DC vs LSG Highlights: KL Rahul-led Lucknow Super Giants, playing their first-ever home game since joining Indian Premier League (IPL) last year, defeated Delhi Capitals by 50 runs to start their IPL 2023 campaign on a positive note. Overall, it was a clinical performance from LSG. After Mayers set the tone for win with his batting heroics, a special bowling spell by Mark Wood (5 wickets for 14 runs) completely derailed the innings of Delhi Capitals.
Kyle Mayers unleashed his fury on Delhi Capitals bowlers as he produced a scintillating 38-ball-73 epic to help Lucknow Super Giants post a mammoth 193/6 against Delhi Capitals in their season-opener. Mayers, who was added last minute to the Lucknow Super Giants team in South African legend Quinton De Kock's absence, made his opponents pay a big price for dropping his catch when he was batting on 14. Mayers went on to score his fifty off just 28 balls fifty, an innings which was laced up with as many as seven huge sixes. Mayers also stitched an important partnership (79 runs in 42 balls) with Deepak Hooda (17, 18b) to keep the flow of runs intact in middle overs.
Hooda and Mayers returned back to the dugout in space of one ball, while Marcus Stoinis (12) got out cheaply in the middle overs. Krunal Pandya (15) and Nicholas Pooran (36) batted with caution, dealing in ones and twos to stop DC from taking another quick wicket. Ayush Badoni's late blitz (18; 7b, 1x4, 2x6) and a last ball six from 'Impact Substitute' Krishnappa Gowtham yielded 22 runs from the 20th over bowled by Chetan Sakariya (2/53).
The last five overs produced 66 runs, primarily due to Pooran and Badoni using long handles to good effect.
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): David Warner(c), Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Rilee Rossouw, Sarfaraz Khan(w), Rovman Powell, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Chetan Sakariya, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KL Rahul(c), Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran(w), Ayush Badoni, Mark Wood, Jaydev Unadkat, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan