Delhi: The 60th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 was played between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Gujarat Titans (GT) today. In this important match, Delhi, after losing the toss, batted first and performed brilliantly and set a big target of 200 runs in front of Gujarat, which GT won by 10 wickets and qualified for the play-off.
Gujarat’s innings
The Gujarat Titans performed brilliantly in the match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday and defeated Delhi Capitals by 10 wickets and qualified for the playoffs.
Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill’s historical opening partnership played an important role in this victory. Both batsmen batted in a great way and brought the team to the target. Shubman Gill 93 (53) and Sai Sudarshan 108 (61) remained unbeaten. With this victory, the Gujarat team reached the first position with the 9th win in the end table.
Earlier, Delhi Capitals scored 199 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs thanks to KL Rahul’s brilliant century innings, but the Gujarat opening pair scored 205 runs, crossing this target very easily and did not lose a single wicket.
With this victory of Gujarat, teams from Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings have also got playoff tickets. Now the struggle for fourth place continues.
Delhi’s innings
Delhi’s innings did not start well. Faf Duplecy returned to the pavilion after scoring only 5 runs. He was dismissed by Arshad Khan in the fourth over. After this, opener KL Rahul gradually set his innings and then batted in an aggressive manner.
Rahul, along with Abhishek Porel, scored 90 runs for the second wicket, Poreel scored 19 runs and Sai Kishore dismissed him in the 12th over. This partnership stabilized Delhi’s innings and carried forward the scoreboard.
Famous Krishna bowling
After Porel’s dismissal, Rahul got the support of captain Akshar Patel. Together, both of them added 45 runs for the third wicket. Akshar Patel scored 25 runs and became the victim of Krishna in the 17th over.
In the last overs, KL Rahul and Triston Stabs scored at a fast pace. The two had an unbeaten partnership of 48 runs for the fourth wicket. Stabs scored 21 runs in just 10 balls which included 2 magnificent sixes.
KL Rahul’s fifth century
KL Rahul batted tremendously in this match and scored an unbeaten 112 off 65 balls. He hit 14 fours and 4 sixes in his innings. This was the fifth century of his IPL career and now he has moved to fourth place in the list of players scoring the most centuries in the league. At the same time, Arshad Khan, famous Krishna and Sai Kishore took one wicket each for Gujarat.
This is the second confrontation between the two teams in the match season. In the last match, Gujarat defeated Delhi by 7 wickets. Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, would like to win this match and confirm their place in the playoffs. The team has won 8 out of 11 matches so far and the points are second in the table with 16 points.
Playing XI of both teams
| Gujarat Titans (Playing XI) | Delhi Capitals (Playing XI) |
|---|---|
| Shubman Gill (Captain) | Faf du Plessis |
| Jose Butler (wicketkeeper) | Abhishek Porel |
| Sherfen Rutherford | Sameer Rizvi |
| Shahrukh Khan | KL Rahul (wicketkeeper) |
| Rahul Tewatia | Akshar Patel (Captain) |
| Rashid Khan | Triston Stabs |
| Kagiso rabada | Ashutosh Sharma |
| Arshad Khan | Vipraj corporation |
| R. Sai Kishore | Kuldeep Yadav |
| Mohammad Siraj | T natarajan |
| Famous Krishna | Mustafizur Rahman |
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