Live report - DC lose 5 for 33 after Karun Nair 83 as MI clinch thriller

Mumbai Indians clinched a thriller they had no business winning; not certainly after a comeback knock for the ages from Karun Nair, who smashed a 40-ball 89. But Karn Sharma, their Impact Sub, cracked open the game with a three-wicket haul, to cause an implosion that ended with a hat-trick of run outs in the penultimate over.

It meant there are no unbeaten teams left at IPL 2025; Delhi Capitals would rue the two points that were stolen right from under their nose, disrupting their run of four straight wins, as their homecoming at the Arun Jaitley Stadium was met with a heartbreak no one saw coming.

For MI, this was only their second win in six games, but it’s one that’ll reinvigorate a campaign that threatened to turn pear-shaped less than halfway in.

Ashutosh. Kuldeep. Now, Mohit.

DC's winning march has come to a grinding halt. MI pull off a game they had no business winning.

Hara-kiri from DC.

What a match!

losses like this can be a real momentum killer. DC would believe they've lost two points that have been plucked out from their bag.

Ashutosh's decision to run a second after squeezing the ball to deep point proves costly. Not because the second wasn't on, but because he had to run around Bumrah as he turned around for the second. It cost him a fraction of a second, enough for him to be run out at the striker's end. DC need 14 off eight, two wickets in hand.

Refuses a single off the first ball off Bumrah, and then reverse ramps a high full toss to the boundary to bring the equation down to 19 off 10. Bumrah responds with a yorker that's honing in on off-stump, but Ashutosh throws his bat at that to get a thick edge that runs away between the keeper and short-third. It's down to 15 off nine.

Six of those balls will be bowled by Bumrah, whose figures read 3-0-34-1. Can he comeback and seal the game for MI?

If MI end up winning this, Santner's contribution would've been massive.

His ball of the innings - drift, ripping turn - to square Karun Nair up and have him bowled cracked open the game. Then, after conceding a six and a four, he roars back to have Vipraj Nigam stumped with a tossed up delivery with DC attempting a jailbreak, like they did in their tournament opener against LSG.

DC need 26 off 14, as Starc walks out to join Ashutosh.

Five Yorkers. Incredible.

Karn Sharma, who came on as an Impact Sub, picks up his third wicket. KL Rahul has a swipe at this tossed up delivery, top-edges the slog-sweep and lobs it straight back up to the bowler. DC need 46 off 27, but only have four wickets left. It's all on Ashutosh to see this through with Vipraj and the lower order.

DC lost 3/10, including the massive strikes of Karun, Axar and Stubbs. Interestingly, the ball was changed in the 13th over because of heavy dew. Remember last year, when MS Dhoni hit a wet ball out of the park, and the was caught trying to clear the boundary with a drier ball that gripped into the deck a bit more?

The chase is now all on Rahul and Ashutosh. They need 55 off 36, very manageable. Bumrah has one more.

Beats Karun with square turn to hit top of off. Karun seemingly played for the one to drift in and skid through with the dew. But that ball gripped and turned. A comeback century isn't to be, but the Kotla applauds a stellar knock - 89 off 40 in his first IPL innings in three years.

Porel began the over with a six, before he holed out in the deep. Karun then took over, playing a switch hit and then sweeping Karn to deep backward square. He's joined by KL Rahul in the middle.

Karun had a shot of pickle juice between overs to prevent cramping.

Since getting to a half-century, he has premeditated twice in consecutive deliveries off Karn Sharma and missed. Then he miscues a lofted hit that lands short of cover. A short-arm jab off Hardik takes the inside edge and bounces to the keeper.

He shreds that rough patch by backing away to scythe Hardik for a flat six over point. DC 113/1 in 10 overs

The final over of the Powerplay goes for 18 as Karun picks Bumrah for two sixes and a four. The first six is a whip of the wrists to pick a length ball and send it over deep square. The second is a lofted inside-out hit to clear wide long-off.

Bumrah's figures currently read 2-0-29-0

Bumrah is brought on in the 4th to try and give MI a semblance of control, but two balls in, Karun backs away and lofts him through the line over cover. And then when he shortens his length, Karun stays besides the line and slaps him between cover and point. DC 44/1 in 4 overs.

A cover drive on the up, a crunching cut shot and a scorcher off a half-volley. DC up and running.

Karun Nair captained Delhi (Daredevils) Capitals for three games in IPL 2017. When designated captain Zaheer Khan was injured. He comes in on the back of a monstrous domestic season. He hit 779 runs in eight innings, with five consecutive hundreds in the domestic 50-overs competition in December.

A golden duck for McGurk, a toe-crusher for Karun Nair in his first IPL innings in three years, a crunching cover drive first ball from Abishek Porel - DC's first over against Deepak Chahar was quite an eventful one. They're 6/1 chasing 206.

Tilak Varma was subbed out two games ago for being unable to force the pace. In his first outing after that, he made 56 off 29 in a tall run chase against RCB. On Sunday, he top scored with 59 off 43 to help Mumbai Indians post 205 for 5 after being put in to bat by Delhi Capitals in their first home game of IPL 2025 at Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Tilak’s knock provided the base and Naman Dhir’s the finishing kick. The hard-hitting Dhir, a floater in the batting order, hit 38 off just 17; his fifth-wicket stand off 60 off 33 with Tilak helping them recover from the wickets of Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya in the space of six deliveries.

DC’s wristspin twins Kuldeep Yadav and Vipraj Nigam struck vital blows, picking up combined figures of 4 for 64 off eight overs. Meanwhile, Axar Patel, the captain, bowled just two overs, seemingly mindful of match-ups, especially with Tilak at the crease.

