New Delhi
After the brilliant start of IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals, which had suffered the first defeat on its ground, will forget the shock and take off against the Rajasthan Royals again on the path of victory on Wednesday. After winning four consecutive matches, the Delhi team, captained by Akshar Patel, was defeated by Mumbai Indians at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday. After this defeat, Delhi slipped from the top position to second place. On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals are at eighth position by winning only two matches out of six. The team captained by Sanju Samson has not been able to perform well.
Domestic cricket veteran Karun Nair made 89 runs in 40 balls against Mumbai Indians for Delhi. At one time, Delhi’s score was 119 runs for one wicket in the 11th over, but after that lost the last nine wickets within 74 runs. His three batsmen were run out of the last three balls of the 19th over and suffered defeat by 12 runs. Delhi did not have time to misery the grief of this defeat, because within two days he has to play against the Royals tomorrow.
For Delhi, the key to success can prove to be a spinner once again. Despite the defeat in the last match, Kuldeep Yadav and 20 -year -old Vipraj Nigam performed brilliantly. However, the letters have not been able to impress so much and they have not got wickets even by putting 14 overs in six matches. Apart from this, he has given more runs per over at the rate of more than 10. He has not been able to leave the impression even in batting. Jack Fraser McGark, who performed aggressively in the previous season, is not in the rhythm and has been able to score only 46 runs.
Faf duplecy is out due to injury and Nair is replacing the team. In the middle order, KL Rahul has handled Daromadar. There are Triston Stabs, Ashutosh Sharma and Nigam to support him. On the other hand there is a lack of continuity in the problem performance of Royals. Yashasvi Jaiswal has been able to score a half -century against RCB only in the last match. Captain Samson has not been able to play a single good innings yet, while the bat of Ryan Parag and Dhruv Jurael is also silent. Jofra Archer has proved to be expensive in bowling. Except Sandeep Sharma, no bowler has been able to curb the rung.
Teams are as follows
Delhi Capitals: Akshar Patel (Captain), KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Jake Fraser-Mackgurk, Karun Nair, Faf du Plessi, Donovan Farera, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Triston Stabs (Wicketkeeper), Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Darshan Nalakande, Vipraj Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Mashel Stark, Mission Tiwari, Madhwant Kumar, Madhav Tiwari, Madhav Tiwari, Madhwant Kumar, Tripurana Vijay T Natarajan, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmanta Chamira, Kuldeep Yadav.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (Captain), Ryan Parag, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Rathore, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurlel, Nitish Rana, Yudhveer Singh, Jofra Archer, Mahesh Thikshana, Vanindu Hasranga, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Queni Mafaka, Ashok Sharma, Sandeep Sharma.
The match will begin at 7:30 pm.
