In IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians stopped the victory chariot of Delhi Capitals. In fact, Delhi Capitals lost the match that was in their hands. Delhi Capitals’ score was 135 runs for the loss of two wickets at one time and they were in a very strong position. In the match held at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on 13 April (Sunday), Mumbai Indians had set a target of 206 runs, but the host team collapsed for 193 runs in 19 overs.
Did Delhi lose the match that was in their hands?
In fact, Delhi Capitals lost the match that was in their hands. Delhi Capitals’ score was 135 runs for the loss of two wickets in 11.3 overs at one time and they were in a very strong position. Karun Nair, playing an IPL match after almost three years, was in full form and it seemed that he could also score a century. But Karun was bowled on the next ball of that over by Mitchell Santner. Karun Nair, who came in as an ‘impact sub’, scored 89 runs in 42 balls with the help of 12 fours and 5 sixes. After Karun’s dismissal, Delhi Capitals lost the momentum. Delhi then lost the wickets of captain Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs and KL Rahul cheaply. Even after Rahul’s dismissal, Delhi was still in the game because Ashutosh Sharma and Vipraaj Nigam were present at the crease. Vipraaj Nigam hit a six and a four in the 18th over, but in the same over, Vipraaj was stumped out on a wide ball by Mitchell Santner. When Vipraaj was out, Mumbai’s score was 180 runs for 7 wickets and now the responsibility of winning the match was completely on Ashutosh Sharma.
Hat-trick of run outs and Mumbai won
Delhi Capitals had to score 23 runs in the last 2 overs to win. No run was scored on the first ball of that over by Jasprit Bumrah. Then Ashutosh Sharma hit fours on the next two balls. Now Delhi needed 15 runs from 9 balls. But Ashutosh Sharma got run out while trying to take the second run on the fourth ball of the over. Wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton collected Will Jacks’ throw correctly and scattered the bails.
Kuldeep Yadav, who came to the crease, also got run out while trying to take the second run on the next ball. Substitute fielder Raj Bawa’s throw came at the striker’s end and Rickelton blew the bails. Then Delhi lost the match with Mohit Sharma getting run out on the last ball of the over. Mohit Sharma ran to take the run on Mitchell Starc’s call, but Mitchell Santner’s throw was so accurate that Mohit had no chance of reaching the crease.