IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians qualify for the Playoffs as they secure a dominant win over Delhi Capitals
Indian Premier League 2025 has now reached its final stage. Like every season, this time around also a total of Seventy-Four matches are being played in TATA IPL 2025. The Sixty-Third match of this season was played today i.e. on 21st May between Mumbai Indians (MI) vs Delhi Capitals (DC).
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This match between the two teams was played at the iconic Wankhede Stadium of the city of Mumbai. In this exciting match, the team of Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by 59 runs. With this, the team of Mumbai Indians has achieved its eighth victory this season. This season, the command of Mumbai Indians is on the shoulders of Hardik Pandya. Whereas, Delhi is led by Axar Patel.
In this exciting match, Delhi Capitals captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to bowl first. After losing the toss, Mumbai Indians came out to bat first and their start was disappointing and the team suffered the first big blow at a score of just 23 runs. After this, Ryan Rickelton and Will Jacks together handled the innings and took the team's score close to 50 runs.
Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 180 runs in the stipulated 20 overs by losing five wickets. Explosive batsman Suryakumar Yadav played the most brilliant innings of 73 runs from Mumbai Indians. During this excellent innings, Suryakumar Yadav hit seven fours and four sixes in 43 balls. Apart from Suryakumar Yadav, Ryan Rickelton scored 25 runs.
On the other hand, star fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman gave the first big success to the Delhi Capitals team. Mukesh Kumar took the maximum of two wickets from Delhi Capitals. Apart from Mukesh Kumar, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav and Dushmantha Chameera took wickets. Delhi Capitals team had to score 181 runs in 20 overs to win this match.
Let us tell you that the Delhi Capitals team, which came out to chase the target, had a disappointing start and three batsmen of the team returned to the pavilion at a score of just 27 runs. The entire team of Delhi Capitals was reduced to just 121 runs in 18.2 overs. Sameer Rizvi played the best innings of 39 runs for Delhi Capitals. During this explosive innings, Sameer Rizvi hit six fours and a six in 35 balls. Apart from Sameer Rizvi, Vipraraj Nigam scored 20 runs.
At the same time, Deepak Chahar gave the first big success to the Mumbai Indians team. Jaspreet Bumrah and Mitchell Santner took the maximum of three wickets each from the Mumbai Indians side. Apart from Jaspreet Bumrah and Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Will Jacks and Karn Sharma took one wicket each.
1st innings scorecard:
Mumbai Indians batting: 180/5, 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 25 runs, Rohit Sharma 5 runs, Will Jacks 21 runs, Suryakumar Yadav 73 runs not out, Tilak Verma 27 runs, Hardik Pandya 3 runs and Naman Dheer 24 runs not out.)
Delhi Capitals bowling: (Mukesh Kumar 2 wickets, Mustafizur Rahman 1 wicket, Kuldeep Yadav 1 wicket and Dushmantha Chameera 1 wicket).
2nd innings scorecard:
Delhi Capitals batting: 121/10, 18.2 overs (Faf du Plessis 6 runs, KL Rahul 11 runs, Abhishek Porel 6 runs, Sameer Rizvi 39 runs, Vipraj Nigam 20 runs, Tristan Stubbs 2 runs, Ashutosh Sharma 18 runs, Madhav Tiwari 3 runs, Dushmantha Chameera 8 runs not out, Kuldeep Yadav 7 runs and Mustafizur Rahman 0 runs.)
Mumbai Indians bowling: (Deepak Chahar 1 wicket, Trent Boult 1 wicket, Will Jacks 1 wicket, Mitchell Santner 3 wickets, Jasprit Bumrah 3 wickets and Karn Sharma 1 wicket).