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‘Shotmaking wasn’t that easy’: Orange Cap holder Rohit Sharma after 35-run innings vs DC | Cricket News

‘Shotmaking wasn’t that easy’: Orange Cap holder Rohit Sharma after 35-run innings vs DC | Cricket News

3 min readUpdated: Apr 4, 2026 05:57 PM IST Current Orange Cap holder Rohit Sharma scored a 26-ball 35 runs in the match against Delhi Capitals on Saturday and opened up about his time in the middle at the post-innings chat. Rohit’s innings along with stand-in skipper Suryakumar Yadav’s 51 helped MI post a decent 162/6 vs DC. “Looks like a pretty slow wicket. You just got to get in and, bide your time in and then try and play some shots because it’s not easy, but I thought we managed to get a decent score on the board. Hopefully, we can try and squeeze them in the first six, try and get some wickets up front and then see where the game goes,” Rohit said. “As you saw in the first innings, you know, shotmaking wasn’t that easy. We’ve got bowlers who can exploit that and try and, like I said, try and squeeze them in the first six. If you can manage to do that in the first six, then, we are pretty …

A Suryakumar Yadav knock of two parts, restrained at first before breaking free | Ipl News

A Suryakumar Yadav knock of two parts, restrained at first before breaking free | Ipl News

Synopsis: Bumrah-Santner pair’s song of fire and ice, Surya-Naman’s death-metal riffs turn out to be the end notes for Delhi Capitals. The capacity to produce tournament-defining moments has been a hallmark of Mumbai Indians’ IPL supremacy. Assured of the knockouts, they would reflect on the last two overs of their innings on a sluggish track, wherein Suryakumar Yadav and Naman Dhir scythed 47 runs off 12 balls to reverse the game’s tide irreversibly to their side. Entailed a 59-run cruise, after Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell Santner tightened the noose on Delhi Capitals’ necks, ending their playoff ambitions. Death metal Naman Dhir walks with brisk, purposeful strides, as though the dugout was a prison he had escaped. A largely under-utilised batting all-rounder, he has offered only fits and flashes of his exhilarating stroke-making. But late in the Mumbai Indians’ innings, with the home-side praying for an injection of pace, he strode in with brisk, purposeful strides and rattled out 24 off only eight balls, in the company of Suryakumar Yadav, himself hitting violent riffs at the …

How Delhi Capitals’ collapse against Mumbai Indians triggered contrasting campaigns | Cricket News

How Delhi Capitals’ collapse against Mumbai Indians triggered contrasting campaigns | Cricket News

Even as Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill were plundering the Delhi Capitals’ attack, the body language of the fielders changed. The season that had started so brightly for them was spinning out of their control. It was their best start ever in the IPL, winning the first four games. But since then, their downward spiral has left them facing the scenario of not even qualifying for the playoffs. It was the game against the Mumbai Indians on April 13 in Delhi that had flipped the narratives for both sides in the campaign. At that stage, Delhi were yet to lose a game, and Mumbai had a solitary win from five games. Hardik Pandya’s side defending 205 looked uncomfortable. Karun Nair’s pristine 39-ball 89 was getting under the skin of Mumbai’s ace bowler Jasprit Bumrah. Then came a pearler from Mitchell Santner – a delivery that spun to hit Nair’s off stump. But the game was still in control, but the Capitals shot themselves in the foot, losing seven wickets for 58 runs, including three runouts. …

Karn Sharma reveals turning point in Delhi Capitals’ chase against Mumbai Indians: ‘After Karun got out…’ | Ipl News

Karn Sharma reveals turning point in Delhi Capitals’ chase against Mumbai Indians: ‘After Karun got out…’ | Ipl News

Delhi Capitals were right on the course of winning the game against the Mumbai Indians on Sunday at 135/2 chasing 205 runs with Karun Nair batting superbly. However, Kiwi spinner Mitchell Santner would pick up the wicket of 89 after Nair would score 40-ball 89 runs. At this point in the game Capitals were fairly ahead. But what unfolded was unprecedented. The Capitals collapsed losing seven wickets for 58 runs. “After Karun got out, their momentum broke. And after that, we got two or three wickets quickly. That changed the game,” observed Man of the Match Karn Sharma after the game. “Obviously, KL Rahul is a big name and he had finished the game for them (against Royal Challengers Bengaluru) in the last match. But all the wickets were important for us at that time. Karn has been warming the bench for Mumbai this season so far and has got his first opportunity against the Capitals. It was his spell (4-0-36-3) in the middle overs which helped Mumbai to make possible the improbable. “Feels very …

DC vs MI: Karn Sharma’s instant impact brings Mumbai Indians back on winning track in Delhi | Ipl News

DC vs MI: Karn Sharma’s instant impact brings Mumbai Indians back on winning track in Delhi | Ipl News

A fine innings from Karun Nair and a fine spell from Kuldeep were not enough as Delhi Capitals implode to lose to Mumbai Indians by 12 runs in their first match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. In the very first game of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) in New Delhi, there was an exhibition of big hitting, some exceptional spin bowling, a stream of India stars, and a topsy-turvy thriller that sat on a knife-edge for most of its running time. It will be a hard one to top. The jubilant celebrations at the end were proof of how much this victory meant to the Mumbai Indians. On a bad run of form, they came into this match against the only unbeaten side so far in the tournament and rode the punches they took, before seizing the important moments in the end as Delhi collapsed to hand the five-time champs a 12-run victory at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Sunday. Story continues below this ad Woeful run goes on Rohit Sharma would hit …

