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A fine knock from new captain Faf du Plessis was not enough to prevent Royal Challengers Bangalore falling to a high-scoring five-wicket defeat in their opening Indian Premier League game on Sunday.
Mumbai Indians were stunned by Delhi Capitals in their first match of the 2022 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to keep up a rather unwanted record. It has now been 10 consecutive seasons that they have lost their opening match in the IPL. They last won the first match of the season in 2012, and have since never started their campaign with a win. DC on Saturday beat MI by four wickets, courtesy a 75-run partnership between Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel.
Delhi Capitals gave a sense of security to Kuldeep Yadav, something that brought the best out of the India wrist spinner, all-rounder Axar Patel said on Sunday. Having warmed the bench of his former franchise Kolkata Knight Riders for the last two seasons, Kuldeep made a match-winning debut for Delhi Capitals, returning with 3 for 18 to be adjudged the Player-of-the-Match in their IPL-15 opener at the Brabourne.
Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma was on Sunday fined Rs 12 lakh after his side maintained a slow over-rate in their IPL match against Delhi Capitals. MI lost the match against DC by four wickets.
After losing to Delhi Capitals (DC) on Sunday, Mumbai Indians (MI) have been fined for maintaining a slow over rate during Match 2 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. It was also the franchise's first offence of the season under IPL's Code of Conduct relating to minimum over rate offences, so captain Rohit Sharma has been fined Rs 12 lakhs.
Axar Patel and Lalit Yadav spoiled a party that seemed like it was headlined by Ishan Kishan for 35 overs of the match. With five overs of intelligent, clean and proactive batting, the duo took Delhi Capitals from 104/6 in 13.2 overs to 179/6, overhauling the 178-run target set by Mumbai Indians with 10 balls to spare on Sunday at the Brabourne stadium on Sunday afternoon. As Lalit and Axar walked off unbeaten on 48 off 38 and 38 off 17 respectively after completing a heist, MI skipper Rohit Sharma wore a bemused and shell-shocked look. MI haven’t won their opening match of the season since 2012. As it happened | Scorecard | Points TableAfter Capitals captain Rishabh Pant sent MI in to bat after winning the toss, Ishan batted all 20 overs screaming to the world he is worth all of Rs 15.25 cr Mumbai Indians spent on him. Every run of his unbeaten 48-ball 81-run knock had authority, maturity and flamboyance written all over it as MI posted 177/5. The Brabourne pitch had pace and true bounce for the batters to swing through the line. Yet, for most part of the match, Ishan looked like he was the only batter from either team to really get the measure of the pitch. His stay at the crease raised stock as one of India’s most potent T20 opening options.
Top Indian men’s and women’s team stars from across the country including Vishesh Bhriguvanshi (Arjuna Awardee and captain of the men’s national team), Anitha Pauldurai (Padma Shri), Geethu Anna Rahul (Arjuna Awardee), Raspreet Sidhu, Amritpal Singh, Palpreet Singh (ex-NBA player), Princepal Singh (ex-NBA player) and Stephy Nixon, to name just a few, were seen in action across 18 total franchises (12 men’s and 6 women’s). A post-season press conference was held here on Sunday, conducted by 3BL Commissioner Rohit Bakshi and Prerna Sharma, Director of YKBK Enterprise Pvt Ltd, which owns the ‘3BL’ property.
Wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert provided an explosive start for Delhi Capitals (DC) in their chase of 178 against Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday, but his march was brought to a halt by new MI spinner Murugan Ashwin in the fourth over with a lovely googly. Seifert had hit 21 off 11 deliveries with four boundaries to his name within the first three overs, and MI captain Rohit Sharma brought on a spinner inside the Powerplay.