Rahul ticks off another landmark
5000 Runs for Rahul in the IPL
Fewest innings for 5000 runs in the IPL:
130 - KL Rahul
135 - David Warner
157 - Virat Kohli
161 - AB de Villiers
168 - Shikhar Dhawan
135 - David Warner
157 - Virat Kohli
161 - AB de Villiers
168 - Shikhar Dhawan
And Rahul finishes off the chase with a six. Thanks for tuning in here. The full report will be up on the site shortly.
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Fifty for Rahul
KL Rahul was unavailable when DC met Lucknow Super Giants LSG earlier in IPL 2025. Coming up against LSG for the first time since they parted ways, Rahul has anchored DC's chase with a half-century and is guiding them home along with his captain Axar Patel.
Rahul gets to his landmark with a clipped single off Prince and raises his bat to every corner of the Ekana.
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The curious case of Pant
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Porel gone
Markram has Porel holing out for 51 off 36 balls, but the requirement - 55 off 49 balls - is still pretty much under control for DC. Rahul has stepped up a gear, and his captain Axar has now joined him.
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Rahul, Porel attack spin
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Rahul, Porel take 16 runs off Bishnoi's second over. Along the way Porel brought up his half-century off 33 balls, his first this season.
Rahul starts the next over, bowled by Markram, by charging at him and launching him for a straight six.
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Have your say
Who is the best spinner on show tonight?
642 votesKuldeep Yadav
Digvesh Rathi
Axar Patel
Ravi Bishnoi
Vipraj Nigam
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Rahul, Porel build for DC
Rahul is off to a slow but steady start. He's on 16 off 16 balls. He's not taking any risks, especially against spin. At the other end, Porel has also slowed down after the powerplay. But the asking rate is still under control and DC have batting depth down to No.8, where Nigam will likely bat. SA finisher Donnovan Ferreira might come in as an Impact sub ahead of Nigam.
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Markram gets rid of Nair
Nair threw the first punch at Markram when he stepped away and pumped the offspinner over his head for six. Nair tries to manufacture swinging room off the next ball as well, but Nair chases him with a quick dart and has Nair deflecting the ball back onto his stumps off the pads. DC are 36 for 1 in the fourth over. KL Rahul in at No.3 against his former team.
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Porel, Nair start positively for DC
After Nair drives Thakur for back-to-back boundaries in the first over, which brings DC 15 runs, Porel steps out to Prince and crashes a four past him. DC are 28 for 0 in three overs
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Mukesh leads the line as DC restrict LSG to 159
Lucknow Super Giants 159 for 6 (Markram 52, Marsh 45, Mukesh 4-33) vs Delhi Capitals
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) started well after being put in at the Ekana Stadium, but Mukesh Kumar led a remarkable Delhi Capitals (DC) fightback to restrict the hosts to 159 for 6, their lowest total in IPL 2025. After being on 87 for 0 in the tenth over, LSG managed only 72 off the last ten.
LSG captain Rishabh Pant didn't walk out to bat until his team was five down, with just two balls left in their innings. After stepping out to his first ball and missing, he didn't connect with a reverse-ramp next ball and ended up deflecting the ball back onto the stumps off his pads for a duck. Mukesh came away with figures of 4-0-33-4.
Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh had dominated the powerplay, taking LSG to 51 for 0. It was Dushmantha Chameera, who was playing his first game of the season, who ended the opening stand on 87, when he had Markram holing out to sweeper cover for 52 off 33 balls.
Having taken the new ball, Axar bowled four overs on the trot, conceding 29 off them. This allowed him to backload Kuldeep's overs. Kuldeep bowled the 11th, 13th, 15th and 17th, conceding 33 runs for no wickets.
Mukesh struck twice in the 14th over, dismissing Abdul Samad (2), who was promoted to No.4 and Marsh (45). Impact Player Ayush Badoni's 36 off 21 balls gave LSG's total a modicum of respectability before Mukesh cleaned him and Pant up in the last over. At the break, Badoni suggested that though the pitch was slow, 180 was the par score. At the toss, Axar had reckoned that dew would make conditions easier for batting during the chase.
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Pant comes in at No.7 and goes
Pant walks in at No.7 and goes for a two-ball duck. The last time Rishabh Pant batted at No. 7 or lower in his T20 career was in IPL 2016. LSG manage 159 for 6 in 20 overs
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Still no Pant
LSG have responded to Mukesh's double-strike by bringing in Badoni as an Impact Player. Badoni could've been dismissed on 3 by Mukesh in his next over had Stubbs not dropped him at sweeper cover. Stubbs is filthy with himself.
But still no Pant yet. They also can't use tearaway Mayank's bowling during their defence
Pant's right hand is strapped quite heavily. At the toss, though, Pant said that his hand was fine.
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Mukesh gets Samad, Marsh
Samad has been excellent as a finisher this IPL for LSG. Tonight, they ask him to rebuild an innings and bump him up to No.4. He goes for 2 off 8 balls, offering Mukesh a return catch. LSG are 107 for 3 in the 14th over. No Pant yet for LSG. Miller in at No.5
In the same over, Mukesh yorks Marsh to leave LSG at 110 for 4 in 14 overs. Reverse? That will excite Starc. What an over from Mukesh: just three runs and two wickets!