The evening began in sparkling fashion for MI when Rohit Sharma imperiously drove Mitchell Starc for two fours, and scooped him for six. But Rohit’s intent to keep going had him fall over trying to sweep Vipraj off his lengths to be given out lbw for 18.

Ryan Rickelton blazed away at the other end, as did Suryakumar, who flicked his first ball for six after being sent in at No. 3 for the first time this season. Rickelton was particularly impressive off Starc, picking him for two fours in the very first over when he overpitched trying to get late swing.

Kuldeep Yadav got into the game in his very first over, the eighth of the innings, when he delivered a ripping goggly to breach Rickelton’s defence. That brought Tilak in at No. 4 and he was up and away immediately with a succession of sweep shots, including a reverse pick-up shot.

Tilak was reprieved on 20 when Jake Fraser-McGurk put down at skier at long-on to deny Vipraj, but DC didn’t have to wait long enough for a wicket as Kuldeep had Suryakumar mistime a lofted hit off a wrong’un to long-off.

That turned out to be a double-strike when Vipraj was rewarded for his persistence, as he beat Hardik in the air and had him slice a catch to long-off while attempting to clear the short straight boundary. That wicket brought Tilak and Dhir to the crease, who batted through the rest of the innings to help MI get past the 200-mark.

Mukesh from short third. Ashutosh from point. Both trying to catch this slice off Tilak as he tries to flay Mohit's slower ball. Neither catches it as they collide chest-on. Both of them are on the ground, but they're quickly helped back up. Tilak was on 54 off 29. With nine balls left, how many more can he ransack?

Remember SKY's catch at Barbados? Axar does something almost similar, except he isn't able to have full control of the ball to try and lob it back. But what he does wonderfully is he holds his balance and does enough to release the ball just before he crosses the advertising triangles. Naman Dhir had given it some treatment and thought he's get six, but only gets one. The 18th goes for 13 nonetheless. MI 180/4.

50 off 29 v RCB

50* off 26 v DC tonight.

Vipraj was taken for runs off good deliveries, but persists and sends Hardik back before the death overs. It's the drift that does Hardik in as he looks to go straight and ends up slicing it to long-off. MI 138/4 in 14.1 overs.

Vipraj deceived Tilak in the air, and had him drag one towards wide long-on where Jake Fraser-McGurk overruns the ball, and then back-pedals to take the skier, only to miss. It also got tougher for him because Tristan Stubbs was running around from deep midwicket and was in his peripheral vision. Tilak was on 20. Only time will tell how costly that'll prove to be. But DC have struck in the next over as Kuldeep has SKY caught at long-off.

He has hit each of his four boundaries - three fours and a six - in the arc between long leg and deep square. The six was a pick-up shot, while each of the three fours have come off sweeps. He's on 24 off 20 as MI 104/2 in 11 overs.

Spinners have left their imprint in each of MI's four defeats.

Noor Ahmad (4/18) at Chepauk. Sai Kishore (1/37) at Ahmedabad. Digvesh Rathi (1/21) at Lucknow. Krunal Pandya (4/45) at Mumbai. Will it be Kuldeep Yadav tonight?

The start is promising as he bowls a ripping wrong'un to clean up Rickelton. He didn't pick it, and the ball spun in off a length to beat the inside edge.

SKY is sent in at No. 3 for the first time this season, and he starts with a flick for six over long leg. Mukesh fed him to his strengths - a half-tracker angling down - and SKY played the perfect pick-up. MI 73/1 in 7 overs

Coming into this match, MI had the second-lowest run-rate (7.9) against spin. Wonder how much of that played a part in Rohit trying to immediately throw Vipraj Nigam off his lengths by trying to bring out the full-blooded sweep. He misses and is trapped plumb in front, as the on-field decision of not-out is overturned on DRS. MI 47/1 in 5 overs.

Twice now, Mukesh Kumar has had problems closing out the over well.

In his first over, he conceded a six off a half-tracker in the fifth delivery. In his second, after having given just two off the first five, he bowls a wide hit-me ball that's pummelled through the covers.

Prior to today, Rohit had hit 56 runs off 28 balls in this match-up, while being dismissed twice. Clearly, Rohit hasn't held himself back in trying to play him out.

Right on cue, Rohit has already hit him for two fours and a six in an expensive 19-run third over.

The two fours are sumptuous - the first is driven through the line all along the carpet and the second is lofted imperiously over the infield. The six is off a big, fat top-edge as he attempts to scoop a full delivery angling away.

Mitchell Starc overpitches twice in search of late swing. He first gets flicked through midwicket. And then when he corrects his line, he gets driven imperiously through extra cover. There is some movement in the air for him, though. MI 11/0 in 1 over

Axar Patel won the toss as Delhi Capitals, the only unbeaten team at IPL 2025, elected to chase in their first home fixture at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

Faf du Plessis, who returned from a groin strain for the game against RCB three days ago, misses out again. The rest of DC’s line-up remains the same, with a new Impact Player likely to come in.

Coming off a five-day break, Mumbai Indians are unchanged from their previous fixture against RCB. They’re currently ninth with one win in five games, but Hardik underlined the need to stay calm.

He also felt they were “not far from having a good game” but admitted the margin for error is very minimal.

“We’re trying not to hit the panic button, it’s about remaining calm and if we back each other, we’d be able to turn things around," he said. "The IPL is a long tournament, if you don’t catch up it becomes difficult in the end. We don’t have much margin for error.”

Delhi Capitals: 1 Jake Fraser-McGurk, 2 Abishek Porel, 3 KL Rahul (wk), 4 Axar Patel (capt.), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Ashutosh Sharma, 7 Vipraj Nigam, 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Mohit Sharma

Mumbai Indians: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Ryan Rickelton (wk), 3 Will Jacks, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Hardik Pandya (capt), 7 Naman Dhir, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Jasprit Bumrah