In the 40th match of IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets in his house. Losing the toss in this match played at Ekana Stadium and batting first, Lucknow scored 159 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. In response to this, Delhi achieved target at the loss of 2 wickets in 17.5 overs. Abhishek Porel and KL Rahul put fifty for Delhi. While Mukesh Kumar took 4 wickets.
Apart from Abhishek Porel and KL Rahul, captain Akshar Patel also did a good job with the bat. He scored an unbeaten innings of 34 off 20 balls, batting at a wonder of 170. He also hit four sixes and a four in the innings.
KL Rahul took revenge from Lucknow
Let me tell you that till last season, KL Rahul used to play for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL. But before the 2025 Maga auction, Rahul was released by Lucknow. Lucknow owner Sanjeev Goenka reprimanded KL Rahul on the beach ground after a defeat from SRH during the last season. Then Lucknow released Rahul. Delhi bought Rahul in the mega auction. Now Rahul took revenge against LSG from Lucknow to Ekana Stadium itself. He hit three fours and three sixes in a 42 -ball innings. His strike rate was 135.71 during the innings.
Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first. Lucknow started well and hit 87 runs in the first 10 overs. Aidan Markram and Mitchell Marsh shared Behatiraran but after that the team lost four wickets within 23 runs. At one time it seemed that Lucknow would score a big score, but then the team’s four wickets fell on the score of 110, from which the pace of Lucknow slowed down.
Markram hit two fours and three sixes in 52 runs off 33 balls. Marsh hit three fours and a six in 45 runs off 36 balls. Dangerous batsman Nicholas Puran was bowled by Mitchell Starc for 9 runs. Mukesh Kumar caught Abdul Samad on his own ball. Samad scored 2 runs. Mukesh had also taken Marsh’s wicket earlier. For Delhi, Mukesh took 4 wickets for 33 runs in four overs.
