IPL 2023: Delhi Capitals second consecutive defeat, Gujarat Titans beat by 6 wickets in interesting match

The excitement of IPL continues to grow. In IPL 2023 today, an interesting match was played between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. In this match, Gujarat Titans defeated Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets while maintaining their winning streak. While Gujarat Titans, led by Hardik Pandya, won their second consecutive win, Delhi suffered defeat for the second consecutive match. Batting first after losing the toss, David Warner’s team could score 162 runs for 8 wickets. Gujarat Titans needed 163 runs to win. Gujarat did not have a good start and 3 wickets had fallen on their score of 54 runs. Sai Sundaram of Gujarat remained on one side. At the same time, thanks to the batting of Vijay Shankar and David Miller, Gujarat managed to win this match.

Batting first against Gujarat Titans, Delhi Capitals scored 162 runs for eight wickets on the basis of all-rounder Akshar Patel’s innings of 36 runs in 22 balls. Captain David Warner scored 37 off 32 balls and Sarfaraz Khan scored 30 off 34 balls for Delhi but both the batsmen struggled and failed to increase the run rate. Akshar hit two fours and three sixes in his innings. He was well supported by Abhishek Porel. The 20-year-old Porel impressed by scoring 20 runs in 11 balls with the help of two sixes. Mohammed Shami and Rashid Khan took three wickets each for Gujarat. Shami however proved costly. He scored 41 runs in four overs while Rashid spent 31 runs in the same overs. Alzarri Joseph took two wickets for 29 runs in four overs. Joseph troubled the Delhi batsmen a lot with his bouncer balls. Shami’s first ball came out touching the wicket but the bails did not fall and Warner was saved from being dismissed. 11 runs came from this over, out of which only four runs came off the bat. Shami got the benefit of excellent bowling in the third over of the innings. He took advantage of the weakness of Prithvi Shaw (seven runs) on the shot ball, who returned to the pavilion by giving a simple catch to Alzarri Joseph at mid-on.

Mitchell Marsh (four runs), running in great rhythm, hit the first ball of the fifth over for a four, but Shami made a brilliant comeback by bowling him on the next ball. Warner, still struggling, hit a confident four off the last ball of the over. He also hit a four against Hardik Pandya in the last over of the powerplay which helped the team score 52 for two in the powerplay, contributing 14 extra runs. Warner hit two fours against Joseph in the seventh over but the bowler completed the revenge by bowling him in the ninth over of the innings. Joseph surprised Riley Rosso with his pace off the next ball. The ball took the outside edge of his bat and Rahul Tewatia dived forward to take a brilliant catch at point. However, he missed out on completing the hat-trick. The last ball of the over hit Sarfaraz on the head and he continued to play after the team doctor examined him for a concussion. 20-year-old Abhishek Porel, playing his debut match, showed his intentions by hitting a six in the 11th over against Joseph. In the 12th over, Sarfaraz was given a lifeline by Josh Little off the bowling of left-arm fast bowler Yash Dayal. On the last ball of the same over, Porel completed the team’s century by hitting another six.