Delhi Capitals Beats Rajasthan Royals By 6 Wickets, Moved To First Position In Point Table

Mumbai: Match 40 clashes between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals both teams will be looking to get momentum to move towards playoffs.

With the help of Ajinkya Rahane’s power pack, performance RR managed to score 191 runs. Rahane played one of the best knocks till now scored 105 of just 63 balls, Sanju Samson didn’t open his account lost his wicket at the duck.

Meantime, Steve Smith played a captain knock of 50 runs off 32 runs other than this middle order didn’t contribute well due to which RR falls short of nearly 20 to 30 runs. It was a small cameo by Stuart Binny scored 19 off 13 balls.

For Delhi Capitals Rabada took 2 wickets his side following Ishant and Axer provide 1 wicket each for their side.

Chasing the huge target of 192 runs Delhi Capitals started of well Shikhar Dhawan scored 54 runs just 27 balls but failed to convert it into to big score as he lost his wicket to Shreyas Gopal.

Meantime Prithvi Shaw was not able to time the ball well, which created pressure on another side to captain Shreyas Iyer which forced him to play a loose shot and lost his wicket to Riyan Parag scored just 4 runs. Late on Shaw lost his wicket to Shreyas Gopal pressure made him choose wrong shot scored 42 runs for his side.

It was Rishabh Pant who played at 5th gear scored 78 off just 36 balls by which Delhi Capitals registered their seventh win of the season and moved to the top slot of the points table.

For RR it will be difficult from now to make them come back in the game as they have lost Seven matches of their ten games.