IPL 2024: Bowlers hand DC thumping win over Gujarat Titans; climb to 6th place on points table

Delhi Capitals (DC) won their second match on the trot and third overall in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after thrashing Gujarat Titans (GT) by sixwickets on April 17. With the win, DC, who were ninth on the points table before the match, now stand at sixth place. Chasing a target of 90, DC made small task of it and reached the winning mark in just ninthover.

DC opener Jake Fraser-McGurk was fiery in the start of the chase, scoring 20 off 10 before getting out on the last ball of the second over. Prithvi Shaw was the next to fall for a six-ball seven but it had no affect on scoring. Abhishek Porel (15 off 7) and Shai Hope (19 off 10) then added 34 runs in 14 balls as DC effectively closed the game.

Sandeep Warrier did take two wickets while Rashid Khan and Spencer Johnson took one each but the target was too low to have any impact of the wicket on the game. Pant (16 off 11) and Sumit Kumar (9 off 9) were at the crease as DC registered a thumping win.

Earlier, GT had won the toss and elected to bowl first at home in Ahmedabad. DC, however, had other plans and brought GT on its knees by taking four wickets inside the powerplay. The wickets also involved a sensational run-out and an athletic catch by skipper Rishabh Pant as well.

It started with the wicket of GT skipper Shubman Gill who was sent back by DC's Ishant Sharma in the second over of the innings. Wriddhiman Saha was next to go after he chopped on a ball by Mukesh Kumar onto the stumps. Sai Sudharsan was then caught short by Sumit Kumar while trying to steal a single. Ishant then returned to take the wicket of David Miller who was caught behind brilliantly by Pant. By the time powerplay ended, GT were 30/4 - their one of the lowest powerplay totals.

Pant then brought on part-time Tristan Stubbs to bowl the ninth over and he obliged with two wickets, thanks to stumpings by the DC skipper. Rashid Khan's 24-ball 31 then took GT to 88 in the 18th over but his dismissal brought the end of the innings two balls later on 89.

For DC, Mukesh Kumar took 3/14 while Ishant chipped with 2/8 and Stubbs with 2/11.