JOIN USIPL 2020 Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals highlights: DC win by 13 runs
With tonight's win, Delhi Capitals have moved on the top of points table with 12 points. Sorry to say this but Rajasthan Royal's season is almost over. Only a miracle can help them qualify for the playoffs. But who knows? Tomorrow Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Kings XI Punjab. KXIP's only win of the season so far came against RCB. But since then the two teams have gone in opposite direction. While RCB have gone from strength to strength but KXIP have become poorer as the season has progressed. We have to wait and watch what happend in tomorrow's match.
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Anrich Nortje: Been feeling it the last few days. Nice to see some results. Buttler played them really well. Maybe I was a touch too full. Didn't expect him to go for a six first ball. Maybe he was expecting something else off that delivery. Stuck to my strength and paid off. Didn't expect the second ramp. Luckily I stuck to it. We've got a good coach in Ryan. Lovely working with KG. Tushar has been working in the nets. Enjoying my experience with them. Doesn't look like it but it's nerve-wracking. Better to be on the field than on the other side.
Player of the Match
DC's fast bowler Anrich Nortje is the Player of the Match. He bowled at fiery pace and picked 2 wickets to help DC win the match.
Because Shreyas Iyer got injured during RR's inning, Shikhar Dhawan the stand in skipper attends the Post Match Presentation on Iyer's behalf.
Shikha Dhawan DC's stand in captain: He (Shreyas Iyer) is in pain but his shoulder is moving. We'll get proper report tomorrow. One moment it was quite even and to pick it back from there was a team effort. Was important we stayed positive as a team. Knew their batting isn't deep. Knew if we got their top-order we can get them. Everytime we want them to deliver they're delivering. Courage he showed, line and length he bowled was amazing (Deshpande). Have to keep the momentum. Long tournament. Will keep the process going.
Steven Smith: Disappointing. The wicket slowed up a bit as the game went on. We got off to a good start with Jos and Stokesy, then we lost a couple wickets and got another partnership between Stokesy and Sanju, then again lost wickets in clumps and on slow wickets it is hard to make up too many runs at the backend. We needed to take it a bit deeper from some of our batters and we were not able to do that. We thought we bowled well at the backend and restricted them to 160-odd, that was probably around par on this wicket. And the opening partnership got us ahead in the game but we couldn't extend those partnerships, boys were getting in and getting out, not going on to make 50 or 60. It has been the trend in the tournament, the boys that have the air speed have had the most success, Jofra has been great for us and same with Nortje and Rabada for Delhi. They changed things around tonight by bowling with pace, taking pace off and varying it nicely, we weren't able to deal with that. We are not in the greatest position at the moment, so need to move on from this and hopefully come back with a big game in three days time.