On Tuesday, May 2 in Ahmedabad, the Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated the Gujarat Titans (GT) by five runs in the IPL 2023 season. Since GT remained in the lead, neither group’s position in the table changed, and DC remain at the bottom of the focus table. In the current IPL season. Wriddhiman Saha, the keeper, took all three of his subsequent wickets by mistake.
DC recovered to reach a respectable score of 130/8 in their 20 overs thanks to Aman Khan’s courageous half-century (51 runs off 44 balls) and significant cameos from Axar Patel (27 runs off 30 balls) and Ripal Patel (23 runs off 13 balls). The DC bowlers took advantage of the fine bowling conditions to reduce the hosts to 32/4 in 6.4 overs, and GT also had trouble early on.
With GT requiring 33 from the last two overs, Rahul Tewatia (20 runs off 7 balls) carried the hosts close with three sequential sixes in the penultimate over. Ishant Sharma, on the other hand, brilliantly defended 12 runs in the final over against dangerous batsmen like Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, and Hardik Pandya.
1) Mohammed Shami wins the POTM grant for top notch bowling spell
Mohammed Shami had a fortunate start to the match when Phil Salt hit an overpitched delivery straight into David Miller’s hands at cover off the first ball of the innings. Shami then bowled the best IPL 2023 opening spell. He got batters to drive and edge the ball to the keeper by swinging it like a Test match. Wriddhiman Saha, the keeper, took all three of his subsequent wickets by mistake.
Shami was just unplayable as he excused Phil Salt, Priyam Garg, Manish Pandey, and Rilee Rossouw. shami took four wickets and only gave up 11 runs in four overs, a stunning economy rate of 2.75. Shami won the Player of the Match award for his spell, even though GT lost the game. With 17 wickets in nine games and an excellent economy rate of 7.05, he also won the Purple Cap.
2) Hardik Pandya scores a battling 50 years for GT
On a difficult track, GT captain Hardik Pandya, who hasn’t had many runs lately, hit a fine half-century. Pandya’s innings of 59* runs off 53 balls was not his best, but he stuck in the middle and played with real maturity and composure. In a measured outing, the captain hit seven fours. Some could contend that his sluggish innings added to GT’s inevitable misfortune.
However, he had to play an innings like Aman Khan did for DC because his team was reduced to 32/4 in the first seven overs. His confidence in the upcoming games will greatly benefit from an innings of this character in difficult conditions against a high-quality attack, regardless of the outcome.
3) Yet again, Rahul Tewatia’s heroisms impress.
On a day when batters struggled to score even at a run-a-ball, Rahul Tewatia was effortlessly playing the big shots, demonstrating once more why he is one of the best Tewatia scored 20 runs off seven balls. With GT needing 33 runs from two overs, the game appeared to be over.
In six innings this year, Tewatia has been excused just a single time, scoring 63 runs at a normal of 63 at a surprising strike-pace of 203.22.