IPL 2025: Rain comes to Delhi Capitals' rescue against Sunrisers Hyderabad

Delhi pocket one point after team posts below par 133/7; washout knocks SRH out of playoff race
HYDERABAD: Sunrisers Hyderabad were eliminated from the race for the playoffs after rain washed out their IPL match against Delhi Capitals here on Monday.

Electing to bowl first, Hyderabad bowlers, led by captain Pat Cummins (3/19), dished out their best performance with the ball this season restricting Capitals to 133/7. But their efforts counted for nothing as their chase was abandoned when it started raining during the inning break at 9.22 pm. After an hour of unrelenting rain, wet patches on the outfield forced the umpires to call off play at 11.10 pm.

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With one point from the washout, SRH moved to eighth with seven points while Capitals consolidated their fifth spot with 13. The visitors, with three games in hand, are very much in the race for a playoff berth.

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Earlier, the visitors, desperate for a win to stay in the race, were in deep trouble at 29/5 in the eighth over but Impact Player Ashutosh Sharma (41; 26b, 2x4, 3x6) and Tristan Stubbs (41*; 36b, 4x4) added 66 runs for the seventh wicket to revive their innings. Electing to bowl, Cummins got rid of Capitals’ top three batters with the first balls of his first three overs to reduce them to 15/3 in 4.1 overs.

He removed Karun Nair with the first ball of the innings. Faf du Plessis succumbed to a cross-batted shot. Cummins got his third when Abhishek Porel, trying to flick, ballooned for Kishan to take a brilliant running catch. All the three dismissals read: caught Kishan, bowled Cummins.

At the other end, Jaydev Unadkat too bowled tight overs on a two-paced wicket, giving away only seven runs in his two overs. Harshal Patel then got into the act, removing Axar Patel with a slower one. Axar ended up giving a catch to his counterpart Cummins. At the end of the Powerplay, Capitals were reduced to 26/4 with just three boundaries.




Unadkat was rewarded for his consistent line and length when KL Rahul edged him to wicketkeeper in the eighth over as Delhi slid to 29/5.

Vipraj Nigam welcomed spinner Zeeshan Ansari with the first six of the match in the 10th over, and then edged another for a boundary to take them to 47/5 at the half-way stage.

Nigam and Stubbs rotated strike with occasional boundaries. Both added 33 runs off 30 balls but lack of communication ended their partnership when Nigam was run out in the 13th over.

Ashutosh hit two sixes off Zeeshan in the 15th over and smacked consecutive boundaries off Harshal to take his side over the 100-run mark in the 17th over. Stubbs then hit two boundaries off Malinga in the next over.