Delhi Capitals beat Punjab Kings by 17 runs in the 64th match of IPL 2022. With this win, Rishabh Pant’s team has secured the fourth position in the points table. Delhi has won back to back two matches for the first time in IPL 2022, while after this defeat, the race for the playoffs has become even more difficult for Punjab. Punjab now has one match left, if the team is able to win it, then they will be able to reach only 14 points. On the other hand, Delhi’s next match is against Mumbai Indians. If DC wins that match, then they can easily move into the play-ops as their net run rate is better than the rest of the teams. Apart from Delhi, now RCB is the only team that can reach 16 points. If RCB loses the next match against Gujarat Titans, then the fourth team will qualify for the playoffs on the basis of net run rate.
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Talking about the competition, Mayank Agarwal won the toss and elected to bowl first. The first blow to Delhi Capitals was given by Liam Livingstone on the first ball of the innings by dismissing David Warner for a golden duck. After this Sarfaraz was dismissed after scoring 32 runs in 16 balls. After Sarfaraz, Lalit Yadav supported Mitchell Marsh for some time after scoring 24 runs, but after his dismissal, the team collapsed like a pack of cards. Rishabh Pant and Powell went by throwing their wickets. Marsh played a brilliant innings of 63 runs in 28 balls. Delhi scored 159 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.
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Johnny Bairstow and Shikhar Dhawan gave a good start to Punjab Kings chasing the target of 160 runs. Punjab got the first blow in the form of Bairstow (28) on the score of 38. After the dismissal of Bairstow, Punjab’s run-rate came under control and the team lost 6 wickets within the next 44 runs. Jitesh Sharma definitely wanted to fill the game with 44 runs off 34 balls, but he did not play in front of Shardul Thakur. Shardul took 4 wickets in this match and was awarded the man of the match award. Punjab could score only 142 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 9 wickets.
