The batter de Plessis and all-rounder Axar Patel are aiming to rebuild the innings after quick wickets during the IPL 2025 game against Kolkata Knight Riders.

They are working to forge a partnership during the 204-run chase after the side lost the wickets of Abhishek Porel, Karun Nair and KL Rahul.

In the pursuit of chasing the target, Abhishek Porel and Faf du Plessis opened the innings while Ankul Roy opened the bowling attack.

Porel lost his wicket to Ankul after scoring only four runs. Karun Nair, who came to bat, scored 15 runs before losing his wicket to Vaibhav Arora on an lbw.

By the end of power play Delhi Capitals scored 58 runs for two wickets. However, KL Rahul lost his wicket for seven on a run out to a direct hit Sunil Narine.

Delhi was struggling with quick dismissals for 60 runs. However, they did made a come back after Axar Patel and du Plessis made a solid partnership.

Meanwhile Faf du Plessis went on to smash fifty helping the side march towards the target.

Earlier, KKR batted first and scored 204 runs for 9 in their 20 over innings.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narine opened the innings while Mitchell Starc opened the bowling attack.

However, Starc dismissed Gurbaz in the third over of the game, making Rahane walk off the ground. The KKR skipper joined Sunil Narine to score a decent score of 79 runs in power play.

However, they went on to lose wickets in quick succession as Narine sent out for 27 runs by Vipraj Nigam. In the very next over, Axar Patel dismissed KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane for 26 on a lbw.

After Venkatesh Iyer‘s dismissal for 7 runs by Axar Patel, Kolkata lost four wickets for 113 runs.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi had 44 runs before being dismissed by Chameera while Rinku Singh lost his wicket for 36 run to Vipraj Nigam.

In the last over, Starc bagged the wickets of Powell (5), Ankul Roy (0) and Russell (17) helping the side to restrict for 204 runs.

With Starc having three wickets, Vipraj Nigam and Axar Patel went on to bag two wickets each and Chameera have one dismissal.