'Hyderabad ki ek aur shaandaar haar' - Fans react to a close encounter victory for Delhi Capitals over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL

Delhi Capitals (Source: Twitter)

Sunrisers Hyderabad took on the Delhi Capitals in the only game for Monday in the Indian Premier League 2023. It was the homecoming for former Hyderabad player David Warner. The visitors Delhi Capitals won the toss and chose to bat first on a tricky wicket. Bhuvneshwar Kumar dealt an early blow as he dismissed Phil Salt on his third delivery of the match.

Mitchell Marsh then smacked Marco Jansen for four fours in the next over before Natarajan took him out with a brilliant ball. Sarfaraz Khan then joined the skipper to take the Delhi innings forward, but Washington Sundar removed the skipper as he tried to play with a bit more intent, and then Sundar took out Sarfaraz Khan. Sundar scalped his third wicket of the over as he dismissed Aman Khan within just two deliveries to leave Delhi in a whole heap of trouble.

Axar Patel, Delhi's in-form batter, formed an invaluable partnership with Manish Pandey to take Delhi to a decent score on this wicket. They dealt with the pressure and were able to score boundaries in the death overs. They both lost their wickets at a crucial stage and in consecutive overs which left their total to be an average one. Delhi Capitals finished at 144/9 in their 20 overs which is a fighting total at this venue.

How did the chase pan out?

Hyderabad started off decently as they were scoring as per the required run rate but lost the wicket of Harry Brook in the powerplay when he tried to accelerate. The middle overs saw the visitors come back into the game as their bowlers were pretty tight with their line and length and were getting wickets.

Due to their amazing spin dominance, Axar and Kuldeep got the Hyderabad side reduced to 85/5 after 14 overs and the hosts needed a heap of runs at the death to take their side home. Henrich Klaasen and Washington Sundar took the chase ahead and dealt with the final overs of spin and tried attacking the pace bowlers in the last 4 overs of the game. 

Klaasen showed his class and power as he was taking the Sunrisers Hyderabad close to the total as they needed 23 off 12 balls. Nortje, however, took out the dangerous man as he tried to go for the big shot. Hyderabad needed 13 runs off the last over but Mukesh Kumar kept his cool and took his side to a rare away victory.

Fans react to a great game between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals: -

Delhi Capitals have defeated SRH!

David Warner wins as a captain in Hyderabad.

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 24, 2023

I speak for everyone when I say SRH is irrelevant without Warner, Rashid and Kane trio but people criticise me for this.

— Factos (@I_say_factos) April 24, 2023

How this match looked like pic.twitter.com/8Z78vV8n4v

— SANKET (@oye_protein) April 24, 2023

If choking is an Art SRH 🤡 pic.twitter.com/Qpatyb4wqL

— An$hu (@haramii_balak12) April 24, 2023

First tribute to SRH from the man himself. pic.twitter.com/N0JJWaeyCi

— Mirza (@Mirza_Sarcastic) April 24, 2023

Dedicated to Kavya Maaran & SRH owners 🤩

— RUBEN 😎😎😎 (@rubenlal65) April 24, 2023

Why didn’t they try and run 2 on penultimate ball? No intent for it. Would’ve been 7 off 1 and then at least gives chance for super over.

— Jay Singh (@micksingh321) April 24, 2023

Warra clown team SRH. Bottled such an easy run chase.

Rahul Tripathi biggest fraud of ICT. I don't even know why some KKR loser fans even hype him 🤡

— Adiyaaaa ✨✨ (@AdiyaSharma6) April 24, 2023

Only srh can lose this match

— Rahul 🇮🇳 (@103Rahul691) April 24, 2023

Captaincy getting the better of Markram. He was so good as a batter last year

— Shivali (@_soulsearch111) April 24, 2023

Srh owners be like pic.twitter.com/TvDzuANlCN

— Prasunjha (@Prasunj90898109) April 24, 2023