A topsy-turvy game that ended in the favour of Delhi Capitals, as they toppled the table-toppers Gujarat Titans by a nervy margin of 5 runs in the match number 44 of Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) at Ahmedabad. With this DC registered their first win over GT in IPL

David Warner led Delhi won the toss and opted to bat first. DC had a horrid start to the game as Mohammed Shami ran through their batters in the powerplay with his fiery bowling display. Shami registered his best IPL figures of 4/11 in 4 overs to leave DC in trouble at 23/5 inside five overs. Axar Patel and Aman Hakim Khan led the recovery for the Capitals by adding a steady 50 runs partnership for the sixth wicket.

Mohit Sharma, then broke the partnership, as Axar Patel departed for well-paced 30-ball 27 runs with the scorecard reading 73/6 in 14 overs. Ripal Patel then partnered with Aman Khan as the duo kept the scorecard ticking with some glorious shots. Meanwhile, Aman Khan rose to his maiden IPL fifty in a grand fashion.

13-ball 23 run cameo at the end from Ripal Patel helped DC post a decent total of 130/8 in 20 overs. For GT, Other than Shami’s four wickets, Mohit Sharma picked two wickets and Rashid Khan picked one wicket. Chasing 131, top-order batters did not live up the expectations as they succumbed to Delhi bowlers’ dominance in the powerplay and were left reeling at 26/3 at the close of fifth over.

Just after the powerplay got over, Kuldeep Yadav cleaned up David Miller for a duck with a peach of a delivery, with this GT looked even more trouble at 32/4. Skipper Hardik Pandya and Abhinav led the recovery with composed partnership, the duo added 62 runs for the fifth wicket, Pandya rose up to his 10^th IPL fifty in the course of the partnership.

Khaleel Ahmed then picked up Abhinav Manohar in the 18^th over. With 30 to get in 9 balls, Rahul Tewatia went bonkers against the South African-pacer Anrich Nortje, hitting him for three consecutive sixes, reducing the equation to 12 runs in the last over, Ishant Sharma held on the nerve and defended beautifully to help DC register their first win over GT by margin of 5 runs.

Meanwhile let us look at the stats and numbers from game number 44 between GT and DC, IPL 2023

2 -Mohammed Shami became the second bowler alongside Deepak Chahar to pick 4 wickets in powerplay in IPL.

131 – Delhi has defended the target of 131 against GT, this is the lowest target defended by DC in the history of IPL bettering their previous best of 145 against Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2023.

50 -Anrich Nortje completed 50 wickets in IPL.

100 -Mohit Sharma completed 100 wickets in IPL.

4/11 -Mohammed Shami registered his best bowling figure of 4/11 in IP against DC, bettering his previous best of 3/15 which came against the same opposition in 2020.

3 -Wriddhiman Saha became (102) the third wicket keeper to complete 100 dismissals in IPL. MS Dhoni (178) and Dinesh Karthik (169) are the other two players to achieve this feat.

12 -Mohammed Shami has taken 12 wickets in powerplay in IPL 2023, which is the highest this season surpassing Mohammed Siraj’s tally of 8.

1 -Delhi Registered their first win over GT in IPL.

2 -This is the second time GT is losing a match while chasing IPL, they have won 12/14 games while chasing.

1 -Delhi Capitals defended the target of 131 against Gujarat, this is the lowest total defended in IPL at Narendra Modi Stadium, previously Sunrisers defended 135 against Rajasthan Royals way back in 2014.

2 -Target of 131 defended by Defended by Delhi Capitals in second in the list of targets defended in IPL 2023, RCB defended 127 against LSG in the previous game