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Starc vs Pooran
3 No. of times Starc has dismissed Pooran in three IPL innings. Pooran has managed only five runs off five balls from the left-arm quick in the IPL
Sampath Bandarupalli: Pooran's average of 2.4 against Mitchell Starc is the joint-lowest for a top-six batter against a bowler in men's T20s, for a minimum of five dismissals (where BBB data is available). Kumar Sangakkara also has an average of 2.4 against Rahul Sharma
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DC bounce back with double-strike
After bringing up his fifty, Markram looks to take more risks. He tries to clear the bigger boundary on the off side but ends up finding his SA team-mate Stubbs at the cover boundary. Gone for 52 off 33 balls. Starc then bests Pooran with a slower bouncer for 9 off 5 balls. LSG are 99 for 2 in the 12th over. Samad promoted to No.4 ahead of Pant
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LSG start well once again
6 No of times LSG have put up a fifty-plus score in the powerplay in nine innings in IPL 2025
Markram has brought up his half-century off 30 balls, and he looks good for more. This is his fourth half-century in nine innings this IPL. He's also done his bit with the ball.
Axar has backloaded Kuldeep's overs. The left-arm wristspinner hasn't bowled yet
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Axar finishes his quota
DC captain Axar has taken the new ball and bowled four on the trot against two right-handed openers. He has only conceded three fours. It should've been just two fours, but Nigam fumbled at the wide long-off boundary in the third over. Axar ends with 4-0-29-0
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LSG run away to a fast start
Former Super Giant Chameera is playing for DC tonight. He hits 141kph with his first ball but the line is wrong. On the pads and picked away for six. Chameera concedes 11 runs off the last over of the powerplay. DC are 51 for 0 in six overs
Markram gets cracking
Markram has run away to 24 off 14 balls in the the fourth over. After hooking Starc for six over the shorter leg-side boundary, he pumps Mukesh for six more. The straight boundaries are bigger at the Ekana, but not big enough for Markram. In between, there was also a chopped four off Mukesh.
In the fifth over, Axar creates a bit of a chance, but Marsh's sliced drive evades Porel at cover.
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Good start from Axar
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With two right-handers opening for LSG, Axar takes the new ball himself and almost has Marsh chopping the last ball of the over onto his own stumps. Just three runs off the opening over from Axar
Stats king Sampath: The last spinner (before Axar Patel today) to complete his quota in the first seven overs in the IPL was Shahbaz Nadeem in 2015
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Kaushik Gandhi-Hemang Badani reunion
Former TN batter Kaushik Gandhi, 35, is one of the on-field umpires today. He recently ended his playing career, umpired in the last TNPL and is now umpiring in his second IPL game. He used to work closely with Hemang Badani as captain-coach for Chepauk Super Gillies in the TNPL. They meet in the IPL as umpire-coach.
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DC opt to bowl; Mayank in LSG's Impact subs list
Delhi Capitals (DC) captain Axar Patel called correctly at the toss and opted to bowl against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Lucknow. He was wary of the dew setting in later in the evening.
LSG captain Rishabh Pant said that he would have preferred to bowl first too. He expected the pitch to start slow and become better for batting later in the evening.
While LSG were unchanged - tearaway Mayank Yadav is among their Impact subs list - DC made one change, bringing in Dushmantha Chameera for Mohit Sharma. Faf du Plessis wasn't yet fit to return to action for DC. They might call up Donnovan Ferreira or Jake Fraser-McGurk as an Impact player when they chase later in the evening.
This is Chameera's first game of the IPL season and first since February, when he played for DC's affiliate team in the UAE's ILT20 under coach Hemang Badani.
Lucknow Super Giants: 1 Aiden Markram, 2 Mitchell Marsh, 3 Nicholas Pooran, 4 Rishabh Pant (capt, wk), 5 Abdul Samad, 6 David Miller, 7 Shardul Thakur, 8 Digvesh Rathi, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Avesh Khan, 11 Prince Yadav
Impact subs: Ayush Badoni, Mayank Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh
Delhi Capitals: 1 Abishek Porel, 2 Karun Nair, 3 KL Rahul(wk), 4 Axar Patel(c), 5 Tristan Stubbs, 6 Ashutosh Sharma, 7 Vipraj Nigam, 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Dushmantha Chameera, 11 Mukesh Kumar
Impact Subs: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay
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Talking T20 feat. Boucher and Bangar
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Have your say
Who's likely to have the better game tonight?
4.4K votesKL Rahul
Rishabh Pant
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Rahul vs LSG
KL Rahul was unavailable when DC met LSG earlier in IPL 2025. He will be coming up against his former franchise for the first time since they split. IPL owners have often summoned players and captains out of bed during wee hours to explain the decisions they make, but this usually happens behind closed doors. Live visuals of the LSG owner giving Rahul a dressing down after SRH mowed down 166 in under ten overs went viral last season. Will Rahul be extra motivated to win it for his new team against his former team today?
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