DC vs MI | Player Ratings - Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant fail as Delhi Capitals lose to Mumbai Indians by 40 runs at Kotla

04/18/2019

It was another day of sudden collapse for Delhi Capitals as after the top-three failed to get going, the result became a writing on the wall and eventually, they lost by 40 runs. Amidst the failures, Axar Patel and Ishant Sharma were the two knights in shining armour for the Shreyas Iyer-led team.

Prithvi Shaw (2.5/10): A huge thing of being an opener is to carry the responsibility while ensuring that the powerplay benefit was taken nicely. It would be hard to understand why Shaw is not understanding the same and a careless mishit resulting in Hardik Pandya latching onto a skier at long-on after scoring 20 off 24 balls.

Shikhar Dhawan (4/10): The Delhite, after playing out a few cautious deliveries, was off to a good start with the bat, and made up for Prithvi Shaw’s slow start. But Rahul Chahar’s leg-break was way too difficult for him to get a hold of. Dhawan’s mediocre returns of 35 runs seemed a very good one considering the teams are falling like a pack of cards.

Colin Munro (2/10): It is never a hyperbole to call Colin Munro as one of the finest T20 cricketers of the generation, but in the IPL, he is an under-performer. When Krunal Pandya was bowling to him, he probably had that in mind and Munro was dismissed in a fashion that he would probably never want to revisit again.

Shreyas Iyer (2/10): The basic problem with Iyer is he gets carried away very soon and understanding the situation was beyond his realm of imagination. With the top-three back in the hut, the situation demanded him to be there and dictate the course of the action, but Iyer chose to take the risk and was castled by Rahul Chahar for 3 off 6 balls.

Rishabh Pant (2/10): Was a good delivery? Probably yes. Was it a good shot? Not really. Away from his body, on the up and just like that, he was dismissed to a Bumrah for 7 off 11. Don’t want to sound repetitive, but such is Delhi Capitals’ approach to the game that it was never too long that they would go down to the bottom half of the table.

Axar Patel (7/10): Patel seemed to be the only among all the batsmen, who seemed to have the intent to go for a kill even though the chips were down and Delhi’s hopes were almost damned. His 26 off 23, though, could delay the inevitable as a familiar Delhi collapse brought them to the losing ways yet again. He was pretty effective with the ball as well, turning it both ways and ending up with an economy rate of 4.25.

Chris Morris (1/10): On a day, Chris Morris was excluded from the World Cup squad, he ensured to put up a performance befitting the decision. After giving away 16 runs to Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock in the first over, he hardly made any changes to his length and proved to be Delhi’s worst bowler of the night. He had a chance to redeem himself by contributing with the bat, but that remained largely silent.

Keemo Paul (2.5/10): Paul is a bowler more reliant on his slower delivery variations and the problem is it is not always the best option. A wicket, which was considerably in the slower side, Paul approached his bowling as a game of a snake and ladder and each time, de Kock or Hardik Pandya stepped out, he kept on looking at the sky for the course of the ball. 37 runs off 3 overs moved the momentum in Mumbai Indians favour.

Kagiso Rabada (5/10): Notwithstanding a couple of wickets Rabada picked up in the, he was not the best bowler for Delhi tonight. Instead of nailing down yorkers to a rampant Hardik Pandya, the South African was more interested in bowling full, which resulted in his economy rate touching almost 10 an over.

Amit Mishra (8/10): Amit Mishra has just gone Desi. Well, he has always been, but by combing his hair to one side to sport a gentlemanly look in the age of tattoos and modern hairstyles need some serious commitment. However, draw a parallel and you will see why he did it. The googly was as effective as it has ever been and the conventional leg-break that scalped Rohit Sharma’s wicket would make Shane Warne proud. Congratulations Mishy on the 150th IPL wicket. Now, go for a double century.

Ishant Sharma (7/10): The inexplicable loss of form, the untimely illness and the emergence of Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar may have well slammed the door for India’s limited-overs team, but Ishant is proving in this IPL that he has it to essay the kind of role Zaheer Khan used to don towards the fag end of his career. Bowling on a good length, he ensured that Mumbai didn’t get off to a good start and by doing that, he had let the steam be with Delhi Capitals.