IPL 2022, Delhi Capitals vs Punjab Kings Highlights: Warner, Shaw help Delhi notch up emphatic 9-wicket win over Punjab

Delhi Capitals against Punjab Kings. With Tim Seifert becoming the sixth member in three days from the Capitals contingent testing positive for Covid-19 in the morning, the players waited in their hotel rooms till the last hour, uncertain if the match would go ahead while their opponents were already at the venue. As it happened | Scorecard | Points TableAs the remaining members returned negative, just 15 players and a handful of support staff were allowed to go to Brabourne stadium. Languishing at eighth spot in the points table, confined to hotel rooms and the team engulfed in uncertainty, coach Ricky Ponting and captain Rishabh Pant turned up at the venue, delivered strong speeches revolving around 'control the controllable' and galvanized the team. The team had found its purpose. Capitals may have been the wounded team when they reached the venue but when they left the stadium, they had brutally scarred Punjab Kings. They dismissed Punjab for a paltry 115 and then chased down the target in 10.3 overs with nine wickets to spare. After electing to bowl first, Pant's bowlers literally delivered the match as a souvenir of the team's character. The Capitals bowlers, led by the guile of Axar Patel, were so accurate that It never appeared this one was the same pitch on which over 400 runs were scored a couple of nights ago.

However, openers David Warner and Prithvi Shaw - fast becoming the most ominous opening partnership in this IPL - did show why so many runs were scored the other night as they put on 83 in 6.3 overs. Shaw fell for a 20-ball 41 while slog-sweeping Rahul Chahar but not before the duo had hammered 81 runs in the first six overs making a mockery of a bowling attack led by Kagiso Rabada. Warner, with his