IPL 2024: DC vs GT, Match 40
- Amidst a tough season of IPL, Delhi Capitals benched David Warner
- Two sharp catches at deep square leg by Noor Ahmad left DC down to 36/2 in the PowerPlay
- Rashid Khan took a sharp catch too as DC were down to 44/3 in the sixth over - with all the wickets going to Sandeep Warrier
- Axar Patel, promoted to bat at No.3, counter-attacked in the company of his captain
- Rishabh Pant played his shots through the middle too as they took on the spin pair of Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmad
- Axar hit five fours and four sixes in his 43-ball knock of 66
- Pant and Axar added 113 off 68 deliveries
- Tristan Stubbs arrived and took on R Sai Kishore, smashing him for 22 runs in the 19th over
- Rishabh Pant went after Mohit Sharma in the 20th, taking 31 off it. With that, Mohit finished with the most expensive bowling figures in IPL history - 0 for 73
- Pant finished with an unbeaten 88 off 43 balls - an innings laced with 5 fours and 8 sixes
- Wriddhiman Saha gave GT a fast start despite Shubman Gill's early exit
- Jake-Fraser McGurk took a fabulous catch to dismiss Azmatullah Omarzai in the PowerPlay
- R Sai Sudharsan blazed away in the PowerPlay and beyond it to keep GT on course in chase
- Rasikh Salam picked two important wickets in the middle-overs to dent GT
- David Miller hit a 23-ball 55 to put GT back in the hunt
- Rashid Khan threw his bat around to give GT some hope...
- But Mukesh Kumar did enough to eke out a four-run win in the final over