DC Vs RR, IPL 2024 Highlights: Delhi Capitals Beat Rajasthan Royals By 20 Runs In Kotla

Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights, IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals returned to winning ways with a handsome 20-run victory over Rajasthan Royals as they kept their slim IPL playoff hopes alive on Tuesday. Tristan Stubbs smashed a quickfire 41 from 20 balls to lift Delhi Capitals to 221/8 after Rajasthan Royals opted to field. In reply, Rajasthan Royals were restricted to 201 for 8 with Kuldeep Yadav being the pick of the bowler for Delhi, returning with 2/25. Khaleel Ahmed (2/47) and Mukesh Kumar (2/30) also picked up two wickets apiece. Delhi now joined Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants with 12 points each in a mid-table scramble for the playoffs. Skipper Sanju Samson led Rajasthan's chase with his fifth half-century of the season. Earlier, Jake Fraser-McGurk (50 off 20 balls) and Abhishek Porel (65; 36 balls) duo put together 60 runs in just 26 balls before India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (3/24) triggered a collapse. Get all the scores and updates from match 56, of DC vs RR, in the IPL 2024, right here

Rajasthan Royals Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma, Jos Buttler, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shubham Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Tanush Kotian, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Kuldeep Sen, Donovan Ferreira, Abid Mushtaq, Kunal Singh Rathore

Delhi Capitals Squad: Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rasikh Dar Salam, Lizaad Williams, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Praveen Dubey, Kumar Kushagra, Ricky Bhui, Ishant Sharma, David Warner, Gulbadin Naib, Jhye Richardson, Anrich Nortje, Lalit Yadav, Yash Dhull, Vicky Ostwal, Swastik Chikara

"We know that we are coming up against a very good Rajasthan side, but we know if we play our best cricket, as we have seen in the tournament so far, if we can play our best cricket for 40 overs, then I'll guarantee we'll be hard to beat. It doesn't matter who we play or where we play them, we know we can beat anybody."

Fourth game here in Delhi and the average score is 249 so far, five out of the six innings have seen scores over 200. One of the reasons is the dimensions of this ground. Today the side boundaries are 59m and 67m, 74m straight hit. Pitches early on here had more grass, now we have more bare patches and a few cracks. There is still some grass cover in the middle of the pitch. I believe it is going to be another high-scoring game, reckon Brian Lara and Deep Das Gupta.

RR captain Sanju Samson has won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Sanju Samson: We would like to bowl first, looks a good a wicket to chase on. We are comfortable doing both. The environment in the team is what pleases me, we have great characters, of course winning helps. Dhruv and Hetmyer are unavailable. Shubham Dubey and Donovan Ferreira are in.

Rishabh Pant: Pitches this season are more batting friendly. Some injuries, health issues are there in our team but we don't want focus on those things and we got to focus on the matches and do our best. Ishant and Gulbadin come in.

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Gulbadin Naib, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed

Rajasthan Royals Impact Subs: Jos Buttler, Kuldeep Sen, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tanush Kotian, Kunal Singh Rathore

Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Rasikh Dar Salam, Praveen Dubey, Lalit Yadav, Sumit Kumar, Kumar Kushagra

Matches: 28

Delhi Capitals: 13

Rajasthan Royals: 15

Trent Boult is all set to kick-start the action as he gets his field ready for the DC vs RR action.

Jake Fraser-McGurk scored a 19-ball fifty to light up the Arun Jaitley Stadium against Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday as he took the attack to the visitors. Despite the brutal attack, R Ashwin scalped the wicket of the young Aussie for 50 as RR fought back in the contest.

Despite the positive start, Delhi Capitals lost three wickets in the ten overs as they look on to build on the start given to them by Jake Fraser-McGurk. However, DC still have opener Abishek Porel at the crease and will look to put on a huge score against the high-flying RR.

Rishabh Pant was the latest wicket to fall for DC as RR fought back in the contest. R Ashwin scalped three wickets to give his side a slight advantage as Tristan Stubbs and Gulbadin Naib look to finish on a high at Kotla.

DC have posted 221 for the loss of eight wickets in their 20 overs against Rajasthan Royals. Led by fifties by JFM and Abishek Porel, DC were looking in danger of posting a low score, thanks to Ravi Ashwin's three wicket burst but a late cameo from Gulbadin Naib and Tristan Stubbs ensured the home side have a mammoth score on the board.

After the 1st over dismissal of Yashasvi Jaiswal, RR have moved on with the likes of Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson battling on. Samson has scored freely whereas 'Impact Sub' Buttler will look to cash in with the placid conditions at Kotla.

Rajasthan Royals' NRR is around 12 per over and have the likes of Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag at the crease.

With the wicket of Jos Buttler, DC bowlers capitalised on the situation as the tightened the screws on RR's Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag. With exactly 12 runs per over needed, RR need some big overs if they are to get closer to 222.

Rajasthan Royals need 74 runs in 36 balls with Samson being the key for the visitors.

Rajasthan Royals need 63 runs in 30 balls with Sanju Samson still at the crease and also on course to reach triple figures. DC, on the other hand, require wickets if they are to claim a win here.

What an important win for Delhi Capitals against Rajasthan Royals tonight. When it seemed like Sanju Samson would take the game away from DC, the latter fought back and have turned the tables around. Delhi are now on 10 points in the IPL points table and would require other results go their way if they are to qualify for the playoffs.

I think we had it in our hands, it was like 11-12 runs per over, it was achievable, these things happen in IPL. Yes, we are doing both the things fine, we will like to stick what the conditions demand, 220 was 10 runs extra to chase, the DC opener came out and did what he does, we still came back well. We have lost three games but all those games have been really tight, we have been playing remarkably well, we have to do some fine-tuning and we need to keep the momentum going. Yes and No actually, you have to give credit to someone like Stubbs who batted well against Sandeep, he scored 2-3 sixes extra against my best bowlers who are Yuzi Chahal and Sandeep Sharma. We have lost the game, we have to find out where we lost the game, we need to keep moving.

The way our bowlers executed at the back end was the main positive and it was really good to see. We will try to learn from every game. Even when we lose or win, we will keep our head down and keep moving forward. As always Kuldeep delivered which was great to see. It was close to par and at the same time we were thinking that if we can restrict them to 200 that would be fair and that was the thought process.

It is very important to bowl on a good length and that's the main challenge when I bowl in the death overs. I have played against him (Ferreira) in South Africa and I knew he was a back foot player and wanted to stay a little full and quick and got him out first ball. I bowled a couple of seam-up deliveries to read what the batters are doing. Just the length matters for me and that was the plan. Whenever we score 200-plus obviously lot of pressure on the bowler and it is also an opportunity to take wickets and I was trying to back my strengths and keep believing.

Delhi Capitals' 20-run win has kept their playoff hopes alive whereas RR have to wait for another game to seal their playoff berth.