DC vs PBKS, IPL 2023 HIGHLIGHTS: Punjab Beat Delhi To Knock Them Out Of Race To Playoffs
DC vs PBKS HIGHLIGHTS: Delhi became the first team to officially get knocked out of the race to the Playoffs.
PBKS win! They win by 31 runs and knock DC out of the race to Playoffs. DC end their innings at 136/8 despite the kind of start they got.
The match has turned and how. Delhi Capitals need 122/7 in 17 overs. They need 46 runs in 18 balls. PBKS spinners the real hero for Punjab. Harpreet Brar the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4 for 30.
WICKET! Two wickets in quick succession now. Marsh falls to Rahul Chahar, out LBW. DC- 74/2 in 7.2 Overs.
Brar has got the first breakthrough for PBKS. He removes Salt for 21. DC- 69/1 in 6.2 Overs. Marsh joins Warner.
What a start for DC. Exactly what they would have wanted. They end the powerplay at 65/0 with Warner unbeaten on 48 off 21 and Salt batting on 17 off 15.
David Warner and Phil Salt open the innings for DC. Rishi Dhawan and Sam Curran started with the ball for PBKS. The third over was bowled by Harpreet Brar. DC- 29/0 after 3 overs.
167/7- that's what PBKS manage after DC opt to bowl first. Singh the stand out batter today with a ton. He scored 103 off 65 balls.
Maiden IPL hundred for Prabhsimran Singh. He has got there off 61 balls. What a knock under the circumstances. PBKS- 153/5 in 17.4 overs.
Sam Curran departs. He has fallen for 20 off 24 just when PBKS wanted him to shift gears. Punjab- 117/4 in 14.4 Overs.
Axar Patel took the third wicket for DC in the sixth over. Post that, it's been a slow and steady inninngs progression for PBKS. At the halfway stage, Punjab are 66/3 with Prabhsimran Singh (27 off 31) and Sam Curran (12 off 14) out in the middle both striking at less than 100 at the moment.
Change of ends for Ishant Sharma and he has a wicket first ball. Liam Livingstone with a dance down the track but he misses and Ishant rattles his stumps. PBKS- 32/2 in 4.1 overs.
WICKET!! Ishant Sharma strikes. His first ball had gone for a six off the blade of Dhawan but the very next has produced the wicket. Caught at deep square leg on a ball that was angles in to left-handed Dhawan's legs from round the wicket. PBKS- 10/1 in 1.2 overs.
Prabhsimran Singh and Shikhar Dhawan open the innings for PBKS. Khaleel Ahmed and Ishant Sharma the new ball bowlers for DC.
Impact Subs:
DC: Manish Pandey, Ripal Patel, Lalit Yadav, Chetan Sakariya, Abishek Porel
PBKS: Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Matthew Short, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Mohit Rathee
Playing XIs:
DC: David Warner (captain), Philip Salt (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Marsh, Rilee Rossouw, Aman Hakim Khan, Axar Patel, Praveen Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar
PBKS: Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh
Team News coming in just a bit.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of DC vs PBKS , IPL 2023 fixture. The News from the centre is that DC have won the toss and opted to bowl first.
Background
Delhi Capitals will lock horns against Punjab Kings in match number 59 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Both sides are on the lower half of the points table as of now. While PBKS are at the eighth place with 10 points from 11 matches, DC find themselves languishing at the bottom of the table with 8 points from 11 matches. With both teams set to play just 3 more games including this one, they would want to give themselves the best possible chance of finishing inside the top four.
A defeat here would mean end of the road for Delhi Capitals this season. Even wins in their remaining games will not be enough to help them get to the Playoffs as they would then also have to hope for other results in their favour. The situation can still well be in their own hands for PBKS who need to win by big margins to help them improve their net run rate which is currently the third worst on the table.
Both these sides haven't yet faced off in this season and as far as the overall head-to-head record this season is concerned, there is absolutely nothing that differentiates between the two teams. In the last five matches between the two teams though DC have emerged victorious four times which would give them a psychological advantage heading into this game.
However, both teams would be well aware that when the actual action commences, it's about who plays the better brand of cricket on that particular day that actually goes on to win the contest.
All in all, this could be a cracker jacker of a game.
Probable Playing XIs (including impact sub)
DC: David Warner, Phil Salt, Mitchell Marsh, Manish Pandey, Rilee Rossouw/Rovman Powell, Axar Patel, Aman Khan, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma
PBKS: Shikhar Dhawan, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Sikandar Raza, Sam Curran, Shahrukh Khan, Rishi Dhawan, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis
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