Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad players
Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad players great each other after the match. Image Credit: Sportzpics
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Delhi Capitals have the last laugh in season's first Super Over

Kolkata: The Super Sunday of IPL 2021 lived up to it's billing with the first Super Over of the season with Delhi Capitals edging out Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai in the evening match.

Set to score a challenging target of 160 for win on a slow deck, Sunrisers rode a magnificent unbeaten 66 (51 balls) by Kane Williamson and some last-minute heroics of Jagadeesha Suchith (14 off six balls) to take the match deep as the scores were level at 159 after the last ball.

However, the Delhi duo of skipper Rishabh Pant and Shikhar Dhawan then knocked off the required target of eight runs in Rashid Khan's Super Over to have the last laugh.

Relive the match as it happened ....



Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant of Delhi Capitals hits a boundary during the Super Over. Image Credit: Sportzpics




Avesh Khan
Avesh Khan (right) of Delhi Capitals celebrates the wicket of Vijay Shankar of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Image Credit: Sportzpics







Axar Patel
Axar Patel of Delhi Capitals celebrates the wicket of Rashid Khan of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Abhishek Sharma
Abhishek Sharma of Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics


Kedar Jadhav
Kedar Jadhav of Sunrisers Hyderabad is stumped by Rishabh Pant of Delhi Capitals. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Kedar Jadhav
Kedar Jadhav of Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Avesh Khan
Avesh Khan of Delhi Capitals celebrates the wicket of Virat Singh of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Kane Williamson
Kane Williamson of Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant (left) of Delhi Capitals tris to stump out Kane Williamson of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Image Credit: Sportzpics


Delhi Capitals players
Delhi Capitals players celebrates the wicket of Jonny Bairstow of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Jonny Bairstow
Jonny Bairstow of Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics






David Warner
David Warner of Sunrisers Hyderabad plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Half time report: Delhi Capitals set 160-run target on a slow wicket

Kolkata: Delhi Capitals rode a sparkling half-century by Prithvi Shaw (53 off 39 balls) and a few cameo efforts by skipper Rishabh Pant and Steve Smith to reach a challenging total of 159 for four against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai.

Once again, Shaw and senior pro Shikhar Dhawan (28) had given a flying start to reach 81 but once the two openers fell in quick succession, Delhi lost a shade in terms of momentum. Pant (37) and Steve Smith (34 not out) tried their best to take the side over 150 on a difficult batting surface.

It won't be an easy job for Sunrisers against a quality Delhi spin attack, but the trio of Warner-Bairstow-Williamson surely know how to go about their job.

Sunrisers Hyderabad players
Sunrisers Hyderabad players celebrate the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer of Delhi Capitals. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Steve Smith
Steve Smith of Delhi Capitals plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Siddarth Kaul
Siddarth Kaul (right) of Sunrisers Hyderabad celebrates the wicket of Rishabh Pant of Delhi Capitals. Image Credit: Sportzpics

Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant, captain of Delhi Capitals, plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics







Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan of Delhi Capitals plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics




Prithvi Shaw
Prithvi Shaw of Delhi Capitals plays a shot. Image Credit: Sportzpics






Rishabh Pant and David Warner
Captain of Delhi Capitals Rishabh Pant (left) and David Warner, captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad, during the toss held at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Image Credit: Sportzpics




Spinners hold key as Delhi face Hyderabad

Kolkata: It could be a battle of the spinners when Sunrisers Hyderabad, now seventh in the rankings, clash with Delhi Capitals on the show deck of M.A.Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in the evening game of the day.

Rishabh Pant’s Delhi, on a high after beating Mumbai Indians, has a problem of plenty about their selection of slow bowlers in Ravi Ashwin, veteran leg spinner Amit Mishra and the left-arm spinning allrounder Axar Patel. The latter has joined the squad after completing his completing his isolation period after a bout of Covid-19.

Sunrisers will once again look at their go-to man Rashid Khan while the choice of the second spinner could be tricky. Despite having quality off spinners in overseas recruits like Mohammed Nabi or Mujeeb-ur Rehman, their quartet of foreigners now select themselves in captain David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson and Rashid.

Brace yourself for a possible low-scoring thriller…

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