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IPL 2025 Playoffs Scenarios: Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 8 wickets. Delhi’s team has reached very close to the IPL playoffs with this victory.
IPL 2025: Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 8 wickets. (PTI)
Highlights
- Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 8 wickets.
- This is the sixth win of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025.
- KL Rahul scored 57 and Abhishek Porel scored 51 runs.
New Delhi. The Delhi Capitals (DC) team has reached very close to the IPL playoffs by defeating Lucknow Supergiants (LSG). Akshar Patel’s team on Tuesday entered and defeated Lucknow Supergiants into his house. Delhi stopped Lucknow at the first 159/6 score. After this, he scored 161 runs losing 2 wickets in 17.5 overs. This is the sixth win of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025. This is the fourth defeat of Lucknow Supergiants.
The victory of Delhi Capitals on Lucknow Supergiants has made the IPL playoff race more interesting. After this victory, Delhi Capitals have got 12 points from 6 wins in 8 matches. Now the IPL point table of Delhi and Gujarat Titans has an equal 12-12 points. After these two teams, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Supergiants have 10-10 points. Bangalore is third, Punjab Kings fourth and Lucknow at number five on the basis of better runrate. These five teams are also a difference that Lucknow Supergiants have played their 9 matches, the remaining four teams have played 8-8 matches.
Rahul-Parel and Mukesh victory heroes
The victory of Delhi Capitals was the hero Mukesh Kumar (4 wickets), KL Rahul and Abhishek Porel. Mukesh took two wickets in one over twice in the match. His double attack stopped Lucknow Supergiants from making a big score. After this, when the turn of batting came, KL Rahul (57) and Abhishek Porel (51) took the front. In the first half of Delhi’s innings, Abhishek placed the Lucknow bowlers on the backfoot. When Abhishek was out, Rahul took the baton from him. Captain Akshar Patel also played an excellent innings of 34 runs.
KL Rahul’s revenge complete
This victory of Delhi is also being seen as instead of KL Rahul. KL Rahul was the captain of LSG for three years before this season. In the last season, LSG owners Sanjeev Goenka and KL Rahul’s debate on the field had a lot of discussion. It was believed that Goenka had misbehaved with Rahul on the field. After this KL Rahul was released from the team. KL never said anything on all this issue but his fans were always upset with Goenka.