Delhi Capitals Head Coach emphasises ‘no mental block’ after losing third WPL final in a row | Cricket News

Delhi Capitals Head Coach emphasises ‘no mental block’ after losing third WPL final in a row | Cricket News

On Saturday Mumbai Indians clinched their second Women’s Premier League title and on the contrary, Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals have now lost the third WPL final in a row. However, Head Coach Jonathan Batty would emphasize that there is no mental blockage and would take a more jovial route in the press conference after the loss and would give the reason for the defeat as “the opposition got more runs than we did!” “The players were up for it, they were fine and I think there was no mental block at all. But it’s just full credit to the opposition, they outplayed us and deserved to win the game” Batty would say. ” It will take time to think through what went wrong,” Batty said. “Two great quality teams going head-to-head and it was such a tight game. To lose by eight runs, which is two boundaries, we lost it by two balls in the end. That game can go either way from there. I don’t think there was a common denominator. You always have …

Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 8-runs to clinch their second WPL title | Cricket News

Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 8-runs to clinch their second WPL title | Cricket News

Harmanpreet Kaur led Mumbai Indians to beat Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals by eight runs to win the second Women’s Premier League title. Chasing 150 runs in the final Delhi could only manage 141/9 from their quota of 20 overs. Nat Sciver-Brunt was the pick of the bowlers for Mumbai with three wickets. Meanwhile Marziana Kapp was the top scorer for Capitals in the chase. Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur saved her best for the big day with a scintillating 44-ball 66 but Delhi Capitals did well enough to restrict Mumbai Indians to a fighting 149 for 7. Marizanne Kapp (2/11 in 4 overs) was the pick of the DC bowlers while left-arm spinners Shree Charani (2/43 in 4 overs) and Jess Jonassen (2/26 in 3 overs) also got crucial wickets. Story continues below this ad Put in to bat, MI started on a sedate note, courtesy a fine Powerplay spell by Kapp as the home side were just 22 for 2 after seven overs.But, Harmanpreet effortlessly shifted gears from the onset, starting with a short-arm swat pull …

Meg Lanning’s DC go top with perfect peformance

Meg Lanning’s DC go top with perfect peformance

There was a nice embrace between Meg Lanning and Shabnim Ismail at the end of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) match in Bengaluru. When Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals met earlier in the season, in the battle of retired international superstars it was the South African pacer who looked sharper and dismissed the DC captain with a peach. But on Friday, Lanning stamped her class, taking down Ismail with an array of boundaries, including a stunning on-drive, as DC went on to beat MI in a one-sided contest to go top of the table. “I’ve played a lot against her and she’s a great competitor I love coming up against her. So yeah, it was nice to get a couple away today,” Lanning said after the match. It was just one of the many things that went her way. The ‘win-toss-win-match’ trend continued as MI were asked to bat and never got going, managing just 123/9. The run-chase was then broken open early by Lanning and Shafali Verma – the WPL’s most prolific duo – …

Jake Fraser-McGurk sinks Mumbai with a thunderous 27-ball 84 in IPL | Ipl News

Synopsis: Jake Fraser-McGurk’s stunning knock and Rasikh Salam’s excellent death bowling overpowered Tilak Varma’s valiant knock in another run-fest at the Feroz Shah Kotla. Perhaps, only a monkey can stop Jake Fraser-McGurk. Like it did in the U-19 world cup in South Africa in 2020 when he was sent back home ahead of a clash against India. The story goes that on a trip to a nature reserve in Kimberly, he got too close to a monkey who wasn’t pleased with the company and scratched his face. In India, he has stayed away from the simians and has got close to just one thing every ball: try to smash a boundary, preferably a six. He slammed Hardik Pandya and Nuwan Thushara in his 27-ball 84, but even Jasprit Bumrah wasn’t spared. Two batsmen have captured the post-modern T20 batting perfectly this IPL: Fraser-McGurk and Heinrich Klassen. The commonality is the absence of footwork and the focus on knee-flex, solid base, supreme body positioning with balance, and the wondrous uninhibited swing of the bat. Jake Fraser-McGurk’s …

MI vs DC: Just Jasprit things as Bumrah produces a special yorker, Rohit vs Ishant in battle of Sharmas and more | Ipl News

Just Jassi things That Jasprit Bumrah bowls a mean yorker is no surprise. That Jasprit Bumrah continues to dismiss even well-set batters who know full well that a mean yorker is always around the corner, is the stuff of genius. Brought back into the attack when Delhi were stitching together a decent partnership, Bumrah produced one of those heat-seeking missiles from his armory. It’s like his brain has a radar and the ball is programmed to hit the base of the stumps when he demands it to. Shaw was batting on 66 off 39 balls, and was starting to find the gaps more regularly. But the gap Bumrah needed was just millimeters between the bottom of the bat and in front of the stumps. The ball was angled in, nearly took Shaw’s toe off his backfoot, then completely took the leg stump off the ground. And in complete contrast to the delivery, as per usual, the celebration was once more just a leap and a gentle smile. Battle of the Sharmas Rohit Sharma and Ishant …