Rohit Sharma snatched from Delhi’s mouth sitting in dug-out, 89 runs of Karun Nair useless, DC’s first defeat

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|14-04-2025

Dc vs mi: In the 29th match of the Indian Premier League 2025, Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by 12 runs in a thrilling match. After losing the toss, Mumbai came out to bat first and scored 205 runs in 20 overs. At the same time, Karun Nair played an explosive innings of 89 runs for Delhi to chase 206 runs, but his innings could not get his team crossed the threshold of victory. After Karun's dismissal, MI spinners tightened the match and finally gave MI the second win of this season.

Karun Nair's innings went wasteKarun Nair Batting vs Mi

Karun Nair, who is returning after 3 years in the IPL, showed his colors in the first match of IPL 2025. Karun Nair, who was coming in domestic cricket, came out to bat as an impact player against Mumbai Indians (DC Vs Mi) and in the match he showed full impact with the bat. Karun scored an 89 -run innings of 40 balls in this match, while Abhishek Porel scored 33 runs off 25 balls.

The two together added 119 runs from 61 balls for the second wicket, but apart from this, any batsman from Delhi Capitals failed to play a big innings. During Karun's batting, the match which seemed to be in favor of Delhi at one time, the match completely turned to Mumbai after Karun was dismissed. Chasing 206 runs, Delhi's innings was reduced to 193 runs in 18.5 overs by two wickets at 119 in 10.2 overs.

Rohit Sharma overturned by dug out

Mumbai Indians came out to defend 206 runs, Deepak Chahar gave a big wicket of Jake Fraser-Macagark on the first ball of the first over, but after that Karun Nair and Abhishek Porel made a brilliant partnership of 119 off 61 balls for the second wicket.

But after Karun's dismissal, Delhi's entire innings collapsed like cards. The special thing is that former Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma overturned the entire match sitting outside.

In fact, when Triston Stabs was batting, the 14th over of the innings was wanted to get Hardik Pandya Jaspreet Bumrah, but in the end, at the behest of Rohit, Hardik handed the ball to Karn Sharma and in the same over, Karna took a big wicket of Triston Stabs. In this match, Karn Sharma bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets for 36 runs in 4 overs and overturned the entire match.

Apart from Karna, Santner earned two successes, while Deepak Chahar and Bumrah took 1-1 wickets.

Mumbai's innings is like this

In the 28th match of IPL 2025, Delhi Capitals (DC Vs Mi) captain Akshar Patel won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai Indians came out to bat first by former captain Rohit Sharma and wicketkeeper batsman Ryan Riclton, a proper start of 47 runs off 30 balls. But Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion this time for just 18 runs.

After this, Ryan Riclton, along with Suryakumar Yadav, took over the innings and added 28 runs off 16 balls for the second wicket, but on a personal score of 41, Kuldeep Yadav finished Riklton's innings by clean bold.

After both openers returned, Surya started weaving the innings with Tilak Verma. During this, both of them added 60 runs off 33 balls for the third wicket, but Surya also went on scoring 40 runs and captain Hardik Pandya also returned cheaply after scoring 2 runs.

After this, Tilak Verma, along with Naman Dhir for the 5th wicket, gave a final twist to the innings of Mumbai (DC Vs Mi) and the two made a valuable contribution in bringing the team to the team by scoring 62 runs off 33 balls. While Tilak scored 59 runs off 33 balls, Naman Dhir scored 38 unbeaten 38 off 17 balls. In this way, Mumbai scored a score of 205 in 20 overs.

Class of Delhi bowlers

The decision to bowl first did not go in favor of Delhi (DC Vs Mi) at all. It was expected that Delhi bowlers would take advantage of the fresh wicket and cover the innings of Mumbai Indians quickly, but MI batsmen put up a class of Delhi bowlers and put 205 runs on the board in 20 overs. On behalf of DC (DC Vs Mi), Kuldeep Yadav took two big wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs, while the Vipraj Nigam took two wickets spending 41 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Mukesh Kumar got 1 wicket, but for this he robbed 38 runs in 4 overs.

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