Mitchell Starc of Delhi Capitals bowled his best deliveries of the day in the 20th over of Rajasthan innings and the Super Over as he first prevented Rajasthan Royals from scoring two runs off the final ball in defending eight runs and then restricted their opponents to 11/2 in the Super Over.
Just backed my execution. Run in with a clear plan and try to execute it. Sometimes it doesn't come off, today it did. I've played long enough that everyone knows what I'm going to do. You can play that over ten more times and do ten different things and it can go different ways.
About the Super Over in which he started with a yorker and also managed to put in a perfect low full-toss despite bowling a no-ball, restricted RR to 11/2 as Riyan Parag and Yashasvi Jaiswal were both run out.
Chasing 11/2, K.L rahul and Tristan Stubbs struck a four and a six respectively off Sahdeep Sharma to seal victory for Delhi Capitals. The two points they picked today, took Delhi Capitals to the top of the points table with 10 points from five wins and one defeat in six matches.
In a match in which fortune changed hands at regular intervals, Delhi Capitals (DC) held their nerve to emerge victorious over Rajasthan Royals (RR) in a thrilling Super Over.
Asked to bat first, Delhi Capitals recovered from the early loss of Jake Fraser-McGurk (9) and Karun Nair (0) to ride on a 37-ball 49 by Abhishek Porel, 32-ball 38 by KL Rahul and hard-hitting cameos by Axar Patel (34 off 14) and an 18-ball 34 not out by Tristian Stubbs to score a modest 188/5 in 20 overs. Jofra Archer claimed 2-32 while Maheesh Theekshana (1-40) and Wanindu Hasaranga (1-38) too were successful.
Chasing a target of 189 for victory, Rajasthan Royals were off to a good start as they raised 61 runs before skipper Sanju Samson (31) retired out.
Riyan Parag was bowled by Axar Patel for eight. Yashasvi Jasiwal (51) and Nitish Rana (51 off 28 balls) as they kept Rajasthan Royals on course for victory. However, Kuldeep Yadav accounted for Jaiswal while Starc trapped Nitish Rana lbw and RR lost their way as Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel failed to see them through and the match ended in a tie.
I thought that score was definitely chaseable but as we all saw it was a fantastic over from Starcy. I'd like to give it to Starcy, I think he won the game for them in the 20th over.
About the Super Over, Samson said, "The plan was to swing hard. You know he's going to come hard at you so we had to go harder at him. [On Sandeep] I think he has been bowling the toughest overs for me for the last few years. I am very fortunate to have someone like him with me. The way Jofra backed him and everyone played around him... but in the end, Starcy took it away from us."
Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals 188/5 in 20 overs (Abishek Porel 49, KL Rahul 38, Axar Patel 34; Jofra Archer 2-32, Wanindu Hasaranga 1-38) tied with Rajasthan Royals 188/4 in 20 overs (Nitish Rana 51, Yashasvi Jaiswal 51; Axar Patel 1-23, Kuldeep Yadav 1-33)P RR 12/2 in five balls lost to DC 13/0 in four balls.
