DC vs RR / Delhi Capitals won the match in the super over, Stubbs gave victory by hitting a six

Delhi Capitals defeated Rajasthan Royals in the first Super Over of IPL 2025. Both teams were tied at 188 runs. Delhi achieved the target in four balls in the Super Over. Stubbs' six led to victory. With this win, Delhi reached the top of the points table.

DC vs RR: In the most exciting match of the 18th season of IPL 2025 played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday, Delhi Capitals defeated Rajasthan Royals in the Super Over. Both the teams scored 188-188 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, after which the result of the match came out of the Super Over. This is the first time since 2022 that a match in IPL was decided in the Super Over.

Delhi's explosive win in Super Over

Rajasthan Royals, batting first, scored just 11 runs in the Super Over. KL Rahul and Tristan Stubbs came out to bat for Delhi Capitals and they finished the match in just 4 balls. Stubbs hit the winning six to give Delhi two important points and take the team to the top of the points table. Delhi now has 10 points with 5 wins out of 6.

Excitement of the match: Account of both the innings

Delhi's innings: balanced batting, strong score

After losing the toss and batting first, Delhi had a good start. The pair of Jack Fraser McGurk and Abhishek Porel gave the team a quick start, but McGurk returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs. After this, Karun Nair was run out without opening the account. In this hour of crisis, KL Rahul and Porel took charge of the innings by making an important partnership of 63 runs.

After the innings of Rahul (38) and Porel (49), captain Axar Patel played an aggressive innings of 34 runs. In the last overs, the fast innings of Tristan Stubbs (34*) and Ashutosh (15*) took Delhi to 188 runs. For Rajasthan, Jofra Archer took the maximum of 2 wickets, while Teekshna and Hasranga got 1-1 success.

Rajasthan's innings: Great start, but the team missed in the end

Rajasthan's start was very good. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Nitish Rana put the team in a strong position by playing innings of 56 and 53 runs respectively. Captain Sanju Samson also scored 31 runs, but got injured in the middle and retired hurt. However, Delhi bowlers made a great comeback in the last overs.

In the last over, Mitchell Starc performed brilliantly and defended 9 runs and tied the match. Rajasthan could only score 188 runs for 4 wickets in the last 20 overs. Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Mitchell Starc got 1-1 wickets from Delhi.

Rajasthan's mistake in the super over

Rajasthan's batting faltered in the super over. The team lost two wickets before playing six balls and could score only 11 runs. This target seemed easy to Delhi and it achieved this target in four balls without any pressure.

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