NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals overwhelmed Rajasthan Royals' play-off hopes with a convincing five-wicket victory to complete off the league campaign in the ongoing IPL on a top note on Saturday.
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Already through to the play-offs, Delhi Capitals first rode on veterans Ishant Sharma and Amit Mishra's excellent efforts with the bowl to limit Rajasthan Royals to 115 for nine after which chased down the target in 16.1 overs, with Rishabh Pant ultimate unbeaten on a 38-ball 53.
The win lifted Delhi to the second one spot in the standings with 18 points from 14 video games however to complete as second perfect side, the Capitals would want Mumbai Indians to lose in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday.
A win for Mumbai would routinely drop Delhi to the third spot as they have got an inferior web run-rate.
Rajasthan are out of the tournament, completing with just 11 points from 14 video games.
Chasing a modest goal, Delhi made a fast get started through Shikhar Dhawan (16) and Prithvi Shaw (eight) ahead of Ish Sodhi (three/26) got rid of both the openers in consecutive balls to present himself a hat-trick probability.
Sodhi first removed Dhawan, in the second one ball of the fourth over, holed out by Riyan Parag after which Shaw performed at the subsequent supply.
Skipper Shreyas Iyer (15 off nine) and Rishabh then added 33 runs off 25 balls for the third wicket ahead of the previous was holed out by Liam Livingstone off Shreyas Gopal.
While Delhi lost two more wickets in the form of Colin Ingram (12) and Sherfane Rutherford (11), Rishabh carried on his bat and completed off the chase by hitting Sodhi for a large six over long-leg off and in the process also notched up his fifty.
Rishabh's unbeaten knock was studded with two fours and 5 hits over the fence.
Earlier, Ishant (three/38) did the early injury ahead of leg-spinner Mishra (three/17) got here to the birthday celebration to rock Rajasthan's innings.
Young Parag (50 off 49, 4x4s, 2x6s) was the lone vivid spot for Rajasthan as he held on to one fortress and notched up his maiden IPL fifty to take the guests just about the 120-run mark.
Rajasthan had a disastrous begin to their innings after opting to bat as they have been reduced to 30 for four on the end of the first six overs of powerplay with Ishant doing bulk of the wear and tear.
Ishant struck in the second one over, taking out Rajasthan skipper Ajinkya Rahane (2) after which got here back an over later to clean up Livingstone (14).
To make matters worse for the guests, in-form Sanju Samson (five) fell victim to an useless mix up with Mahipal Lomror in the subsequent over.
Lomror (eight) didn't assist his cause both as he handed Ishant his third wicket of the day, nicking one to Rishabh at the back of the stumps.
Parag and Gopal attempted to stabilise the innings with a 27-run fifth-wicket stand ahead of Mishra scalped two wickets in consecutive deliveries in the 12th over to disturb Rajasthan's resistance.
Mishra first foxed Gopal (12) to be stumped by Rishabh after which prompted a faint edge from new guy Stuart Binny, which again Rishabh obliged. This gave Mishra an opportunity for registering a hat-trick.
The leg-spinner was neatly not off course of scalping a hat-trick however Trent Boult dropped a sitter at long-off handy Krishnappa Gowtham life.
However, Mishra were given his guy an over later as Gowatham gave a instantly ahead catch to Ishant at long-off and Rajasthan slumped to 65 for seven.
Parag opened up late and smacked Ishant for 2 fours to pick out up 18 runs off the 17th over after which smashed Boult for 2 sixes in the final over ahead of perishing in the last ball of the innings.
IPL Schedule | IPL Points Table | Scorecard
Already through to the play-offs, Delhi Capitals first rode on veterans Ishant Sharma and Amit Mishra's excellent efforts with the bowl to limit Rajasthan Royals to 115 for nine after which chased down the target in 16.1 overs, with Rishabh Pant ultimate unbeaten on a 38-ball 53.
The win lifted Delhi to the second one spot in the standings with 18 points from 14 video games however to complete as second perfect side, the Capitals would want Mumbai Indians to lose in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday.
A win for Mumbai would routinely drop Delhi to the third spot as they have got an inferior web run-rate.
Rajasthan are out of the tournament, completing with just 11 points from 14 video games.
Chasing a modest goal, Delhi made a fast get started through Shikhar Dhawan (16) and Prithvi Shaw (eight) ahead of Ish Sodhi (three/26) got rid of both the openers in consecutive balls to present himself a hat-trick probability.
Sodhi first removed Dhawan, in the second one ball of the fourth over, holed out by Riyan Parag after which Shaw performed at the subsequent supply.
Skipper Shreyas Iyer (15 off nine) and Rishabh then added 33 runs off 25 balls for the third wicket ahead of the previous was holed out by Liam Livingstone off Shreyas Gopal.
While Delhi lost two more wickets in the form of Colin Ingram (12) and Sherfane Rutherford (11), Rishabh carried on his bat and completed off the chase by hitting Sodhi for a large six over long-leg off and in the process also notched up his fifty.
Rishabh's unbeaten knock was studded with two fours and 5 hits over the fence.
Earlier, Ishant (three/38) did the early injury ahead of leg-spinner Mishra (three/17) got here to the birthday celebration to rock Rajasthan's innings.
Young Parag (50 off 49, 4x4s, 2x6s) was the lone vivid spot for Rajasthan as he held on to one fortress and notched up his maiden IPL fifty to take the guests just about the 120-run mark.
Rajasthan had a disastrous begin to their innings after opting to bat as they have been reduced to 30 for four on the end of the first six overs of powerplay with Ishant doing bulk of the wear and tear.
Ishant struck in the second one over, taking out Rajasthan skipper Ajinkya Rahane (2) after which got here back an over later to clean up Livingstone (14).
To make matters worse for the guests, in-form Sanju Samson (five) fell victim to an useless mix up with Mahipal Lomror in the subsequent over.
Lomror (eight) didn't assist his cause both as he handed Ishant his third wicket of the day, nicking one to Rishabh at the back of the stumps.
Parag and Gopal attempted to stabilise the innings with a 27-run fifth-wicket stand ahead of Mishra scalped two wickets in consecutive deliveries in the 12th over to disturb Rajasthan's resistance.
Mishra first foxed Gopal (12) to be stumped by Rishabh after which prompted a faint edge from new guy Stuart Binny, which again Rishabh obliged. This gave Mishra an opportunity for registering a hat-trick.
The leg-spinner was neatly not off course of scalping a hat-trick however Trent Boult dropped a sitter at long-off handy Krishnappa Gowtham life.
However, Mishra were given his guy an over later as Gowatham gave a instantly ahead catch to Ishant at long-off and Rajasthan slumped to 65 for seven.
Parag opened up late and smacked Ishant for 2 fours to pick out up 18 runs off the 17th over after which smashed Boult for 2 sixes in the final over ahead of perishing in the last ball of the innings.
IPL 2019: Delhi crush Rajasthan's play-off hopes
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