IPL 2025 witnessed its first Tremendous Over in the course of the Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals match on the Arun Jaitely Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday. DC batted first to attain 188/5, later RR additionally managed to achieve 188/4 in 20 overs. After RR wobbled a bit in center overs, Nitish Rana’s 51 off 28 balls put them again on monitor. Nevertheless, the match went into Tremendous Over after the scores had been tied. Curiously, RR despatched Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal within the Tremendous Over. They might not even full the six ball as they misplaced two wickets and scored 11. DC chased personal the Tremendous Over goal of 12 runs in 4 balls.
Nitish Rana was requested about him being not despatched for Soper Over.
“The administration takes the decision, not one particular person. The captain is there together with two different senior gamers and coaches. If Shimron Hetmyer had hit two sixes, you then would not be asking this query. I’ll give the identical reply. I haven’t got some other reply. No matter choices we took was completely proper. Hetmyer is our finisher, that everybody is aware of. He has delivered prior to now,” Rana stated within the press convention.
“One particular person by no means takes such calls. Administration and help employees is there to debate such issues. If the choice was in our favour then your query would have been totally different. Cricket is a result-oriented sport. If Sandeep Sharma had bowled effectively within the Tremendous Over, which he has finished prior to now. On this scenario, he was most probably the bowler for us. We had been one massive shot much less. We had been focusing on 15 runs within the Tremendous Over.”
In a match that had its ebbs and flows, Delhi Capitals (DC) held their nerve to emerge victorious over Rajasthan Royals (RR) in an exhilarating Tremendous Over and climb atop the factors desk on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday.
On a sluggish pitch, late cameos from captain Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs, and Ashutosh Sharma rescued DC from a precarious place and enabled them to publish a formidable 188/5. In reply, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Nitish Rana threatened to take RR to victory by smashing 51 runs every.
However Mitchell Starc’s protection of 9 runs within the last over meant the sport went right into a Tremendous Over, which occurred for the primary time within the IPL after 2022. Starc once more delivered for DC within the Tremendous Over, as RRwase stored to 12. Stubbs and KL Rahul stored themselves calm to make sure DC clinched an unbelievable win, which was additionally their first victory of the continued season in New Delhi.
Within the Tremendous Oval, DC went forward with Starc towards Shimron Hetmyer and Riyan Parag. The duo hit a boundary every off him, together with off a no-ball, earlier than committing a harakiri by being run out on successive balls and setting a goal of 12 runs to win for DC.
After taking two runs on the primary ball, Rahul sliced Sandeep Sharma for 4, earlier than taking a single. Stubbs then pulled Sandeep over deep mid-wicket for six to seal an exhilarating win for DC, who’ve now received a Tremendous Over for the fourth time of their historical past of being within the IPL.
With IANS inputs
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