The Sunrisers Hyderabad Paes attack, led by Pat Cummins, participated in the Indian Premier League on Monday to limit the visitors to 133/7 through the Delhi Capital Batting Line-Up. His play-off hopes hanging from a thread, SRH placed DC to bat on a test surface. Shot selection of distant team batsmen also contributed to their downfall. DC was left at 29 for five out of five in 7.1 overs, in which Captain Cummins caused maximum damage.
Cummins caught Karun Nair behind on the first ball of the match with a good length ball around the off-stump. It was a loose shot from the first DC batsman.
FAF du Plessis departed later to Cummins, a failed attempt to remove Australian tireless to a range. There is no loose ball from Cummins, South Africa only went for a bridge on charge to be caught by the wicket-keeper.
The third victim of Cummins was Abhishek Porl, who was caught after the blur of a flick. With this, Cummins became the first captain to take two wickets in the powerplay of an IPL match.
Captain with 2-plus wickets in 1-6 overs of an IPL innings
3/12 – Pat Cummins (SRH) vs. DC, Hyderabad, 2025
2/10 – Exer Patel (DC) vs RCB, Delhi, 2025
2/13 – Zaheer Khan (DC) vs KKR, Delhi, 2017
2/13 – Sean Pollock (MI) vs KKR, Kolkata, 2008
2/14 – Zaheer Khan (DC) vs RPS, Pune, 2017
2/18 – Zaheer Khan (DC) vs KKR, Delhi, 2016
2/19 – Zaheer Khan (DC) vs RPS, Pune, 2017
Harshal Patel and Jaydev Undkat entered the Act by rejecting Exer Patel and KL Rahul respectively. In-form Rahul went for a drive on Up, but ended Ishan Kishan behind the stump.
It was a kind of traffic to Tristian Stabs (41 Not Out out of 36) and impresses the player Ashutosh Sharma (26 to 41), which takes DC into a respectable clan. He shared 66 runs stand off 45 balls.
Sharma was able to break the hut by depositing leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari for a six-six couple on the long-on-on-on-on-on.
Stabs did not look comfortable as Sharma in the middle, but later managed to provide very necessary support. Could only have only four limitations with the last one, who came out of the last ball of the South African innings.
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