Delhi Capitals (DC) assistant coach Pravin Amre justified his team's decision to use Lalit Yadav in the powerplay during a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. An all-round SRH overcame a scare from Jake Fraser McGurk to register a 67-run win over DC in the IPL 2024. SRH's opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head with their extravagant batting blood of smoked Lalit in the first over of the match, collecting 21 runs with using two limits and 2 maximums.
Delhi captain Rishabh Pant gave Lalit the ball to bowl another over during the powerplay, and the off-spinner conceded 20 runs in the fourth over as SRH raced to 83 without loss in just four overs. In the fourth over, Abhishek Lalit hit Yadav for two sixes and Head hit him for one six. Lalit Yadav did not bowl another over in the match and finished with no wickets and 41 runs in two overs.
The DC coach claimed that the team's management planned to deploy Lalit on the powerplay because of his expertise in the local conditions.
“SRH's strength was the openers. The other teams also had no control over them. We thought Lalit Yadav was a local boy from Delhi so we took a chance on that. We have to give credit to Abhishek for the way he he handled the game.” spinners can be useful because he is a local boy and that is why we gambled on that,” Amre said in a post-match presentation.
“We were thinking of right-left. Last time we saw dew, but unfortunately it wasn't there today, but credit to their batting when they set a record of 125 in powerplay. Credit also to Natarajan for taking wickets in such a way.” a good batting track.
Sunrisers once again relied on the excellent power-hitting of openers Head and Abhishek, who helped them set a record of 125 for 0 in the powerplay, the highest in men's T20 cricket. Head's 32-ball 89 and Abhishek's 46 off 12 balls sealed SRH's match-winning total of 266 for 7 in their 20 overs.
“Credit to the way Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma batted on the powerplay. The intent we showed was incredible. We also saw how Jake Fraser-McGurk can bat in his innings. If he had batted two more overs, we would have We had that Abishek Porel is a finisher, but we wanted to use him in powerplays too,” said the Delhi Capitals assistant coach.
In the match, SRH was put on the field first by DC. Head (89 in 32 balls, with 11 fours and six sixes) and Abhishek (46 in 12 balls, with two fours and six sixes) posted an explosive stand of 131 runs in 6.2 overs. Later, contributions from Shahbaz Ahmed (59* in 29 balls, with two fours and five sixes) and Nitish Kumar (37 in 27 balls, with two fours and two sixes) came in handy to take SRH to 266/7 in their 20 overs .
Kuldeep Yadav was the bowlers' choice for DC with 4/55. Mukesh Kumar and Axar Patel also got a six.
In the run chase, DC managed to keep pace with SRH's run-rate in the first half of their innings despite losing wickets. Knocks from Jake Fraser McGurk (65 in 18 balls, five fours and seven sixes) and Abhishek Porel (42 in 22 balls, with seven fours and a six) kept the Capitals alive. However, after their dismissal, DC lost momentum and despite skipper Rishabh Pant's fighting (44 in 35 balls, with five fours and a six), the Capitals were restricted to 199 in 19.1 overs.
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