Super Giants vs Capitals: Delhi Capitals won their first match -IPL 2025
In IPL 2025 in a perfect manner with this thrilling win over Lucknow Super Giants.Thanks to Ashutosh Sharma’s stormy innings, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by one wicket in a thrilling match of IPL. While chasing the target of 210 runs, the Capitals had a very bad start and by the second over the score became 3 wickets for 7 runs. After this, by 13 overs, the team had lost six wickets for 116 runs. But Ashutosh played a brilliant innings of 66 runs in 31 balls and gave his team victory. His innings included 5 sixes and 5 fours.
IPL 2025: Excellent partnership of Ashutosh Sharma and Vipraaj Nigam in the 4th Match.
Wickets kept falling during Delhi’s innings. A partnership of 55 runs in 22 balls between Ashutosh Sharma and debutant Vipraaj Nigam (39 runs, 15 balls, 5 fours, 2 sixes) for the seventh wicket of the team made the match exciting. However, Vipraaj Nigam was out soon after the second strategic break.
For LSG, Digvesh Rathi (2/30) and Ravi Bishnoi (2/53) took important wickets to dash the hopes of Delhi Capitals. But Ashutosh Sharma hit two sixes and a four off Bishnoi in the 18th over and then scored 10 runs off the last two balls of Prince Yadav to give Delhi Capitals a historic win in their first match.
Stormy innings of Lucknow Super Giants’s star batsmen Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh.
Lucknow Super Giants had scored 209/8 on the back of explosive innings of Nicholas Pooran (75 runs, 30 balls, 7 sixes, 6 fours) and Mitchell Marsh (72 runs). LSG’s score was 133/1 in the 12th over, but the brilliant bowling of Kuldeep Yadav (4 overs, 20 runs, 2 wickets) and Mitchell Starc (3/42) allowed them to add only 76 runs in the last eight overs and took six wickets.
Marsh scored fast for LSG and completed his half-century in just 21 balls. Nicholas Pooran also showed his aggressive attitude, especially against the spinners of Delhi Capitals, and shared an 87-run partnership with Marsh in just 42 balls.
However, a turning point came during LSG’s innings when Sameer Rizvi dropped Pooran’s catch in the seventh over. After this, Pooran wreaked havoc on Delhi bowlers.
In the end, David Miller’s brilliant batting (27 runs, 19 balls) struggled, but there was no significant support from the other end and LSG could only reach 209 runs.
