IPL 2021 Live / Delhi Capitals Beat Mumbai Indians by 6 Wickets

Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 6 wickets in the 13th match of the IPL 2021 season. This is Delhi's second consecutive win. With this, the team has reached number-2 in the points table. Delhi has won 3 out of 4 matches so far. In this match, DC spinner Amit Mishra took 4 wickets. After this, opener Shikhar Dhawan made the team win while playing an innings of 44 runs.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Apr 20, 2021, 11:52 PM
Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 6 wickets in the 13th match of the IPL 2021 season. This is Delhi's second consecutive win. With this, the team has reached number-2 in the points table. Delhi has won 3 out of 4 matches so far. In this match, DC spinner Amit Mishra took 4 wickets. After this, opener Shikhar Dhawan made the team win while playing an innings of 44 runs.


Mumbai team won the toss and scored 137 runs after losing 9 wickets. In response, the Delhi team lost the match by losing 4 wickets in 19.1 overs, scoring 138 runs. Apart from Dhawan, Steve Smith scored 33 off 29 balls.

Dhawan and Smith's partnership won

The Delhi team also did not have a good start to chase the target of 138 runs. The team got its first setback on a score of 11.

Opener Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for 7 runs. Spinner Jayant Yadav caught him on his own ball.

From here, opener Shikhar Dhawan led the innings with Steve Smith, who came to bat at number three. Both took the score to 50 in the 8th over.

Dhawan and Smith shared a 53-run partnership for 47 balls for the second wicket. On the score of 64, the Delhi team received the second blow.

Kieron Pollard LBWs Steve Smith. But Dhawan kept one end and led the innings with all-rounder Lalit Yadav.

Dhawan and Lalit shared a 36-run partnership for 32 balls for the third wicket. The team got its third setback at 100 runs.

Spinner Rahul Chahar caught Dhawan out. Dhawan was 5 runs away from his fifty. The team was able to add only 15 runs that the fourth setback took place.

Captain Rishabh Pant was caught by Jaspreet Bumrah's ball after scoring 7 runs. From here, the team needed 22 runs to win in 3 overs.

The last time the avenged defeat in the final 4 matches were played between the two teams in the last season. Every time Mumbai defeated Delhi under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. The previous final was also played between the two, with Mumbai winning by 5 wickets. Delhi then played the final for the first time. Such a Delhi team has also avenged that defeat from Mumbai. Pant, captained for the first time in the IPL, has dominated Rohit, who has won the title for Mumbai 5 times.

Amit Mishra took 4 big wickets

Amit Mishra took 4 wickets at the turning track in Chennai. They hunted Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Ishaan Kishan.

Rohit missed out on Fifty, Ishaan-Suryakumar handled the innings

Mumbai Indians scored 137 runs losing 9 wickets. Captain Rohit scored the highest 44 runs off 30 balls. He hit 3 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from him, Ishaan scored 26 and Suryakumar Yadav scored 24 runs. Apart from Amit for Delhi, Marcus Stoinis, Avesh Khan, Kagiso Rabada and Lalit Yadav took 1-1 wickets.

Amit dominated Mumbai on the turning track

Mumbai did not have a good start. The team lost the first wicket for 9 runs. Quinton Dickock scored 2 runs and was caught out at Stoinis' ball.

From here, captain and opener Rohit Sharma kept one end and pushed the innings fast. The team scored 55 runs after losing one wicket in the Powerplay.

Rohit added 58 runs off 29 balls for the second wicket with Suryakumar. The Mumbai team suffered a second setback for 67 runs.

Avesh Khan had Suryakumar caught out by wicketkeeper Pant. The team was able to add 9 runs that Amit Mishra gave 2 shocks in one over.

In the 9th over of the innings, Amit caught Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya. Steve Smith took both catches on the boundary.

On the score of 81, spinner Lalit Yadav gave the 5th blow to the Mumbai team by giving clean bowling to Krunal Pandya.

Within 100 runs, 6 batsmen from Mumbai returned to the pavilion. Amit LBW Kieron Pollard on the 5th ball of the 12th over at the score of 84.

From here Ishaan Kishan teamed up with Jayant to advance the innings and reached the team score of 100 runs in the 15th over.

In the last 5 overs, Mumbai Indians scored 36 runs losing 3 wickets. Ishaan partnered 39 runs off 34 balls for the 7th wicket with Jayant.

One change in Mumbai team and 2 changes in Delhi's playing-11

This is Delhi Capitals' first match this season at Chepak Stadium, Chennai. At the same time, the Mumbai team has so far won 2 out of 3 matches on this ground. MI captain Rohit made a change in the playing-11. Jayant Yadav was given the chance to replace Adam Milne. At the same time, Delhi captain Rishabh Pant has made 2 changes in the team. He excluded Lukman Meriwala and Chris Woakes from the team. He was replaced by Shimron Hetmyer and Amit Mishra.

The foreign players included in both the teams, Captain Rohit in the playing-11 of Mumbai included foreign players Quinton Dickock, Kieron Pollard and Trent Boult. At the same time, the Delhi team consists of foreign players Steve Smith, Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer and Kagiso Rabada.