the new-ball for DC.
Team News:
Delhi Capitals: David Warner (captain), Mitchell Marsh, Manish Pandey, Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Lalit Yadav, Aman Khan, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Impact Subs: Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Sarfaraz Khan, Chetan Sakariya, Ripal Patel
Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Litton Das (wicketkeeper), Jason Roy, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana (captain), Rinku Singh, Mandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy, Umesh Yadav, Kulwant Khejroliya.
Impact Subs: Anukul, Vaibhav, Weise, Suyash, Jagadeesan
TOSS: DC choose to bowl first against KKR.
UPDATE FROM THE GROUND: Toss at 08:15 pm (IST). No overs have been lost.
Update: Covers are getting removed. Inspection in just a bit.
There has been heavy rain and hailstorm in Delhi-NCR which has brought some respite to people amid scorching heat but that has delayed the game. No update yet on Toss.
BIG NEWS: Toss has been delayed due to rain.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of match 28 of IPL 2023. It will be the Delhi Capitals taking on the Kolkata Knight Riders in this fixture coming your way live from the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Background
Delhi Capitals (DC) will lock horns with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in match number 28 of IPL 2023. While Delhi find themselves at the bottom of the points table and have just not been able to get going, having faced losses in each of their five matches so far, Kolkata have 2 wins and 3 defeats from their five matches and are at the seventh place on the points table.
The good thing is that at least the Delhi captain David Warner hasn't given up hope for the remainder of the season. He has gone on record saying how in the past teams from similar situations have gone on to secure a place in the Playoffs and in some cases even life the trophy. Having said that, it would be a difficult thing to walk the talk and actually change the result with quote a few things not working for them this season including the strike rate at which Warner has batted.
To make matters worse for them, a few of their players have lost their bats in the transit which is unncessary chaos really, especially for a team which has to deal with cricketing headaches already. Delhi's bowling hasn't been too good but it is their batters who have been an out and out flop with Warner and Prithvi Shaw making one of the most terrible opening pairs of the season.
Kolkata too haven't been too successful in that aspect. But at least they have a couple of batters in Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh in form with Nitish Rana also having a good half-century behind his back. The rest of the setup needs to step up like their pacers. Their spinners have been their best department.
All in all, this looks set to be a cracker jacker of a game.
Possible Starting XIs:
Delhi Capitals: David Warner (captain), Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Yash Dhull, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Aman Khan, Abishek Porel (wk), Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje
Kolkata Knight Riders: Jason Roy/Rahmanullah Gurbaz, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakaravarthy
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