Riding on debutant Jake Fraser-McGurk’s fifty and Kuldeep Yadav’s brilliant 3-wicket haul, Delhi Capitals returned to winning ways with a 6-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants in match 26 of IPL 2024.
Chasing 168, DC lost the wicket of David Warner (8) cheaply before Prithvi Shaw and Fraser-McGurk added 39 runs for the second wicket. Ravi Bishnoi broke the stand by dismissing Shaw for 32. It was followed by a 77-run stand between Fraser-McGurk and Rishabh Pant.
Fraser-McGurk scored 55 runs with the help of two fours and five sixes before being dismissed by Naveen-ul-Haq. Six runs later, Pant returned to the dressing room for 41 before Tristan Stubbs and Shai Hope shared an unbeaten 24-run stand to take DC home.
Early in the game, an unbeaten half-century from Ayush Badoni rescued LSG and helped them recover from a poor start to post a competitive total of 167/7.
KL Rahul’s decision to bat first was not justified by his teammates from the beginning. Quinton de Kock and Devdutt Padikkal in the powerplay after scoring 19 and 3 respectively. Both batsmen were dismissed by Khaleel Ahmed. In the eighth over, Kuldeep Yadav returned Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran in consecutive deliveries to leave LSG reeling at 66 for 4.
11 runs later, the left-arm spinner struck again to dismiss Rahul for 39. The likes of Deepak Hooda (10) and Krunal Pandya (3) too could not last long as LSG found themselves seven down for just 94 runs after 13 overs.
However, Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan shared an unbeaten stand of 73 runs to get their team out of trouble and guide them to a fighting total. Badoni scored 55 runs off 35 balls, while Arshad remained unbeaten on 20. For DC, Kuldeep got three wickets while Khaleel claimed two.
IPL 2024 points table after LSG vs DC match:
| equipment | Mat | Cattle | Lost | Tied | NR | points | NRR |
| Rajasthan Royals | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.871 |
| Riders of the Knights of Calcutta | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1,528 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.666 |
| Lucknow Supergiants | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.436 |
| Sunrise Hyderabad | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.344 |
| Gujarat Titans | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.637 |
| Bombay Indians | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.073 |
| Kings of Punjab | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.196 |
| Capitals of Delhi | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.975 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1,124 |
IPL Orange Cap list after LSG vs DC game:
| Player | Matches | Inns | Careers | average | Mr. | 4s | 6s |
| Virat Kohli | 6 | 6 | 319 | 79.75 | 141.78 | 29 | 12 |
| Riyan Parag | 5 | 5 | 261 | 87 | 158.18 | 17 | 17 |
| Shubman Gill | 6 | 6 | 255 | 51 | 151.79 | 19 | 9 |
| Sanju Samson | 5 | 5 | 246 | 82 | 157.69 | 24 | 10 |
| Sai Sudharsan | 6 | 6 | 226 | 37.67 | 127.68 | 23 | 3 |
IPL Purple Cap list after LSG vs DC game:
| Player | Matches | Weeks | average | 4-fers | 5-fers |
| jasprit bumrah | 5 | 10 | 11.9 | – | 1 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 5 | 10 | 13.2 | – | – |
| Mustafizur Rahman | 4 | 9 | 14.22 | 1 | – |
| Khaleel Ahmed | 6 | 9 | 23.44 | – | – |
| Arshdeep Singh | 5 | 8 | twenty | – | – |