Warner finishes the game with an effortless pull past midwicket along the fence to punish the drag-down.
PBKS vs DC, 32nd Match at Mumbai, IPL, Apr 20 2022 - Match Result
10.41 pm Perhaps the most one-sided match thus far of the season comes to a close. The IPL bandwagon moves on to the two last-placed teams tomorrow - who would have thunk that Chennai and Mumbai would be fighting for those dubious places? We will see you on the other side for that clash. For the moment, goodbye from scorers Thilak, Chandan, and our commentary team of Ekanth and myself. Stay with ESPNcricinfo for detailed reports and analysis pieces in text and video, in English and Hindi. Goodnight!
Kuldeep Yadav is the Player of the Match. Speaks: "Thank you, but I think the Player of the Match should be shared with Axar Patel, because he took some valuable wickets in the middle overs. I have played with KG (Rabada) a lot and he rarely uses his feet, which is why I decided to give him the wrong 'un. Rishabh told me to go round the wicket for the second wicket. I just decided to keep the pitch full and that's how that wicket fell. Through this IPL, I have been quite confident and mentally clear about what needs to be done. When I err in length, I am not perturbed by it. If my length is good, then I can slip in the wrong 'un and the flipper. I don't see videos at all at this point of time, because I have played against all of these batters. I am just focusing on how I feel. I am enjoying my bowling after a long time, and a lot of credit should go for Rishabh for the way that he backs us bowlers, even when we go for runs. That's a huge positive for us bowlers."
Rishabh Pant speaks at the presentation: "There was a lot of confusion, because we learnt of the positive test in the morning. We were a bit nervous and there were talks of the game getting cancelled. But we spoke as a team that we must purely focus on the match. (On Warner and Shaw) Mostly I like to leave them alone because they know their roles. Delhi Capitals has to go through every game. Results are not in our control, but we have to give everything in our games. On a wicket like this, after one or two overs, I saw the ball was stopping a bit and I thought I should use more spin. I thought 150 would be a good enough score to stop them at."
10.26 pm It's not even half-past 10 and we are already preparing for the presentation. Mixed feelings about how quickly this game got over!
Tinura: "So Ekanth indeed proved to be a "good kid" as Debayan rightly said!" --- Yeah, good in most aspects. Though he is a lousy doubles partner at ping pong
David Warner, 60* (30): The bowlers did a fantastic job to make ours easier. We had to go big in the powerplay. Credit to our bowlers to getting them out. (On being over the run-rate) Was grateful to have gotten to play the game. Form is temporary and class is permanent, I was just trying to be positive and am happy to have played with Shaw. The kids just want to know why I cannot get hundred, and why I cannot do it like Jos, who is hitting sixes as well.
Mayank Agarwal, Punjab Kings Captain: it is a tough one. We did not bat or bowl well, we have to put this behind. Losing too many wickets too early, but I do not want to dig too deep as the more we do it, the more the negatives that will come. 180 was a decent score but we were well short of that. In hindsight, I could have given the spinners an over or two but did not at the time.
9:45 pm: The second innings of this match felt like an afterthought. Warner looked imperious, Shaw went after the bowling and was effective. This win should give Capitals' Net Run Rate a big push on the Points Table.
Charan: "Looks like punjab are 120 runs short.."
Length ball outside off is cut to deep cover to level the scores.
Tucks a slow, good length ball that spins into middle behind square in the gap for one.
Last over of the game?
Afeef: "Hat-trick of fifties for Warner"
Saksham: "53rd IPL fifty. 4 hundreds to go with that. Consistently scoring heavily every season. How is he not considered the most prolific IPL batter ever! Just incredible stuff"
Low full toss outside off is driven to the left of deep cover for one
Full on off, pushed to midoff
Short ball goes across the right hander down leg, Sarfaraz tried to help it on its way with the bat-swing going from down the up but missed it.
Length ball on the stumps is flicked off the backfoot to deep square leg
Warner brings up 50 with a cut, it was a short and wide ball, which was capitalized on with comfort.
Harsha: "Curious to know the most incredible comeback win in IPL history in terms of the win prediction percentage?" From the recent Jarrod article, there was a game between Punjab KIngs and Rajasthan Royals where it went from 100 to 0.
Length ball outside off is turned to third man off the backfoot with an open-faced bat
Raj: "12 from 6… let's do it Warner Bhai " Sarfaraz ain't going big, so yeah...
Blocks a length ball over the stumps to mid-on on the backfoot
Full on middle, Warner stayed legside and whacked a slog-sweep over midwicket. The fielder at the deep had come in because it was the long boundary but it went across and behind to his left and he could not run back.
Reaches out and sweeps a low full toss outside off to deep square leg to bring up 100.
Sits on a knee and pulls a length ball that was dragged back, it was on the body and was stopped well in the deep at square leg
Length outside off, Sarfaraz finally gets hold of one. It is a cut, which was waited for, that goes behind square in the gap. Well away from the deep point fielder who was running in.
Full on the legs, flicked to long-on
Full outside off, pushed to cover
Over the wicket
Full just outside off, flicks it with limited control in the air. Finds mid-on on the bounce
Length outside off, cut off the backfoot to deep cover
Whacks a pull off the length ball, it sails over midwicket past the fence.
Good length ball jumps up outside off, Warner is surprised but he checked the defence with the horizontal bat-face looking at mid-off. It lobbed up but landed safely on its way to the fielder
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Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai | |
Toss | Delhi Capitals, elected to field first |
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Season | 2022 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 20 April 2022 - night (20-over match) |
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Points | Delhi Capitals 2, Punjab Kings 0 |
Over 11 • DC 119/1
DC won by 9 wickets (with 57 balls remaining)