MI became the first team to defeat Delhi, won the match by making a strange hat-trick of run-outs; won the match by 12 runs
Mumbai Indians have defeated Delhi Capitals by 12 runs. In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Mumbai Indians scored 205 runs while batting first. In response, Delhi's entire team could score only 193 runs. This is Delhi's first defeat in IPL 2025, before this it had registered 4 consecutive wins.
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On the other hand, if Mumbai had lost this match, its path to the playoffs would have become difficult. In the 19th over, the fielders of Mumbai Indians (MI) won the match by taking a hat-trick of run-outs in a strange manner.
While chasing the target of 206 runs, Deepak Chahar gave MI a great start. He dismissed Jake Fraser McGurk on the very first ball of the innings. After that Abhishek Porel and Karun Nair broke the back of Mumbai's bowling.
Both of them together scored 119 runs in 61 balls. Porel got out after scoring 33 runs, but Karun Nair came to bat in a different mood. When Nair got out after playing a stormy innings of 89 runs, Delhi had to score 71 runs in 50 balls to win, this seemed like a very easy target.
The whole match turned around in the last 8 overs
In 12 overs, Delhi Capitals had scored 140 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. The team had to score 66 runs in 48 balls to win. From here, Suryakumar Yadav, Tristan Stubbs and KL Rahul and other batsmen lost wickets at regular intervals. In the next four overs, Delhi's team was able to score only 24 runs and lost three important wickets. Due to this, the score was 164 runs at the loss of 6 wickets after 16 overs.
At a time when Delhi Capitals was heading towards an easy victory, the situation was such that it had to score 23 runs in 2 overs. Since Jasprit Bumrah had one over left, these 23 runs also seemed like a mountain target.19th i.e.Jasprit Bumrah8 runs were scored on the first 2 balls of the over, but who knew that the remaining 3 batsmen of Delhi would get run out on the next 3 balls of the over.