The greatest threat of Delhi Capitals against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) was Nicholas Pooran, who has been sensational in IPL 2025. The last time these two teams met at the beginning of the season, Pooran obtained 75 races in 30 deliveries, including six limits and seven maximums, at a 250 attack speed.

However, DC prepared this time for this challenge, adopting unusual tactics in Lucknow. They immediately acted to stop high flight openers while they also worked in reservations for Pooran, who beats number 3.

Axar Patel Bowling Four Overs in a trot with the new ball

One of the surprising decisions came just at the beginning of the game when Axar Patel took the new ball and opened bowling inputs. That was done for multiple reasons, the greatest is the vulnerability of both openers against the spinning spins, especially the left arm orthodox.

Before this game, Axar had fired Markram twice in 16 deliveries, and Marsh had a little attack rate of 128.57 against him, even though he never lost his wickt. In addition, both batters have fought against this type of bowling, especially while trying to attack; Both have a strike rate of less than 120 this year.

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Another thing is that Nicholas Pooran is very strong against Slas, hitting in the a whopping 325 without being fired this year. In addition, he has never been against Axar and has an attack rate of 350.

Therefore, the plan was to attack weak links from the beginning before they were established. This also assured that Axar was done before Pooran reached the fold.

Introduction of Kuldeep Yadav and Mitchell Starc against Nicholas Pooran

When Dushmantha Chamera finally provided the progress by saying goodbye to Aiden Markram in the tenth, DC rapidly brought Kuldeep Yadav, who was retained, to the attack. Before this accessory, Kuldeep had fired the Caribbean batter five times in 70 balls.

However, Pooran was ready for the challenge and scanning shocked to access the leg on the side of the leg with a minimum risk and managed to reach two consecutive limits. But this was not the only plan against Pooran; DC had another great weapon waiting to attack him.

From the other extreme, Mitchell Starc entered the attack, and this was another interesting use of his overs by the captain. DC gave him only one in the power game and another when Markram and Marsh were going well, so the general thought would have been the remaining two for work.

But Starc was reintroduced when Pooren arrived because the Australian pacemaker had fired him four times in 13 deliveries. In the end it turned out that the left arm sprinter attracted him to the first installment he threw to Pooran, which made him five layoffs into 14 balls.

Starc has fired it in five consecutive entries, and the movement of giving him a new against the dividends paid. Again he was removed from the attack and returned in 19 to complete his spell, but that made the biggest difference in the game.

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