IPL: Delhi thrash Hyderabad by 7 wickets

Visakhapatnam, (HS) : Vice-captain Faf du Plessis top-scored with a delightful 27-ball fifty as an all-round Delhi Capitals trounced Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets to remain unbeaten in IPL 2025 at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Zeeshan Ansari caused DC a scare with three quick wickets but Tristan Stubbs and Abhishek Porel closed the door on SRH. DC ended up winning the match by seven wickets with as many as four overs to spare. KL Rahul blasted 15 runs in his first four balls as a DC batter before becoming the third man to fall to debutant Zeeshan Ansari. The spinner’s triple strike has given SRH a shadow of an opportunity after Faf du Plessis’s early charge put DC on top in their chase of 164. Sunrisers Hyderabad were all out for just 163 runs with Delhi Capitals pacer Mitchell Starc registering a five-wicket haul. Starc did the early damage by taking three wickets in the powerplay after which Kuldeep Yadav took three more to keep the pressure up on SRH. Starc then took two more wickets in his last over, which also turned out to be the last of the SRH innings. SRH were buoyed by a scintillating knock from Aniket Verma, who scored 74 runs in 41 balls. Aniket and Heinrich Klaasen put up a partnership of 77 runs in just 42 balls to help SRH recover from losing four early wickets. Aniket finished with a score of 74 in 41 balls, becoming the third man to fall to Kuldeep Yadav on the day. Starc rattled off three wickets in his first two overs, which meant that SRH lost their first three wickets inside the first three overs itself. Brief Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 163 in 18.4 overs (Aniket Verma 74, Heinrich Klaasen 32; Mitchell Starc 5-35, Kuldeep Yadav 3-22) lost to Delhi Capitals 166/3 in 16 overs (Faf du Plessis 50, Jake Fraser-McGurk 38; Zeeshan Ansari 3-42) by seven wickets.

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